What was New in 1997 on the GNU Web Site
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December 1997
- 24 Dec 97
- In honor of the holidays, we now have information
about Saint IGNUcius
of the Church of Emacs.
- 23 Dec 97
- We have posted an article by Michael Stutz
on Applying
Copyleft To Non-Software Information.
- 23 Dec 97
- We have posted an article on how the GNU project sees Microsoft.
- 1 Dec 97
- Noted on our
Java page, is version 0.6 of
GNU Muffin.
November 1997
- 24 Nov 97
- Added a new page about
GNU Nana, a new utility
for programming debugging assertions.
- 23 Nov 97
- Added a new page about GNU Make.
- 22 Nov 97
- Added a new page about
GNU software and the year 2000.
- 22 Nov 97
- Added a new
mirror site
of this web site
http://www.gnu.org:
October 1997
- 3 Oct 97
- We now have information about
GNU Ghostscript.
August 1997
- 28 Aug 97
- If you are in Europe, you can order FSF books, manuals and
t-shirts through our new European distributor,
GNU Distribution Europe,
Belgium. This facilitates payment, avoids most of the
extra shipping costs, and provides more rapid delivery.
- 21 Aug 97
- GCC, the GNU C Compiler
(which also supports C++, Objective C, Pascal, Fortran 77, and
Ada 9X) now has a web page.
- 21 Aug 97
- Fiasco is being
developed as a replacement for SPSS.
- 19 Aug 97
- Hurd
pages updated to contain new information pertaining to the
0.2 Hurd release and the FSF's new GNUmach distribution, as
well as a pointer to the web pages (not maintained by us) for
the GRUB boot loader.
NEWS files for
the
Hurd and
GNU
Mach have been added.
July 1997
- 25 July 97
- Added an article,
The Right Way to Tax
DAT (22k characters), previously published in Wired
magazine about the tax on DAT machines and tapes: what's wrong
with it and how it ought to be different.
- 20 July 97
- Added a new graphic of a Philosophical Gnu to help identify the
pages on this server that deal with the
philosophy
of the GNU Project.
This Philosophical Gnu was drawn by Markus Gerwinski
<markus@theo-phys.uni-essen.de>, and is similar to the GNU in the GNU Pascal Art.
See The GNU Art Gallery(500k)
for details.
- 20 July 97
- Installed
in The GNU Art Gallery(500k)
some web page backgrounds created by Markus Gerwinski
<markus@theo-phys.uni-essen.de>.
For the reason why we do not use page backgrounds, see
Use of Graphics
in the
Web Site Style Guidelines
(22k characters)
used in designing and authoring this
site.
- 4 July 97
- Arranged for the
GNU Hurd Task List
to be automatically updated from
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tasks/tasks.hurd,
if this file on prep has changed.
- 2 July 97
- Noted on our
Java page,
is the release of version 2.0 of
GNU GraphPanel.
June 1997
- 23 June 97
- Revamped the Guile pages.
- 6 June 97
- Added new contributions to the
master list of Java programs.
- 5 June 97
- Added a
link to an
unofficial
Czech GNU page.
- 1 June 97
- Added a new
mirror site
of this web site
http://www.gnu.org:
It's our first mirror in South America.
May 1997
- 29 May 97
- Added
a list of functions
that are not yet documented in the GNU C library manual.
It would be very helpful if you could spend a bit of your time
on writing the missing parts. Please coordinate your work with
the maintainers
<bug-glibc@gnu.org>.
- 12 May 97
- Added the word
``theft''
to
Some Confusing Words
and Phrases that are Worth Avoiding.
- 7 May 97
- Added a definition of
commercial
software (18k characters).
- 6 May 97
- Added a
master list of Java programs
that have been contributed to the
GNU Project.
- 6 May 97
- Added an explanation of the relationship between
Linux and the GNU system.
- 3 May 97
- Added information about
gzip.
- 2 May 97
- Free software is more
reliable!
April 1997
- 14 Apr 97
- Added a set of pages describing the GNU C Library's
compliance
with various standards.
This list also shows where the C Library needs to be improved.
- 13 Apr 97
- Added a detailed explanation of the patent problems with GIF format
and why we don't use GIF images in the GNU web server.
- 12 Apr 97
- Added an explanation of how both
individuals
and
companies
can
donate to the FSF.
It also explains how you can become a
Patron
of the FSF.
- 12 Apr 97
- The FSF has a new GNU T-shirt for
1997.
- 12 Apr 97
- Added the January 1997
GNU's Bulletin.
- 4 Apr 97
- We thank Stephen McCamant
<alias@mcs.com>
for designing this
logo
for the
GNU Hurd
using
Metafont.
Here is the
source code for this Hurd logo.
March 1997
- 29 Mar 97
- Added a link on the
GNU Software
page to
GNU Enscript
which converts ASCII files to Postscript for printing.
- 20 Mar 97
- Added Selling Free Software,
which explains why selling free software is not a contradiction,
but an important and useful practice.
- 19 Mar 97
- Added a science fiction story,
The Right to
Read,
which shows the kind of world that the Clinton administration
copyright plans lead to.
February 1997
- 15 Feb 97
- Added a link to
Octave, a high-level
interactive language primarily intended for numerical computations,
on the
GNU Software
page.
- 9 Feb 97
- Add Studies Find Reward Often
No Motivator, an article by Alfie Kohn about psychological research
that casts doubt on widespread assumptions about how artificial
rewards affect creative work.
- 5 Feb 97
- Report the cancellation of the Second Conference on
Freely Redistributable Software (February 20-21, 1997).
If you had planned to come to the Conference,
but hadn't registered,
please send email to
<conf97@gnu.org>
and tell us what parts of the Conference you had planned to attend.
(This will help us in planning for future conferences.)
For more information,
see the
updated description.
- 3 Feb 97
- Updated the FSF order form.
- 3 Feb 97
- Added a new
mirror site
of this web site
http://www.gnu.org:
It's our first mirror in North America.
January 1997
- 25 Jan 97
- Version 2.0 of the
GNU C Library has been
announced.
Also see the
extended
announcement.
- 25 Jan 97
- We have renegotiated with the hotel, and have been able to lower the
registration fees
and
hotel room rates
for the
Second
Conference on Freely Redistributable Software
to be held on 20-21 February 1997 at the San Francisco Hilton in
San Francisco, CA, USA.
- 25 Jan 97
- We have added:
for the
Second
Conference on Freely Redistributable Software:
- 21 Jan 97
- Added a page discussing
Porting the GNU C Library.
- 18 Jan 97
- Added a link to
F.A.C.T.Net Inc.,
a non-profit Internet digest, news service, library,
dialogue center, and archive dedicated to the promotion and
defense of international free thought, free speech,
and privacy rights, to our page supporting the
Freedoms
of Speech, Press, and Associationon the Internet.
- 16 Jan 97
- Added a link to the
4th
Tokyo GNU Seminar, on March 11th, 1997.
- 16 Jan 97
- Added a link to
GNU Midnight Commander,
a visual file manager and shell,
on the
Software
page.
- 14 Jan 97
- Added a link to
gpc,
GNU Pascal,
on the
Software
page.
- 12 Jan 97
- Added a new
mirror site
of this web site
http://www.gnu.org:
- 12 Jan 97
- Added a
section
listing GNU FAQs
(Frequently Asked Questions)
to the GNU
Documentation
page.
- 12 Jan 97
- Added a link to the GNU
Chess
FAQ on the GNU
Documentation
and
Software
page.
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