GNU
GNU CLISP 2.45 (2008-05-15) released
"ANSI Common Lisp is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. GNU CLISP is a Common Lisp implementation by Bruno Haible of Karlsruhe University and Michael Stoll of Munich University, both in Germany. It mostly supports the Lisp described in the ANSI Common Lisp standard..."
[FSF] Free Software Supporter - Issue 3, May 2008
## In this issue
* Free Software Supporter exclusive: WBUR is streaming Ogg Vorbis!
* DBD Action Alert - Libraries: Eliminate DRM!
* Get DeltaH, gNewSense 2.0
* Get your next machine with gNewSense
* Silicon Mechanics to ship servers with free BIOS preinstalled
* Can we rescue OLPC from Windows? by Richard M. Stallman
* End Software Patents: the Bilski hearing, heard.
Why Free Software
"Why should we care to have a 100 per cent free operating system? Isn't being almost free enough? Not if you value freedom itself.
The Free Software Movement was founded to win freedom for software users. Its offshoot, Open Source, was founded to downplay freedom as a value. This difference, which may seem subtle, has big consequences and this is one example of them..."
Quote of the Day from RMS
"The primary mission of GNU is freedom and social solidarity. We seek to help computer users by giving them software that respects their freedom and their community, so as to put an end to the practice of using proprietary software, which tramples both..."
GNU and FSF News for May 2008
"Skype fought the GPL and the GPL won. The OLPC XO project abandons free software just as RMS switches to an XO; RMS not happy. New monthly newsletters from the FSF and FSFE. GNOME and KDE want to have a joint development conference in 2009. GNOME and GCC conferences coming up later this year. Plus all the usual news: more GPL v3 conversions, HURD news, GNOME news, GCC news, and more..."
GNU Guile 1.8.5 released
"We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 1.8.5. This is the next maintenance release for the 1.8 stable series. It provides a number of portability improvements, bug fixes, as well as several new features. You can find it here: ..."
A new wave of freedom
"The new freedom movement , in software, knowledge, publishing and commerce, will change the way we think, do things and interact..."
Secure Calling Initiative Reaches Second Milestone
"...GNU Telephony Secure Calling is intended to make it both possible, and easy, for individuals, private organizations, and public institutions to deploy secure realtime voice and video communications (VoIP) both in closed and openly accessible networks, and to do so in a manner which helps make passive and warrantless communication intercept of private communication a thing of the past.
RMS Talk
"Yesterday, me and a couple of friends went to see a talk in Manchester by Richard Stallman (rms), the founder of the free software movement. I’m not sure quite how much the other two got from the experience, but I certainly found it very interesting - although I knew many of the things he said, it was the way he explained them, and it also provoked me to think about certain things..."
gNewSense 2.0, a premier Freedomware platform based on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, released
I believe it is worth a special mention that gNewSense 2.0 has just been released.
Examining the Legendary HURD Kernel
"David Chisnall takes a look at the GNU Project's infamous HURD kernel, exploring some of the features that make it unique and some that have found their way into other systems. [...] Even in its current state, HURD exists to prove a point: It’s possible to have a complete and usable system running nothing other than GNU code." -- http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=1180992
The GNU Left
"In the Information Technology world, the Free Software Foundation is the organization that struggles against the drive to convert knowledge itself into a capitalist commodity known as Intellectual Property. The emergence of [GNU/Linux], the fastest growing computer operating system (OS), has done much to validate the FSF work.
Sun wants to free up the rest of Java, have it ship with Linux
Sun says it is looking to open source a few remaining Java components so it can ship unencumbered with Linux, and hopefully encourage more Linux developers to use Java.
Richard Stallman’s speech about GNU and Free software
"On April/4/2008, Richard Stallman came to UAB to give a conference about GNU. You can view the WHOLE conference in Spanish at the end of this post (and some pictures as well). I strongly recommend you to view the video as it’s quite interesting..."
Do we need to call GNU os as GNU/Linux
"No. I think we should not call GNU as GNU/Linux. The Debian GNU system that i have has 1000s of programs. In those i am daily used 10-15 programs. Its inconvenient to say GNU/Linux/Abiword/gnumeric/mysql/gtkmm/…. So i like to call it simply GNU. Linux kernel is an important work But it Just another program ..."
