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New GNU stuff June 2008

July 2, 2008 on 10:27 am | In Free Software, GNU | No Comments

This is a compilation of the GNU software releases as
announced during June 2008 on the mailing list:

http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu

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GnuTLS 2.4.1 / 2008-06-30
GnuTLS is a modern C library that implement the standard
network security protocol Transport Layer Security (TLS),
for use by network applications.
http://www.gnutls.org/

GNU Wget 1.11.4 / 2008-06-30
GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving
files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used
Internet protocols.
http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

GNU Interactive Tools (gnuit) 4.9.4 / 2008-06-29
gnuit (GNU Interactive Tools) is a set of interactive
text-mode tools, closely integrated with the shell.
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuit/

Electric VLSI Design System 8.07 / 2008-06-27
Electric is a sophisticated electrical CAD system that
can handle many forms of circuit design.
http://www.gnu.org/software/electric/

Shishi 0.0.37 / 2008-06-24
Shishi is an implementation of the Kerberos 5 network
authentication system. Shishi can be used to authenticate
users in distributed systems.
http://josefsson.org/shishi/

GnuTLS 2.4.0 / 2008-06-19
GnuTLS is a modern C library that implement the standard
network security protocol Transport Layer Security (TLS),
for use by network applications.
http://www.gnutls.org/

gnash 0.8.3 / 2008-06-17
Gnash is a GPL’d Flash movie player and browser
plugin for Firefox, Mozilla, Konqueror, and Opera.
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/

GNUnet 0.8.0 / 2008-06-15
GNUnet is a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking
that does not use any centralized or otherwise trusted
services. A first service implemented on top of the
networking layer allows anonymous censorship-resistant
file-sharing
http://gnunet.org/

GNU PSPP 0.6.0 / 2008-06-09
PSPP is a program for statistical analysis
of sampled data.
http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/

Classpath 0.97.2 / 2008-06-06
GNU Classpath, essential libraries for java, is a project
to create free core class libraries for use with runtimes,
compilers and tools for the java programming language.
http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/

coreutils-6.12 / 2008-06-01
The GNU Core Utilities are the basic file, shell and text
manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system. These
are the core utilities which are expected to exist on every
operating system.
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/

GNU Typist 2.8.1 / 2008-06-01
GNU Typist (also called gtypist) is a universal
typing tutor.
http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/gtypist.html

GNU gv 3.6.4 / 2008-06-01
GNU gv allows to view and navigate through PostScript and
PDF documents on an X display by providing a graphical
user interface for the Ghostscript interpreter.
http://www.gnu.org/software/gv/

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Using ommunication tool in different places

June 15, 2008 on 10:58 am | In Free Software, geek | No Comments

I wotk at two different places, meaning two different computers. Add to that the private laptop (mainly for FSFE FSCONS and GNU Xnee work) plus the family desktop. The sum is 4 computer which I use actively more or less on a day to day basis. The locally installed tools I use for communication are: icedove and pidgin.

Adding one person to your Address book or Buddy list to your computer means I have the person in one computer only. Remedy is version control, accessible over the net. So far I’ve been version controlling some of the files for pidgin. Worked out quite nice. Having added ‘robban’ I now decided to take the step to version control everything in pidgin, including the logs. After that follows icedove versioning. Let’s see how everything works out.

Wish there was a simple way to have you private PGP key easily available over the net

New GNU stuff May 2008

June 4, 2008 on 5:08 pm | In Free Software | No Comments

This is a compilation of the GNU software releases as
announced during May 2008 on the mailing list:

http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu

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GNU Wget 1.11.3 / 2008-05-29
GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving
files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used
Internet protocols.
http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

Bison test version 2.3b / 2008-05-28
Bison is a general-purpose parser generator that
converts an annotated context-free grammar into an
LALR(1) or GLR parser for that grammar.
http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/

GNU Typist 2.8 / 2008-05-27
GNU Typist (also called gtypist) is a universal
typing tutor.
http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/gtypist.html

GNU AutoGen Version 5.9.5, AutoOpts Version 31.1 / 2008-05-25
GNU AutoGen/AutoOpts is a two-part project that serves
two separate purposes.  The two parts are combined
because they are inextricably intertwined
http://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/

GnuTLS 2.2.5 / 2008-05-19
GnuTLS is a modern C library that implement the standard
network security protocol Transport Layer Security (TLS),
for use by network applications.
http://www.gnutls.org/

GnuTLS 2.2.4 / 2008-05-19
GnuTLS is a modern C library that implement the standard
network security protocol Transport Layer Security (TLS),
for use by network applications.
http://www.gnutls.org/

GNU Cgicc 3.2.6 / 2008-05-18
GNU cgicc is an ANSI C++ compliant class library
that greatly simplifies the creation of CGI
applications for the World Wide Web.
http://www.gnu.org/software/cgicc/

