Hi, Over the past five years I've been slowly developing a fractal program for Unix- and Linux-based systems called Gnofract 4D. I'm now almost ready to release version 2.0, which is a major improvement over the previous releases. The main new feature is that it can load Fractint .FRM files (but not yet .PAR files), which is why it may be of interest to some folks on this list. Brief feature list: - GTK-based GUI (screenshots at: http://gnofract4d.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html) - 24bit color and antialiasing - named parameters + separate colorfuncs as in UltraFractal Obviously there are many Fractint features which are NOT supported, including logmap, stereo, 3D, L-systems, DOS or Windows support, periodicity-checking, IFS, etc, etc. Anyway, if you're familiar enough with Linux to compile from source, willing to put up with flaky, beta-quality software, and interested in trying out a new fractal package, please download the beta from: http://www.bathysphere.org/gnofract4d-2.0.tar.gz And do let me know any bugs, suggestions or feature requests! Since this is only marginally related to Fractint I shan't announce future releases here - if you want to hear about them please subscribe at http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnofract4d/ Thanks, -- Edwin