Paint.NET 2.0 Released

Paint.NET

"Paint.NET v2.0 is ready for download! (Updated 12-17-2004)
Thanks to everyone who was involved in Paint.NET v2.0. We really appreciated all the positive comments and encouragement we received while developing this product. We also would like to thank everyone who posted bugs or new feature suggestions in the forum. It really helped out.
Thanks so much, we hope you enjoy Paint.NET v2.0!
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Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows XP. Paint.NET is jointly developed at Washington State University with additional help from Microsoft, and is meant to be a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with all Windows operating systems. The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with GDI+ extensions.

Paint.NET has many of the powerful features that expensive commercial applications have, including the ability to use layers. This is the second semester that Paint.NET has been a project at Washington State University, and we have the goal of adding as much functionality as expensive commercial applications provide, but of course, for free! In the spirit of all this freedom, we welcome any suggestions, as well as provide the source code free of charge for anyone who wishes to tinker with it. Please explore this website, download the software and try out many of the things you would do on those expensive commercial applications...."

The cool Paint.Net 2.0 is now available for download (both installer and source)... While it's still targeted at XP it now works on Win2K.

I've been looking for a free "Paint" replacement... Maybe this will be it?

(via Rick Brewster's blog - Paint.NET v2.0 ... NOW AVAILABLE!