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“27 GNU project maintainers and developers have signed on to a joint statement asking for Richard Stallman to be removed from his leadership role at GNU,” writes Slashdot reader twocows.
The statement argues that “Stallman’s behavior over the years … Continue reading Richard Stallman Defies Push By 27 GNU Project Developers To End His Leadership
On Thursday, Richard Stallman reminded the GNU Project mailing list that “On September 16 I resigned as president of the Free Software Foundation, but the GNU Project and the FSF are not the same. I am still the head of the GNU Project (the Chief GNUis… Continue reading Richard Stallman Is Still Head of the GNU Project
This week Richard Stallman responded to “a certain amount of speculation and rumor” about his recent talk at Microsoft, addressing dark suggestions that, for example, Microsoft might’ve hoped to seduce Stallman away from the free software cause. “I res… Continue reading Richard Stallman Addresses ‘Speculation and Rumor’ About His Appearance at Microsoft
Of all the stories we’d expect to hit our little corner of the world, we never thought that the seedy doings of a now-deceased accused pedophile billionaire would have impacted the intellectual home of the open-source software movement. But it did, and this week Richard Stallman resigned from the Computer …read more
Thomas Bushnell, BSG, founded GNU’s official kernel project, GNU Hurd, and maintained it from 1990 through 2003. This week on Medium he posted “a reflection on the departure of RMS.”
There has been some bad reporting, and that’s a problem. While I hav… Continue reading GNU’s Former Kernel Maintainer Shares ‘A Reflection on the Departure of Richard Stallman’
In honor of FreeDOS’s 25th birthday, project founder and coordinator Jim Hall agreed to answer the 10 best questions submitted by Slashdot readers. You asked and he answered! Read on for Jim’s interview.
Read more of this story at Slashdot. Continue reading The Slashdot Interview with FreeDOS founder Jim Hall
FreeDOS was originally created in response to Microsoft’s announcement that after Windows 95, DOS would no longer be developed as a standalone operating system, according to Computerworld’s 2016 interview with FreeDOS’s founder and project coordinator,… Continue reading Interviews: For the 25th Birthday of FreeDOS, Ask Its Founder A Question
“Release 8.3 of GDB, the GNU Debugger, is now available,” according to an announcement on the info-gnu mailing list:
GDB is a source-level debugger for Ada, C, C++, Go, Rust, and many other languages. GDB can target (i.e., debug programs running on) … Continue reading GDB 8.3 Released
An anonymous reader quotes LWN.net:
Version 1.0.0 of the GNU Guix package manager has been released. “This 1.0 release is a major milestone for Guix. It represents 7 years of hard work with more than 40,000 commits by 260 people, 19 releases, and an eq… Continue reading After Seven Years, The Gnu Project Releases GNU Guix 1.0.0
This weekend’s annual LibrePlanet conference, hosted by the Free Software Foundation, prompted a new essay about “install fests” from Richard Stallman:
Install fests invite users to bring their computers so that experts can install GNU/Linux on them….. Continue reading Stallman Suggests Install Fest ‘Deals With Devil’ Include Actual Man Dressed As Devil