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 LLM Bubble is About to Implode, Gimmicks and Financial Shell Games Cannot Prevent That, Only Delay It
- To inflate the bubble MElon is now doing the classic trick of buying from oneself for a fictional value
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- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 30, 2025
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- Links 30/03/2025: Security Breaches, Crackdowns on Dissent/Rival Politicians
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- Gemini Links 30/03/2025: London Soundtrack Festival, Superbloom, gmiCAPTCHA
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- Phasing Out Vista 10 in Nations Where ~90% of Windows Users Still Rely on It
- Recipe for another Microsoft disaster
- The Cost of Pursuing the Much-Needed Reform/Shield Against Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs)
- “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
- Links 30/03/2025: Contagious Ideas, Signal Leak, and Squashing Lousy Patents
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- Links 30/03/2025: "Quantum Randomness" and "F-1 Visa Revoked" in US
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- Gemini Links 30/03/2025: US as a Threat, Returning to the WWW
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- Links 30/03/2025: Judge Blocks Dismantling Of VOA, Turkey Arrested Many Journalists
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- Judges Would Never Rule for Men Who Strangle Women or Against Women Who Merely Wrote Articles About Abuse They Had Received From Men
- We don't intend to do "trial by media", so we won't be disclosing claims and defences until it's over
- Windows is an Unnatural Disaster, It is Also Avoidable
- there's a wide window of opportunity opening
- Gemini Links 29/03/2025: Less YouTube and More Station
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- In Some Countries, Such as Thailand, Firefox is Already Measured at Less Than 2% (One Day Firefox Will Get Blocked, Not Only Lack Support)
- Web consolidation around Chrom-isms will doom the Web as we know it
- Killing the News With Spam and Slop Benefits Those Whose Desire is an Uninformed Population
- adoption of Free software depends indirectly on political activities/activism
- Links 29/03/2025: Trademarks Battles, Fires Destroy More Than 3,000 South Korean Homes
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- Open Source Initiative (OSI) Privacy Fiasco in Detail: An Introduction
- Perhaps tomorrow or perhaps next week we'll share more information about what happened and what was reported to the California Privacy Protection Agency
- Links 29/03/2025: More Crackdowns on Science, "Hey Hi" Slopping is Flopping
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- IBM's BS (Bait, Switch) Regarding Ways to Stay Onboard
- PIPs, RTOs, and forced relocations are just an illusion of choice (or ability to recover)
- Costa Rica Almost Bankrupt Because of Microsoft
- the incidents in Costa Rica are Windows incidents
- Gemini Links 29/03/2025: Art of Looking, Wireguard, EMacs
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- Links 29/03/2025: Attacks on Social Security and War Updates
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- Banned evidence: Ars Technica forums censored email predicting DebConf23 death, Abraham Raji & Debian cover-up
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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