GNU News: New Releases, Coreboot Milestone, GNU Linux-libre, MediaGoblin, and Compilers
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-04-09 19:12:57 UTC
- Modified: 2014-04-09 19:14:18 UTC
Misc. GNU Packages
I'm happy to announce the 2014.04.06 release of GSRC, the GNU Source Release Collection.
GNUnet
Kernel
Following 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
Running 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
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.
GMP
Version 6.0.0 of the GNU Multiple Precision (GMP) Arithmetic Library has been released and it's landing heavy with new features.
A new major release of the GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library (GMP) is now available.
Philosophy
It’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 will be speaking as part of TedxGeneva. His speech will be nontechnical and the public is encouraged to attend.
Jaewoo 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.
Recent Techrights' Posts
- The Slopfarms' Business Case (or Business Model) Never Existed and Nowadays, in 2026, They've Mostly Collapsed
- Hopefully by year's end many slop suppliers will be offline and slopfarms that rely on them throw in the towel
- IBM CEO and CFO Make It Hotter in the Kitchen
- Who's gonna leave the kitchen while they cook the books?
- Jim Zemlin's 'Linux' Foundation is the Real Link Between Linux and Pedophilia
- It's about the deeds, not the words
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- Links 28/02/2026: Bill Epsteingate Admits Sex With Young Girls, "Epstein Files Are the Horror That Keeps on Giving"
- Links for the day
- IBM: Where Companies Come to Perish
- thelayoff.com is censoring stories
- Tech Layoffs Are Not Because of Slop, They're an Effect of a Rotting Economy and Tech Giants Being Too Deep in Debt
- Block is rapidly sinking in debt
- March in London Today Against Slop's Harms to Society (and the Environment), Starting at 12:00 GMT at the Microsoft OpenAI Office
- Today there is a protest in London (UK)
- Microsoft Mass Layoffs Have Officially Resumed, Microsoft's Waggener Edstrom/Frank Shaw Lied
- "The former employees say this was a mass layoff"
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, February 27, 2026
- IRC logs for Friday, February 27, 2026
- Links 27/02/2026: Block Cuts 40% of Its Workforce While Blaming Ponzi Scheme, Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros.
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 27/02/2026: Unlearning Literacy (Slop) and Firefox as Slop-ware
- Links for the day
- It Looks Like Linux Chief Linus Torvalds Made a Good Call Regarding Kent 'Slop' Overstreet
- Having never met or even chatted to Overstreet, I'm not in a position to judge him
- Links 27/02/2026: Slop Incompatible With Nuclear Codes, Chinese Slop "Chatbots Censor Themselves"
- Links for the day
- Please Report the European Patent Office (EPO) to Europol for Cocaine Abuse and Tampering With Witnesses and Media to Hide This Cocaine Abuse
- there are already police reports connected to the matter
- Like a Mafia: Kris De Neef and Nellie Simon, Who Help Campinos Cover Up Cocainegate at the EPO (Substance Abuse at the Highest Office), Are Bullying EPO Whistleblowers
- They're all in this together [...] At this point, undoubtedly, the EPO is run like an organised crime operation. Nothing more, nothing less.
- pulltheplug.uk Says the Internet Harms Us, Will March in London Tomorrow
- Maybe the site is down due to high access demand
- EPO Management Trying to Hide Cocainegate, Silence/Discredit Whistleblowers, and Probably in a Panic Due to the Strikes
- At the moment, Johannes' mates are receiving over 100,000 euros as a reward for doing illegal drugs
- The GNU Manifesto Turns 41 in March (Next Week)
- And RMS turns 73 next month
- The Sister Site is Still Improving the Static Site Generator (SSG) We Use in Techrights
- We have a common mission and every week we make measurable advancements
- Techrights is 100% Disconnected From Cheeto's America, the Problem is Hired Guns in London Helping Violent Americans Attack Us Domestically
- Not a new problem, not limited to us
- Greenland Needs to Disconnect From United States Tech to Protect Its Independence
- The more Greenland protects itself from Social Control Media, the more robust or resilient it'll be to regime change
- Open Source Endowment (OSE) Looking to Raise Money for Free Software, But It's Hard to Know who Runs the Open Source Endowment Foundation
- Their Web site does not (easily) show who the Board of Directors includes
- Apple Doesn't Want Anybody to Ask What Happened to Vision Pro
- They lost a lot of money
- Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) on Slop and Breach of Confidentiality
- They should absolutely not ignore this
- If You Want More Verifiable (Auditable) Security, Use GNU Linux-Libre
- GNU/Linux will never be 100% secure
- Microsoft XBox Can't Stop Talking About Slop
- Will we see more "prepared" (under embargo) Microsoft propaganda released simultaneously at 9PM tonight?
