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Wednesday the Free Software Foundation celebrated “the 40th anniversary of the GNU operating system and the launch of the free software movement,” with an announcement calling it “a turning point in the history of computing.
“Forty years later, GNU a… Continue reading GNU Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary
Libreboot is a distribution of coreboot “aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS firmware contained by most computers,” according to Wikipedia. It was briefly part of the GNU project, until maintainer Leah Rowe and the GNU project agreed to part ways i… Continue reading Libreboot Creator Says After Coding a Fork for ‘GNU Boot Project’, FSF Sent a Cease-and-Desist Letter Over Its Name
GCC is the GNU project’s free and open-source cross-platform compiler collection. Now an anonymous reader shared this announcement from the mailing list for GCC:
The GCC Steering Committee has decided to adopt a Code of Conduct for interactions in GC… Continue reading GCC Steering Committee Announces a Code of Conduct
“The fact remains that Google Chrome is the arbiter of web standards,” argues FSF campaigns manager Greg Farough (while adding that Firefox, “through ethical distributions like GNU IceCat and Abrowser, can weaken that stranglehold.”)
“Google’s deprec… Continue reading FSF Says Google’s Decision to Deprecate JPEG-XL Emphasizes Need for Browser Choice
Slashdot reader unixbhaskar writes:
A company in the U.K. calling itself Minifree has started to ship old Thinkpad (specifically the X series and T series models) with Libreboot firmware. Which is based on coreboot firmware.
More specifically, Librebo… Continue reading Libreboot Founder’s ‘Minifree’ Sells Free-Software Laptops with Libreboot Preinstalled
The Free Software Foundation certifies products that meet their standards in regard to users’ freedom, control over the product, and privacy. And they put out a new “Respects Your Freedom” certification on Thursday for ThinkPenguin’s free software giga… Continue reading FSF Awards ‘Respects Your Freedom’ Certification to ThinkPenguin’s Gigabit Mini VPN Router
The Free Software Foundation held their annual LibrePlanet conference last week — and announced that Eli Zaretskii, co-maintainer of GNU Emacs, won their “Advancement of Free Software” award. “He has been a contributor to Emacs for more than thir… Continue reading FSF Honors Emacs Co-Maintainer, ‘Replicant’ Developer, and Videoconferencing Tool Jami
Slashdot reader DevNull127 writes: It’s happening now — and you can watch it live online.
Saturday is the beginning of the fifteenth edition of the Free Software Foundation’s conference on ethical technology and user freedom. And they’re livest… Continue reading Livestreaming Now: Free Software Foundation’s ‘LibrePlanet’ Conference
After 104 commits from six different people, GNU grep was released Saturday, reports Phoronix.
The biggest change? “It’s now made more clear that if you are still relying on the egrep and fgrep commands, it’s past due for switching to just grep with … Continue reading GNU Grep 3.8 Starts Issuing Warnings About Using Egrep and Fgrep
“Nineteen new GNU releases in the last month,” reads a “July GNU Spotlight” announcement from the Free Software Foundation.
Here’s (edited and condensed) descriptions of some of the highlights:
GNU Datamash (version 1.8) — a command-line progr… Continue reading There Were 19 New GNU Releases Last Month