The GNU C Library, commonly known as glibc, is the C standard library released by the GNU Project. Originally written by the Free Software Foundation for the GNU operating system, the library's development has been overseen by a committee since 2001, with Ulrich Drepper from Red Hat as the lead contributor and maintainer.
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The MMORPG Ryzom goes Free Software
Breakthrough for free software gaming -- Ryzom announces full release of source code and artwork, and a partnership with the Free Software Foundation to host a repository of the game's artistic assets.
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GNUtrition 0.31 released
GNUtrition is nutrition analysis software for GNU. The US Department of Agriculture Nutrient Database of Standard Reference is used as the source of food nutrient information. It contains data on 81 nutrients for over 5,000 foods. This release has been updated for Python 2.4 and features various bug fixes & tweeks. The license has been updated to GPLv3.
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GLib 2.25.0 released
GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C, portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system. The GSettings framework has been merged into it.
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Groovy++ goes fully open source
Groovy++, the static typing compiler extension for Groovy, is to be released as open source under the APL2. The Groovy++ project started last year and at the time Alex Tkachman, project founder said Groovy++'s compiler "uses several pieces of technology, which our company uses and plans to use in our commercial products.
Read more »GCC 4.5 release series
GCC now requires the MPC library, obsolete architectures support removed, many optimization features, standart conformance, much better parallelization support, debugging, plugins support.
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GNUmed 0.7.0 released
This release features a rather unexpected new functionality: visual progress notes. Those are sketches/images (such as visual markers onto templates or clinical photographs) standing side by side with the clinical narrative of any given encounter.
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GNU Generation 2.0
After many successful months of GNU Generation, GNU Generation 2.0 was officially announced at LibrePlanet 2010. This builds upon the original GNU Generation by lowering the entry barrier to free software contribution, and making the program more extensible. So what is new? Let's see...
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Generic Security Service Library (GSSLib) 1.0.0 release
GSSLib is an implementation of the Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API) in GNU project and licensed under GPLv3. GSS-API is used by network servers to provide security services, for example, GSS can be used to authenticate a client against SMTP or IMAP servers.
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Shishi 0.0.43 (release candidate for 1.0.0)
Shishi is GNU implementation of the Kerberos 5 network authentication system. Shishi can be used to authenticate users in distributed systems. Current work items include improvements on the server (KDC), integration of initial authentication via OpenPGP using GnuTLS, set-passwd implementation, and a LDAP backend for the Shisa library used in the KDC for information storage.
Read more »OpenSSL 1.0.0 released
The OpenSSL project team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.0 of our open source toolkit for SSL/TLS. This new OpenSSL version is a major release and incorporates many new features as well as major fixes compared to 0.9.8n.
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GNU/EDMA 0.18.0 release candidate 1
New release candidate of GNU/EDMA is here! GNU/EDMA is an open and modular development environment similar to the Component Object Model or the System Object Model. GNU EDMA allows to use most of the classic OO task (inheritance,virtual method override,..) dynamically.
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FreeBSD 7.3 release
FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE is out! Updates to ZFS, bootloader, amdsbwd, alc, cas and hwpmc drivers, DRM's videoadapters, ISC BIND, sendmail, GNOME, KDE and huge quantity of various bugfixes and other drivers.
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grep-2.6 released
grep is a tool to search for strings inside a file. This release fixes an unexpectedly large number of flaws, from outright bugs (surprisingly many, considering this is "grep") to some occasionally debilitating performance problems. Special thanks to Paolo Bonzini for doing most of the heavy lifting.
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TeX Live 2009 released
TeX Live 2009 is out! It is popular collection of huge quantity of different TeX packages all-in-one, created in 1996 and based on teTeX. Full DVD-image takes over 1.2 GB and includes fully working Live-environment for many operating systems, CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network) copy and many documentation.
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