Blender 2.59 has been released! PPA Ubuntu and LinuxMint

The Blender Foundation announced the release of  Blender 2.59. This is the third stable release of the Blender 2.5 series, representing the culmination of many years of redesign, development and stabilizing work. According to the announcement ” We name this version “Stable” not only because it’s mostly feature complete, but especially thanks to the 1000s of fixes and feature updates we did since the 2.5 beta versions were published.“

For more information about this release pleasse check the changelog

About Blender :

Blender is a free, open source 3D graphics application that can be used for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, water and smoke simulations, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulations, non-linear editing, compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications, including video games, animated film, or visual effects.

Blender’s features include advanced simulation tools such as rigid, realistic body, fluid, cloth and softbody dynamics, modifier-based modeling tools, powerful character animation tools, a node-based material and compositing system and Python for embedded scripting.

Installation:

You can install Blender in Ubuntu and Linuxmint via the following PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cheleb/blender-svn
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install blender

• For Fedora

yum Install  blender

• Mandriva

urpmi blender

• Opensue

yast2 -i blender

Done!

Also check our previous posts about blender:

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