"...Here are the [Ogg] multimedia recordings of the talks from GNU Hackers Meeting 2008. A meeting for GNU hackers (maintainers and active contributors) in Bristol (UK)..."
Read more »Using GNU Screen on a Remote Machine
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So, what is Screen? It describes itself as: a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.
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Stallman on Gates, and Free Software
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Free Software Foundation chairman and all around computer freedom guru Richard Stallman has written an article for the BBC entitled ‘It’s not the Gates, it’s the bars’.
Read more »GNU CLISP 2.46 (2008-07-02) released
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"Common Lisp is a high-level, general-purpose, object-oriented, dynamic, functional programming language. CLISP is a Common Lisp implementation by Bruno Haible, then of Karlsruhe University, and Michael Stoll, then of Munich University, both in Germany. It implements the language described in the ANSI Common Lisp standard with many extensions..."
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GNU IceCat 3.0
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"Hello, I just uploaded a first version of GNUzilla Icecat 3 based on the new Firefox 3 source. You can find the source code and GNU/Linux-i386 binaries here: ..." -- From Giuseppe Scrivano: http://it.gnu.org/~gscrivano/
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Open Source replicant can copy itself for free
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A 3D printer has been prototyped which can create real copies of its own component parts, a self-replicating machine. The people behind it have kept costs down to less than a thousand bucks and are developing it under a GNU public license. They say you will be able to get the machine to copy itself and then give away the copies for free.
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GNUnet 0.8.0 released
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"We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.8.0. This release adds various major new features [...] -- GNUnet is a secure, trust-based peer-to-peer framework. A first service implemented on top of the networking layer allows anonymous censorship-resistant file-sharing. GNUnet's primary design goals are to protect the privacy of its users and to guard itself against attacks or abuse.
Read more »[FSF] Free Software Supporter, June 2008
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## In this issue
* New FSF store
* Farewell Justin, Hello Danny
* DRM elimination crew at the Apple Store launch
* Savannah adds Subversion, Mercurial
* Freedom and privacy in the cloud: a call for action
* Boycott Windows Media Center!
* GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry
* Richard Stallman's speaking schedule and other FSF speeches
* Take Action with the FSF
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New Free Software Foundation and GNU Online Store Opened
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After many years of hard work, the old FSF order form has been retired and replaced with a brand new web store, based on code from the Satchmo project. You can now show your support for freedom in software and computing by buying some cool t-shirts, books, stickers, reference cards and other FSF/GNU gear.
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RMS attacks Oyster's 'unethical' use of GNU systems & Free Software
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RMS: «The GNU system (often called "Linux") has been developed, since 1984, for the sake of computer users' freedom. Ironically it is now the basis for a system designed to smother the freedom of the people of London, through online payments to Oyster cards. [...]»
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GCC 4.3.1 Released
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"GCC 4.3.1 has been released. GCC 4.3.1 is a bug-fix release, containing fixes for regressions in GCC 4.3.0 relative to previous GCC releases..."
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GNU gv 3.6.4 released
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GNU gv 3.6.4, the GNU PostScript and PDF viewer, released today...
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The A-Z of Programming Languages: BASH/Bourne-Again Shell - When the Bourne Shell found its identity
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"Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into the most widely-used programming languages. Previously we spoke to Alfred v. Aho of AWK fame, and in this article we chat to Chet Ramey about his experience maintaining Bash. Bash, or the Bourne-Again Shell is a Unix shell created in 1987 by Brian Fox.
Read more »Common Lisp as an AI language
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"Programming AI using standard programming languages, e.g., C/C++ or Java is not a good idea. It's too general purpose language. I'm considering to select between (Common) Lisp ..." -- Cool, but it's better on GNU systems ;-)
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Freedom is... the GNU Operating System
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* «With the Hurd, users can change anything in their system which doesn't affect other users.»
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