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Misc. GNU Packages
GNU recutils – News: recutils 1.7 releasedRelease of GNU pyconfigure 0.2.2Release of GSRC 2014.04.06I’m happy to announce the 2014.04.06 release of GSRC, the GNU Source Release Collection. GNU lightning 2.0.4 released!
GNUnet
GNUnet 0.10.1Installing GNUnet from Subversion on Ubuntu 14.4Installing GNUnet 0.10.1 on Ubuntu 14.4
Kernel
Coreboot Adds Support For The Lenovo ThinkPad T530The GNU Linux-libre 3.14-gnu Ultra-Free Kernel ReleasedFollowing last night’s release of the Linux 3.14 kernel, the GNU folks are out with their Linux-based “Freedom Pi” kernel.The GNU Linux-libre 3.14-gnu kernel is the upstream Linux 3.14.0 kernel but is “100% free” and removes non-free components from the kernel source tree like firmware blobs and “[code] disguised as source code." The libre kernel flavor also disables run-time requests for non-free kernel components.
MediaGoblin
Meet MediaGoblin, a Decentralized Alternative to YouTube and FlickrRunning on GNU, MediaGoblin allows user to upload videos, images, audio, and other types of digital media. But, unlike YouTube, Flickr, and Soundcloud, users control their own servers. And, if Webber, Nicholson, and the rest of the MediaGoblin community have their way, each users' media will be stored on Tahoe-LAFS, an encrypted server that does not know what data it stores.
Compiler
Warp: Facebook Open-Sources A Super Fast C/C++ Pre-Processor Following Facebook's announcement of the Hack language and being one of the organizations backing the new WebScaleSQL, Facebook developers ended out last week by announcing Warp, their latest open-source contribution.Warp is a C/C++ pre-processor that aims to be as fast as possible. The Warp pre-processor aims to be much faster than GCC's pre-processor. GCC 4.8.2 vs. GCC 4.9.0 Benchmarks On Intel's Core i7 Haswell
GMP
GMP 6.0.0 Brings Faster Performance, New FeaturesVersion 6.0.0 of the GNU Multiple Precision (GMP) Arithmetic Library has been released and it's landing heavy with new features. GMP 6.0.0 releasedA new major release of the GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library (GMP) is now available.
Philosophy
To Hell With Non-Free SoftwareIt’s clear that a lot of IT hardware is being supplied to consumers and organizations with built-in malware, stuff that spies on us and supplies people like NSA with information we don’t want them to have. Ironically, we actually subsidize this activity with our money either by taxation or the purchase-price. Richard Stallman to speak at TedxGeneva2014Richard Stallman will be speaking as part of TedxGeneva. His speech will be nontechnical and the public is encouraged to attend.Introducing Jaewoo, the Licensing Team's spring internJaewoo Cho recently started working at the FSF as a licensing intern. In this post, he writes about his experience with free software and his goals for the internship.
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