Tux Paint
Open Source Drawing Software for Children

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Tux Paint is completely free software, released as “Open Source” software, under the provisions of the GNU General Public License (GPL). This means you may download it and install it on as many machines as you wish, copy it for friends and family, and give it to your local schools. In fact, we encourage this!

Tux Paint runs on most systems, but check the Requirements if you're unsure whether your system can support it.

Pick which version of Tux Paint you wish to download:

Microsoft Windows

Windows XP, 2000, Vista
Users of Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000 can download and run this simple installer application to get the full version of Tux Paint.
(A stand-alone ZIP-file version is available, as well.)
Windows 95, 98, ME
Users of Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows ME, can download and run this simple installer application to get a Tux Paint.
Note: Version 0.9.18 will be available for Windows 95, 98 and ME soon!

Apple Mac OS X

Mac OS X
Apple Macintosh owners running OS X can download Tux Paint here.

Linux

Debian GNU/Linux Packages
Debian users can simply download pre-compiled Tux Paint packages for their release and architecture from their preferred Debian archive mirror. Backports of recent versions of Tux Paint for older Debian releases are also provided through backports.org.
Ubuntu Linux Packages
Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04 users can download pre-compiled Tux Paint packages for their release and architecture from Launchpad.
RPM Linux Packages
Users of Linux distributions based on the RPM package format (e.g., Red Hat, Mandrake, etc.) can download builds of Tux Paint for Intel x86 architecture (i386) or source-code in RPM format.
Slackware Linux Packages
Slackware users can download pre-compiled Tux Paint packages for Intel x86 systems.
OLPC XO-1 Activity
Owners of the One Laptop per Child "XO-1" can download a build of Tux Paint that runs on their device.

BSD

FreeBSD Packages
FreeBSD users can learn about the FreeBSD port of Tux Paint.
NetBSD Packages
NetBSD users can learn about the NetBSD packages for Tux Paint.

Handheld Devices

Zaurus Packages
Owners of Sharp Zaurus PDAs capable of displaying 640x480 graphics can install Tux Paint packages.
Nokia 770/800 Packages
Owners of the Nokia 770 internet tablet can download Tux Paint.

Other

BeOS
BeOS users can download and install Tux Paint and necessary libraries here.
OS/2
OS/2 users can download pre-compiled Tux Paint for OS/2 systems.
MacOS
Unfortunately, Tux Paint hasn’t been tested on Apple’s MacOS (“Classic”). If you’d like to try, please grab the source and send us your results!

Source-code
Other Linux and Unix users can download the source-code to compile and install Tux Paint. (Developers can get the latest from the CVS source-code repository.)
Fonts
Tux Paint users who use languages requiring their own fonts can download pre-packaged TrueType Fonts for Tux Paint.
Icons
Alternative icons for Tux Paint.
CDROM for Windows, Mac OS X & Linux
Tux Paint 0.9.16 for Windows, Mac OS X and Red Hat and Fedora CORE Linux on CDROM is available from CaféPress. (The ISO disc image can be downloaded, as well.).
Note: This is an older version, from October 2006.