- Rust Will Not Inherit the Earth, It Barely Deserves a Place on the Planet
- Rust - like Haskell and many other short-lived fetishes - will come and go
- Truth Versus Fiction: IBM's Collapse Due to Money Crunch, Not Slop Disguised as Code
- core issue is financial
- Almost 5,000 Known Gemini Capsules
- It is now just 98 short of 5k
- Priceless leaks found in crowdfunding campaign
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, February 26, 2026
- IRC logs for Thursday, February 26, 2026
- [Video] "New RMS [Richard Stallman] Positive Media" Reaches Millions of Viewers This Week
- Assuming 5+ million people will watch this on the first week, that's good publicity for the Free software movement
- Another Quiet Slop Day Passes By
- the number of slopfarms we can locate/track is fast decreasing
- Gemini Links 26/02/2026: Sending a Thesis and Lupa/Onion ("Lupa now lists Gemini .onion addresses")
- Links for the day
- Links 26/02/2026: Bcachefs Man Bonkers, "Seven Journalists Convicted for Taking Photos at Courtroom"
- Links for the day
- Links 26/02/2026: "Peak Mental Sharpness" and "The Whole Economy Pays the Amazon Tax"
- Links for the day
- If You Value Privacy, Follow the Likes of Eben Moglen, Phil Zimmermann, and Richard Stallman, Not Back Doors' Boosters Who Mislabel Themselves as Security Experts
- Signal is not really secure
- "Community" Site Deleted by Jeffrey Epstein-Connected 'Linux' Foundation Had Interview Where Eben Moglen Spoke of GPLv3 and of DRM, Back Doors Etc.
- Deleting what happened or what was said two decades ago
- Richard Stallman (Free Software Foundation) and Eben Moglen (Columbia Law School) Explained 25 Years Ago That Proprietary Software (and Proprietary Firmware) Would Lead to Back Doors
- a fortnight after the 9/11 terror attacks in the US
- Writer's Block is Not a Problem to Us, Only a Lack of Time
- Or timewasting by aggressive militants who try to silence us [...] People who experience writer's block very often find it depressing (it feels unproductive) and sometimes come to the conclusion that perhaps writing isn't for them
- Giving to the Community Versus Taking From the Community (or Worse, Attacking the Community)
- some people bring no contributions, only harm
- LLM Slop Will Try to 'Rewrite' History of UNIX and GNU/Linux
- We occasionally see slopfarms spreading misinformation about UNIX, GNU, and Linux
- March Plans for Techrights
- next month we plan to start the series about how the SRA failed
- Where Does the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Stand on Machine-Generated Legal Documents and Copy-pasting One Client's Lawsuit to Start Another (for American Serial Strangler)?
- Now that many law firms cheat (copypasta, paper DOoS, LLM slop, breaches of rules, even defaming the other side) the SRA cannot keep up
- Of Course Android is Not Free Software
- That Android is not about freedom should not be so shocking
- Talking About Blackboxes
- Having just reposted a couple of articles from Alex Oliva
- Microsoft Slop is Already Killing XBox
- Microsoft will fail at alleviating such concerns
- Two Weeks Have Passed and It Looks Like Conde Nast's Ars Sloppica Sacked "Senior" "AI" "Reporter" Benj Edwards But Did Not Remove All His LLM-Produced 'Articles'
- the editorial standards at Conde Nast's Ars Sloppica are a joke
- Alex Oliva (GNU Linux-Libre): Stricter is Less Popular
- Reprinted with permission from Alex Oliva
- Fraud and Crimes at Microsoft
- A lot of these American companies simply cheat and even bribe
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, February 25, 2026
- IRC logs for Wednesday, February 25, 2026
- FSF's Alex Oliva on Hardware Black Boxes
- Reprinted with permission from Alex Oliva
