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
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 136 Out of 200: Lawyers That Get Paid to Mess About
- They were already outnumbered and understaffed
-
- Newer Not Better: Treadmill Updates Cause Problems
- after 2 years the un-updated machines still fine
- The Cyber Show on the Slop Bubble
- new article about the implosion of the slop bubble
- Links 01/08/2026: New York Times Trying to Inflate the Slop Pyramid Scheme (at Cost to Its Own Reputation) and "Iran Appears to Be Blasting Amazon Data Centers Off the Map"
- Links for the day
- Positive Political Momentum
- Daniel Pocock is taken seriously by many people who contact us privately
- Google "AI" is Plagiarism, the Case of Richard Stallman (RMS)
- Why would anyone choose LLM slop over the originals, curated and fact-checked by domain experts?
- Explaining That Software Patents Are Neither Legal Nor Desirable
- Many of our readers work in the legal sector
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 31, 2026
- IRC logs for Friday, July 31, 2026
- Gemini Links 01/08/2026: Retirement, Bike Trips, Quake Stuff, Usenet Reborn
- Links for the day
- Links 31/07/2026: Microsoft Now Says Slop is Bad (LinkedIn Cracks Down on It), LinkedIn Narrows Down Size (No Expansion)
- Links for the day
- European Patent Office (EPO) Series: From Alicante to Munich: Another Smooth Ride
- Campinos is intent on transforming what was originally envisaged as a temporary public office into his own permanent personal feather-bed
- Daniel Pocock and the Important Observation About Threats of Cult-Like Behaviours (No Rationality, No Reason, Just "Mob Rule")
- It's a threat to Europe's sovereignty
- The "PIP Parade" of IBM's Lousy Management, Which Said "Blockchain" Was the Future
- In a healthy company such a CEO would be punished for utterly wrong visions and predictions. Not at IBM...
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 135 Out of 200: Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) That Does Not Disclose Financial Activities Before August
- It certainly looks like they keep losing the remaining women that still exist in the firm
- Links 31/07/2026: "Climate Cover-Up Continues" and Pesticides "Cook the Planet"
- Links for the day
- Datacentre 'Boom' Sceptics Aren't Luddites, They Recognise a Threat to Human Survival (Not Limited to Climate Change)
- Archaeologists very well know that no species will survive forever
- Microsoft's Claims Are Based on a Big Lie
- the bubble is coming to its hard limits
- Don't Lose Sight of the Impact of "End of 10" (Vista 10)
- GNU/Linux has taken off fast
- Microsoft's Debt Continues to Steadily Increase, Not Counting Hundreds of Billions in Secret/Hidden Debt
- The mass layoffs will carry on, maybe labelled LITE
- IBM is Circling Down the Drain, the 'Growth' Comes From Beancounting Tricks and Salary Cuts
- IBM was down 2.17% yesterday
- Microsoft's "Headcount" Distracts From How Big a Cull It Had This Month
- It also speaks of numbers "[a]s of June 30" though the "buyouts" were effective July 1 and since then well over 10,000 workers have vanished
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 30, 2026
- IRC logs for Thursday, July 30, 2026
- Gemini Links 31/07/2026: Music, Journaling, and Longing
- Links for the day
- More Fake News From (and for) IBM, Nobody Ever Held Accountable for Fraud
- Companies that turn a blind eye to their own corruption end up recruiting more corrupt people and sacking those who object to the corruption
- Links 30/07/2026: Smol Document Server and More PalmOS-ing
- Links for the day
- Links 30/07/2026: Microsoft Refuting Its Own Slop Hype and "Amazon Is Gutting Its Hey Hi (AI) Division" (GAFAM Bubble)
- Links for the day
- Today The Register MS Published "AI" Spam and Fake Article by "Senior Technical Marketing Engineer"
- unethical practices
- Cult inquiry parliament leak fallout
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Techrights Will Always Protect Sources
- Our #1 priority is sources
- European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Legal Concerns and Suspicions of Irregularities
- complaints submitted to OLAF
- The Era of Silence
- So stay silent, remain hidden
- GAFAM and IBM Dying in Massive Debt, Hence the Mass Layoffs (Increasingly Silent Layoffs That the Media Fails to Mention)
- the integrity of this economy is only as good as its leaders or those who govern the market
- TheLayoff.com Deletes Comment That Called IBM's Previous CEO, Ginni Rometty, "Gin 'n Tonic"
- It is hard to believe the comment was deleted for being a duplicate (in another thread)
- The Mainstream Media Continues to Overlook or Intentionally Ignore Hundreds of Billions in Hidden/Secret Microsoft Debt
- the issue is that Microsoft's crisis is a lot greater and broader than this
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 134 Out of 200: What "Majority Rules" Tell Us About the Litigant
- we press on with this series
- Overshoot Day Sites That Contribute to the Problem
- Some of these are not even accessible (at all) without JavaScript
- Microsoft May Have Gotten Rid of 8% of Its Workforce This Month
- It's hard to know what's really going on because there's no transparency due to NDAs
- Links 30/07/2026: "Age of Irrationality", Google Losing Money, and "House of Ellison is on the Brink"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 30/07/2026: Homeworlds Notes and Manuscript Submitted
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, July 29, 2026
- IRC logs for Wednesday, July 29, 2026