I know, I know, Microsoft doesn't support XP any more so neither should developers. This is understandable, but right now I'm stuck on an old XP machine. Hopefully I'll be getting something better in the near future, but for now I'm wondering if someone knows where I could find a (recent as possible) stable XP build, just for temporary use now.
Thanks for any help you can give.

http://download.kde.org/stable/krita/ has the only remaining xp builds. If your machine is that old, though, you won't be happy with the performance!

Hey, thanks for the link. I'm not expecting it to run that well, I'll probably be sticking to small images with just a couple layers.
That reminds me that I also wanted to ask about Krita's system requirements. Any ball-park guesses as to what the recommended specs would be? Just to take into mind for my (hopefully) upcoming purchase.

The lowest specced Surface Pro 3 works acceptably, but go for the largest amount of memory you can get.

Leonard03 wrote:Hey, thanks for the link. I'm not expecting it to run that well, I'll probably be sticking to small images with just a couple layers.
That reminds me that I also wanted to ask about Krita's system requirements. Any ball-park guesses as to what the recommended specs would be? Just to take into mind for my (hopefully) upcoming purchase.

For me, Krita works pretty decent on a i3 1.6 ghz with outdated integrated graphics and 4gig of ram.

In order of importance:
* Ram, and lots of it(because Krita is the type of program to do a lot of data juggling)
* Halfway decent graphics card(for the canvas)
* Processor(Krita is multithreaded in several places, like applying a transform to multiple layers, but overall still more a data-juggling program than a calculation program)
* Hard-drive(You can set the location of the swap file. Some companies and power-users have standard a cheap ssd drive that they happily ruin by sticking the swap-files for all their programs on it because it is faster.)

Thanks for your help guys. I ended up boosting my RAM to 5 GB and installing 64 bit lubuntu. I've got an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5 Ghz and 2.9.6 seems happy so far.

I was going to come here and suggest a light Linux distro would do the trick, but you beat me to the punch