TuxGuitar

TuxGuitar
Original author(s)Julian Gabriel Casadesus and others[1]
Stable release
1.6.4[2] Edit this on Wikidata / 23 August 2024
Repositorygithub.com/helge17/tuxguitar
Written inJava, Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT)
Operating systemLinux, Microsoft Windows, macOS, FreeBSD
Available inEnglish, French, Polish
TypeTablature editor, Scorewriter
LicenseLGPL-2.1-only

TuxGuitar is a free and open-source tablature editor, which includes features such as tablature editing, score editing, and import and export of Guitar Pro gp3, gp4, and gp5 files.[3] In addition, TuxGuitar's tablature and staff interfaces function as basic MIDI editors.

TuxGuitar's mascot and namesake is Tux, the penguin mascot of many games and programs originally designed for Linux.

The program is written in the Java programming language[4] and is released under the LGPL-2.1-only license.

Originally developed on SourceForge, development moved to GitHub on 30 March 2023[5] after the TuxGuitar websites had disappeared and the original author stopped responding. The 1.6.0 release was the first release done by the development team on GitHub.[6]

  1. ^ "tuxguitar/TuxGuitar/doc/AUTHORS". GitHub. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Release 1.6.4". Retrieved 23 August 2024.
  3. ^ Mantilla, Daniel. "TuxGuitar: Editorial review". Software Informer. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
  4. ^ Smith, Tim. "TuxGuitar 1.2". Computeractive. Archived from the original on 9 April 2013. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
  5. ^ Gerloni, Helmar. "TuxGuitar / Discussion / Open Discussion: Speed up TuxGuitar development". SourceForge. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  6. ^ Gerloni, Helmar. "TuxGuitar / Discussion / Open Discussion: TuxGuitar Version 1.6 available". SourceForge. Retrieved 27 November 2023.