GNU Robots 1.1.0 / 2008-05-15
GNU Robots is a game/diversion where you construct a
program for a little robot, then watch him explore a
world.
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnurobots/

GNU CLISP 2.45 / 2008-05-15
ANSI Common Lisp is a high-level, general-purpose
programming language.
http://www.gnu.org/software/clisp/

Zile 2.2.59 / 2008-05-13
GNU Zile, which is a lightweight Emacs clone.
http://www.gnu.org/software/zile/

GNU Guile 1.8.5 / 2008-05-07
Guile is an interpreter for the Scheme programming language,
with support for many SRFIs, packaged for use in a wide
variety of environments.
http://www.gnu.org/software/guile

GnuTLS 2.2.3 / 2008-05-06
GnuTLS is a modern C library that implement the standard
network security protocol Transport Layer Security (TLS),
for use by network applications.
http://www.gnutls.org/

GNU SASL 0.2.26 / 2008-05-05
GNU SASL is a modern C library that implement the
standard network security protocol Simple
Authentication and Security Layer (SASL).
http://josefsson.org/gsasl/

GNU ghostscript 8.61.0 / 2008-05-05
Interpreter for the PostScript language and the
PDF file format. A set of C procedures that implement
the graphics capabilities. A wide variety of output
drivers for various file formats and printers.
http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/

GNU ghostscript 8.62.0 / 2008-05-05
Interpreter for the PostScript language and the
PDF file format. A set of C procedures that implement
the graphics capabilities. A wide variety of output
drivers for various file formats and printers.
http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/

GNU Libtool 2.2.4 /  2008-05-04
GNU Libtool hides the complexity of using shared
libraries behind a consistent, portable interface.
http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/

GNU Wget 1.11.2 / 28-05-01
GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving
files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used
Internet protocols.
http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

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New GNU stuff April 2008

May 6, 2008 on 11:00 am | In Free Software | No Comments

This is a compilation of the GNU software releases as
announced during April 2008 on the mailing list:

http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu

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GNU Interactive Tools 4.9.3 / 2008-04-01
gnuit (GNU Interactive Tools) is a set of interactive
text-mode tools, closely integrated with the shell.
It contains an extensible file system browser, an
ascii/hex file viewer, a process viewer/killer and
some other related utilities and shell scripts.
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnuit/

GNU Libtool 2.2.2 / 2008-04-02
GNU Libtool hides the complexity of using shared
libraries behind a consistent, portable interface.
http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/

m4-1.4.11 / 2008-04-02
GNU M4 is an implementation of the traditional
Unix macro processor.
http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/

GNU C Reference Manual 0.1 / 2008-04-04
The GNU C Reference Manual is a reference for the
C programming language, as implemented by the
GNU C Compiler.
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-c-manual/

Autoconf 2.62 / 2008-04-09
Autoconf is an extensible package of M4 macros
that produce shell scripts to automatically configure
software source code packages.
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/

Libidn 1.7 / 2008-04-10
Libidn is a fully documented implementation of the Stringprep,
Punycode and IDNA specifications defined by the IETF
Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) working group, used for
internationalized domain names.
http://josefsson.org/libidn/

GNU IceCat 2.0.0.13-g1 / 2008-04-12
GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Mozilla Firefox
web browser.

GNU Gama 1.9.05 / 2008-04-13
GNU Gama is a project dedicated to adjustment of
geodetic networks.
http://www.gnu.org/software/gama

GNU libmicrohttpd 0.3.0 / 2008-04-13
GNU libmicrohttpd is a small C library that is supposed
to make it easy to run an HTTP server as part of another
application.
http://www.gnu.org/software/libmicrohttpd/

GNU tar 1.20 / 2008-04-14
The Tar program provides the ability to create tar archives,
as well as various other kinds of manipulation. For example,
you can use Tar on previously created archives to extract
files, to store additional files, or to update or list files
which were already stored.
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar

Remember 2.0 / 2008-04-17
Remember is an Emacs mode for quickly remembering data.

coreutils-6.11 / 2008-04-19

The GNU Core Utilities are the basic file, shell and text
manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system. These
are the core utilities which are expected to exist on every
operating system.
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/

GNU SIP Witch / 2008-04-20
GNU SIP Witch is a call and registration server for the
SIP protocol.
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnucomm/

GNU Texinfo 4.12 / 2008-04-20
Texinfo is the official documentation format of the
GNU project.
http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/

GJDoc 0.7.9 / 2008-04-21
gjdoc is the GNU documentation generation framework
for java source files.
http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/

Libgcrypt 1.4.1 / 2008-04-25
Libgcrypt is a general purpose library of cryptographic
building blocks.
http://www.gnupg.org/

GNU Gengetopt 2.22.1 / 2008-04-26
GNU Gengetopt generates a C function that uses
getopt_long function to parse the command line options,
validate them and fill a struct.
http://www.gnu.org/software/gengetopt/

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