GIMP

1. Short for GNU Image Manipulation Program, GIMP or The GIMP is a freely distributed Unix software program for image retouching, composition and authoring. GIMP was written by Peter Mattis, Josh MacDonald, Spencer Kimball and is released under the General Public License.

Another great GIMP Solution is GIMPShop, a special version of GIMP that has been designed to emulate and be more user-friendly for those users who are familiar with Adobe Photoshop. GIMPShop is available for the MacOS, Windows, Linux, and Solaris platforms.

2. GIMPS is also short for Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search and is a distributed computing project designed to find Mersenne primes.

Also see: Distributed systems, GTK, Image editor, Prime numbers, Unix section