My Distribution is the most updated.

October is generally the month when major distributions like OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Mandriva etc make a release. I wanted to check which of the major distributions keep themselves updated and the release of Gimp 2.4.0 on 24th October 2007 ( two days ago) gave me this opportunity. In this article I will list the version of Gimp present in various common distributions, the source of different versions is Distrowatch.

Here is the table I made by getting data from Distrowatch.

Distribution	Latest in Official Repositories	Released version with the Latest ISO
OpenSUSE	Factory(2.2.17)	10.3 (2.2.17)
Mighty Ubuntu	Snapshot (2.4.0rc3)	7.10 (2.4.0rc3)
Fedora	Rawhide (2.4.0)	8 Test 3 (2.4.0rc3)
Mandriva	Cooker ( 2.4.0)	2008 (2.4.0rc2)
FreeBSD	7Current (2.2.17) 6Stable (2.2.17)	6.2 RELEASE (2.2.13)
Gentoo	Unstable(2.4.0rc3) Stable (2.3.19)	2007.0(2.2.14)
Arch	Current (2.4.0)	2007.08(2.2.17)
PCLinuxOS	apt (2.4.0)	2007 (2.3.16)

As we can see that of these FreeBSD has the least updated version of Gimp and Arch, PCLinuxOS, Fedora and Mandriva have the latest versions of Gimp 2.4.0. Others have an in between versions.
However, the latest version of Gimp in Fedora and Mandriva is present in their testing repositories and not release in their stable repositories.
Hence we have only two distributions which have the honor of having the latest GIMP in their stable repositories ARCH and PCLinuxOS. Hats off to both of them for keeping the distributions fully updated and enabling people like me to work on the latest version of software ( Gimp in this case).

One more reason why I Love PCLinuxOS.

DISCLAIMER :: I have tried to stick to some common distributions (which I have used in the past) and this comparison is solely based on Gimp version in the repositories of various distributions at 9:56 AM IST on 26th October 2007 as reported by distrowatch.