I am not completely sure but I think Ubuntu studio might have it. I use Ultimate edition 2.7 which comes with gimp 2.6.8 but was easily updated to 2.6.10 through my update manager.
Hope this helps

On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:47:18 +0200, Gino D wrote:

Among the major Linux distros available on Live CD, where can I find the latest stable version of GIMP pre-installed? I have already tried the most recent releases of both Ubuntu and Fedora, but to my great surprise neither of them has got GIMP pre-installed.

PCLinuxOS currently has 2.6.9 in the live CD. See http://www.pclinuxos.com/?page_id=180

The latest ISOs with 2.6.10 are due shortly.

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:38 PM, N92 wrote:

I am not completely sure but I think Ubuntu studio might have it. I use Ultimate edition 2.7 which comes with gimp 2.6.8 but was easily updated to 2.6.10 through my update manager.

Hope this helps

-- N92 (via gimpusers.com)

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On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Martin Goose wrote:

PCLinuxOS currently has 2.6.9 in the live CD. See http://www.pclinuxos.com/?page_id=180

The latest ISOs with 2.6.10 are due shortly.

-- Martin Goose

Thanks to both of you, N92 and Martin, for your replies.

If someone else knows some other Linux Distros endowed with a recent GIMP release, please do not hesitate to tell me.

So long.

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Two more pre-installed GIMP distros, One big, one small

First the big one, this is a very active distro:

Fedora 13 Spins has a "Design Suite" Live CD with these:

# agave, for automatically generating color schemes. # blender, for 3D modeling, animation, rendering and post-production # The GIMP, a raster graphics editor # Inkscape, a vector graphics editor # shotwell for managing photographs
# scribus for professional-quality document layout # xournal, a sketching and document annotation program for tablet PCs # dia, for creating flowcharts and diagrams +more

download here:

http://spins.fedoraproject.org/design/#downloads

The other is distro is limping but has GIMP and Inkscape: DreamLinux 3.5
download here:

http://www.dreamlinux.com.br/download.html

DreamLinux has a strong Macintosh look Nice looking. Runs only on my older desktop from '06 The Fedora version looks & runs really nice on my new laptop.

Seems all versions have mouse issues for me. I need a fix to slow down the acceleration of a BlueTrack Microsoft Mice, both wired & wireless have the problem. I've been trying to find a fix in Fedora 13 Live CD, I am not installing it just yet if ever. That's why I came here. I wonder how Ultimate is with my mouse? Ubuntu LiveCD has fixes for mice speeds via the terminal. Can't seem to find such a simple method with other Live distros.

One More Distro!

Linux Mint 9 has GIMP in the Live CD

And happily it's a Ubuntu based so the "too-speedy-mouse-fix" via the terminal works in LiveCD too. The GUI is not flexible enough with Blue Track Microsoft mice, just google for info on these Ubuntu terminal commands>

sudo -s

root privileges are required

xinput --list --short

Gives device id list. The next is my fix, so the values may vary for you:

xinput --set-prop "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" 3 xinput --set-prop "Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration" 5

YOU NEED A SANE MOUSE FOR THE GIMP !

(I wish I could edit my posts)

Last post should read

xinput --set-prop ("device name" or id# here) "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" 3 xinput --set-prop ("device name" or id# here) "Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration" 5

On Thursday 07 October 2010, Gino D wrote:

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Mike_tn wrote:

One More Distro!

Linux Mint 9 has GIMP in the Live CD

Good to know. So far, I wrongly thought that Mint Live CD, for the reason of being Ubuntu-based, would be devoid of GIMP.

Mike_tn, since you seem to be very knowledgeable about the content of various Linux distros, by chance do you know whether Mandriva and OpenSUSE nowadays hold the latest stable version of GIMP or not?

http://distrowatch.com/

Choose the distro you are interested in, 1/2 way down the page, the far left column shows the most recent version of a tracked package, (lots of packages are followed), the other columns show what version of the program shipped with which version of the distro

most major distrows provide fairly up to date versions of major programs via their package management systems. I am using GIMP 2.6.11 on opensuse 11.3. It is also not terribly dificult to compile gimp from source.

see ya, dh