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
- If You Don't Control Your Online Platform, Then Someone Else is Controlling You
- be (or become) independent
- The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Has a Policy on Racism and Sexism
- In then future we'll show the misogyny and racial slurs
- Links 22/09/2025: Murdochs Might Join Fentanylware (TikTok) 'Investors' (Masters), United Kingdom Recognises Palestinian Statehood
- Links for the day
- The 50-Pound Note Experiment and the "War on Cash"
- Britain is actually seeing a rebound in cash payments, and it's not a temporary phenomenon
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- What Scares Them the Most is Independent News Sites That They Cannot Control and Censor
- Wikileaks was a good example of this
- Oracle Started This Year With Slop. Then It Stopped.
- Passing fads are like this
- Distros That Run on PCs Made 20 Years Ago and Don't Use Systemd
- Betas for now
- The Complaint About Brett Wilson LLP - Part I - Abusing British Women on Behalf of American Men Who Abuse American Women
- Transparency is important to us, so we've decided to make this series
- Slopwatch: Google News and the Evident Slopfarm Infestation
- This is what people get about Linux when they query Google for Linux
- Gemini Links 22/09/2025: Esperanto Music History and Apps For Android
- Links for the day
- Links 22/09/2025: More American 'Censorship' (Retaliation for Journalism), Cheeto "Might Be Losing His Race Against Time"
- Links for the day
- The Blob Slop
- Give me more words, give me some text
- Slopwatch: Blaming the Victims for Microsoft's Failures and Plagiarising Phoronix
- That's what Google has been reduced to: slop and slopfarms
- Links 22/09/2025: Breaches, Windows TCO, and Arrests
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 22/09/2025: Rabbit Hole and DeGoogling Fairphone
- Links for the day
- Links 22/09/2025: Russian War Planes Invade NATO Airspace While Dihydroxyacetone Man Escalates Attack on Free Speech Because of Critics
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, September 21, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, September 21, 2025
- Links 21/09/2025: "Hey Hi" (Hype) Under Fire, Fakes Identified; Tesla Burns Family
- Links for the day
- Google's Software is Malware and Malware in Mobile Devices
- Originally posted by Rob Musial
- Links 20/09/2025: Hegemony Coming to a Close, Luigi Mangione Ruled Not Terrorist
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 21/09/2025: "Charlie Kirk Was a Hateful Piece of Shit" and Slop Code Attempted by Microsofter
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, September 20, 2025
- IRC logs for Saturday, September 20, 2025
- Gemini Links 20/09/2025: Snowy Photos and utism is a Spectrum
- Links for the day
- Microsoft-Sponsored Xenophobia and Nationalism
- IBM is very similar in this regard
- Vintage is Sometimes Better
- Why can't we get back to "simple" if (or where) "simple" means better?
- Climate Breakdown Means We'll be Publishing More, Not Less
- Press freedom will be a common, recurring theme
- Our 5-Year Geminispace Anniversary is Coming Up
- I still remember when Gemini Protocol was quite new
- It's Right to Point Out Violence From the Right
- Violence is a recurring theme
- Tentative Summary of Things to Publish in Project 2030
- I'll still be in my forties by then
- Web Browsers That "Do Hey Hi" (AI)
- State-of-the-art plagiarism or "autocomplete on steroids" (not coined by us, nevertheless a nice description) don't have much/any prospect
- Links 20/09/2025: Hardware Projects in View, Some Independent Publishers About Russia Prosper After Cheeto Cuts Funding
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 20/09/2025: Options and TV Time Machine
- Links for the day
- Links 20/09/2025: Retrocomputer, Antique Phone Experience, and More
- Links for the day
- Links 20/09/2025: Internet Shutdowns, Media Censorship, and Climate Worries
- Links for the day
- About 700 New Gemini Capsules in 13 Months (or 54 Per Month)
- 4.8K would represent a 20% increase
- Rust People: Drain the Swap, You're Holding It Wrong
- Does Rust make sense?
- Techrights the Name Turns 15
- About 6 weeks from now we turn 19
- Microsoft is Running Out of Time and Floating Fake Figures, Fake Projects, Fake Narratives, Fake Excuses
- Also, a lot of Microsoft's "revenue" claims are circular financing (i.e. Microsoft buying from itself, which means Ponzi-like fraud)
- Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, linuxconfig.org, and Plagiarised Phoronix
- Many articles out there are nowadays fake
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 19, 2025
- IRC logs for Friday, September 19, 2025
- Gemini Links 20/09/2025: Navigating the Pressures of Modern Life and SpellBinding Accidentally Wrote Another Gemini Server
- Links for the day