The past... initiated by Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis Spring 1995 - »first line of code« Begin 1996 - development of GTK goal: independance of OSF/Motif. Gimp 0.54 - the first »stable release« Early summer 1996 - porting Gimp to GTK. the development accelerates: potential developers don't have to buy OSF/Motif. October 1997 - »feature freeze« for V1.0 June 5th 1998 - Gimp 1.0 appears.