Tux Paint
Tux Paint: Open Source Drawing Software for Children


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Abstract Fishing
By: Claire

Tux Paint is free computer art software for children.
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Random review:
“A program like this will fuel creativity and experimentation. Allowing children to be creative in a risk free atmosphere, such as with Tux Paint, will only increase and promote artistic and creative confidence.” — 'Clazarou', November 2005

Download - Debian Linux

Debian GNU/Linux Packages

July 25, 2007 — Users of the stable Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 'Etch' release can now obtain backports of all of the latest Tux Paint releases at backports.org. Just follow the instructions documented there. 'Etch' also contains older releases of these packages if you prefer to only use packages from the official archive.

July 4, 2007 — Users of the unstable 'Sid' or testing 'Lenny' branches can obtain the latest releases of tuxpaint and tuxpaint-data (0.9.17), tuxpaint-stamps-default (2007-07-01) and tuxpaint-config (0.0.8) at their preferred official Debian mirror.

Package links at packages.debian.org:

— Ben Armstrong
Debian package maintainer


To find more free educational software, please visit www.educational-freeware.com.
One of our friends at Tux Paint is the amazing kids Magician Matthew James.
He creates fun shows for kids with magic and Bounce Houses just like we create fun for kids with paint!
Go check out his site and enjoy the magic.


Did you know? Tux Paint is named after Tux the penguin, the mascot of the Linux operating system. "Tux" is short for tuxedo.