The main author is Lauris Kaplinski, and several other people have contributed to the project. The project is no longer under active development, but development continues on Inkscape, a 2003 fork of Sodipodi. Sodipodi itself started as a fork of Gill, a vector-graphics program written by Raph Levien. The primary design goal of Sodipodi is to produce a usable editor for vector graphics, and a drawing tool for artists. Although it uses SVG as its native file format (including some extensions to hold metadata), it is not intended to be a full implementation of the SVG standard. Sodipodi imports and exports plain SVG data, and can also export raster graphics in PNG format

Xara Xtreme for Linux is a powerful, general purpose graphics program for Unix platforms including Linux, FreeBSD and (in development) OS-X. Xara Xtreme for Linux: * Is very fast, very slick to use. * Offers some of the most powerful graphics tools available. * Is simple to use and learn. * Has a clean, un-cluttered user interface. Few floating dialogs, palettes, menus etc. * Is able to create a huge range of outstanding graphics. * Has a huge resource of learning material, tutorials, movies, tips and a very active enthusiastic and growing user community.