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PUBLIC MARKS from solrac with tags linux & applications

July 2010

Creates a whole new painting tool for GIMP

The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is a robust application for editing and manipulating digital images. In this article, you will learn how to get started with the GIMP code, how to build the project from the Git repositories, and how to find your way around the code tree. And you will build an example application that creates a whole new painting tool for the program.

November 2009

Linux app migration from Windows, Solaris, & OS2

Here's some help to port your applications from Windows, Solaris, and OS/2 to run natively on Linux on x86-based systems. The information here also covers porting from Windows to Java and porting and migrating x86-based Linux apps to Linux on multiple other hardware platforms.

Chiphopper simplifies Linux porting of C/C++ apps

With Chiphopper you get significant application porting cost reductions.Chiphopper provides tools to scrub their C/C++ code for portability prior to porting to System p, System i, or System z. There are tools for C and C++ applications as well as new test scripts for Perl and Python.