After building the infrastructure to analyse the code in an Ubuntu release I decided to satisfy a simple curiosity and figure out how much GNU software is actually part of a modern distribution.
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Inline assembly instructions in GCC
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Example with an ARM target on how to use GCC inline assembly effectively in C code.
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GNU Compiler Collection 4.6.0 Released
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GCC 4.6 brings support for the new Go programming language, improved experimental support for the C++0x standard, support for Android Bionic C library, support fot ARM Cortex-M4, basic support for the Cortex-A15, Intel Core 2 and Core i7 optimizations, support for AMD Bobcat CPUs and more.
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GNU Free Call: an Open Source Skype Alternative
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GNU Free Call will offer a service that's both secure and usable on all platforms, much the way closed-source Skype is, its developers say.
Read more »GNU Free Call Announced
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GNU Free Call is a new project to develop and deploy secure self-organized communication services worldwide for private use and for public administration. We use the open standard SIP protocol and GNU SIP Witch to create secured peer-to-peer mesh calling networks, and we welcome all participation in our effort.
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Exciting developments in GNU Radio
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GNU Radio had a pretty good year in 2010, and we are already on track for an even more productive year in 2011. While we only produced one release in 2010, a large amount of work went into our source repository to improve the quality and stability of the project, and we are on track for a new release soon that incorporates many of these fixes into a new stable release.
Read more »Localising Gnu/Linux to TELUGU - Sprint Activity
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With a great success few years back,we are back in a bigger way!Feel proud to help our local community ranging from kids in rural areas to your grand parents.Do participate.
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Interview with Richard Stallman (2011)
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Richard M. Stallman is an American software freedom activist and computer programmer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system; he initiated the Free Software Movement; in October 1985 he founded the Free Software Foundation.
Read more »GNU/Hurd in 2010
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The Hurd doesn't fully deliver on the everyday usability goal yet, but it is seeing continuous improvement---and 2010 has been no exception. Let's take a look at the progress throughout the year.
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Updated Debian GNU/Linux: 5.0.8 released
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The Debian project is pleased to announce the eighth update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (codename "lenny"). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustment to serious problems.
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Trisquel 4.5 development release, crowd funding and holiday presents
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quidam: "Trisquel 4.5 STS Slaine beta release
After the very successful release of our latest LTS edition -more than 17.000 direct downloads so far!- we are already working on the next one. Trisquel 4.5 STS Slaine will be based on Ubuntu 10.10, and the first beta images -installable live CD- are ready for download. You can follow the development in the wiki."
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Blag 139k alpha avialable
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Koko_the_crazy_koala: "Hi everyone,
After 5 days of hard work, finally an iso is avialable for blag i686. I'll upload the x86_64 version later today.
Download it here : http://www.zenblagger.org/blaggers/Blag-139k-alpha-i686.iso and please report the bugs :)"
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Coding styles comparison in the Open Source Software world
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A comparison of some elements of coding style for many Open Source projects: Linux, GNU, Qt, Gnome and others, with useful links.
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X.org 7.6 released
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The X.Org Foundation and the global community of X.Org developers announce the release 7.6 of the X Window System. This release is the seventh modular release of the X Window System. The next full release will be X11R7.7 and is expected in 2011. X11R7.6 supports GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, MacOS X, Microsoft Windows and GNU Hurd systems.
Read more »Geek Time with Peter Brown of FSF
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When the Free Software Foundation’s executive director, Peter Brown, visited the Google offices last week, he graciously offered his time for an interview with Samba co-founder and Open Source Programs Office team member Jeremy Allison. Peter and Jeremy spoke for quite a while about several of the hot topics facing free software today.
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