What was New in 1998 on the GNU Web Site
December 1998
- 30 December 1998
- Added the GNU C Library
Reference Manual to the list of online
manuals.
- 19 December 1998
- Added
Oberon V4
to our software page.
Added Ulm's Modula-2
System to our software page.
- 16 December 1998
- Added ht://Dig as an adopted
program for use in the GNU system to our
software page.
- 15 December 1998
- Added a note on the home page that our
earlier report on the Wassenaar agreement was a false alarm. New
information indicates that the agreement will not be applied to
free software.
Added Loyd Fuestons article,
"Is
Self-Interest Sufficient to Organize an Free Economy?" to our
philosophy page.
Added gleem
to our software page.
- 13 December 1998
- Noted on our Java page are
Jtar, a Java implementation
of GNU tar, Mtftp,
a TFTP client, djinn,
a daemon wrapper for Java programs under Unix, and
Kiev,
a compiler that extends and unites the Java and Prolog languages.
- 11 December 1998
- Noted that Richard Stallman's speech
in Japan is on December 14th on our main page.
Added Greg to our software page.
- 10 December 1998
- Added a link
to a project aiming to eliminate "fuzz bugs" from GNU software to our
reliability page.
Added some wise words by Samuel Adams to our
philosophy page.
Added
ytalk
to our software page.
- 9 December 1998
- Added two pages containing the
German original
and English translation
of the speech given by
Georg C. F. Greve
at the CLOWN (Cluster of Working Nodes, a 512 node GNU/Linux Cluster)
in Paderborn, Germany.
Added a link to Alliance
from our software page.
- 8 December 98
- Added the posibility to use rsync to mirror www.gnu.org. Look at
our advice for mirrors for more
information.
Added search to our
main page.
- 4 December 98
- Added a page about GNU m4.
Added information about
Richard Stallman's
speach at NAIST in Japan to our index page.
Added a few pages about EDMA
to our software page.
November 1998
- 25 November 1998
- Added a flash to the SVLUG speech
that Richard Stallman will hold on
the 2nd of December to our index page.
Noted on our Java page are
JAO, a
CORBA implementation,
JSP, an
implementation of Java server pages, and
RobotWar,
a robot combat programming game.
- 24 November 1998
- Updated the page about
Microsoft to comment on the significance of the ``Halloween
documents''.
- 18 November 1998
- Added Russian
translation of the GNU Manifesto.
- 14 November 1998
- Added
japanese translation
of Richard Stallman's speech at the Royal Institute of
Technology in Sweden, 1986.
- 14 November 1998
- Added SmallEiffel
to our software page.
- 13 November 1998
- Added
http://gnu.archive.sunet.se
as a Swedish mirror to our
mirrors page.
- 6 November 1998
- Added http://gnu.mirrors.com.br
as a Brazilian mirror to our
mirrors page.
- 1 November 1998
- Added a link to the German
translation of the GNU manifesto.
- Added a link to GPLed
fonts from the
ghostscript page.
- Added omniORB to our
software page.
- Added
new
material to the page that explains why the term
``free
software'' is better than ``open source''.
- Added a page about UDI (the
Uniform Driver Interace project) and why this is not beneficial for
free software.
- Posted an old essay by Richard Stallman,
Why Software Should Be
Free.
- Added a serious bio
of Richard Stallman to his home page.
October 1998
- 26 October 98
- Added compare
to our software page.
- 26 October 98
- Added rsync
to our software page.
- 26 October 98
- Added GNU SQL
to our software page.
- 26 October 98
- Added
Tvset to our
software page.
- 26 October 98
- Added a link to an article about
Netscape's
decision to release sourcecode free on our
philosophy page.
The article is in German.
- 25 October 98
- Added
Jonas Öberg
and Joel N. Weber II to
the webmasters page.
- 24 October 98
- Added
A Russian translation
of the GPL to the Copyleft page.
- 24 October 98
- Added
Playmidi to our
software page.
- 24 October 98
- Added ASCII versions of the
GPL (18k characters) and
LGPL (25k characters) licenses
to our copyleft page.
- 24 October 98
- Added
Harmony to our
software page.
- 24 October 98
- Added a link to
The Free Science Campaign
in our philosophy page.
- 24 October 98
- Added a link to
Cyber Radio 1
in our software page.
- 24 October 98
- Added a link to
SANE in our
software page.
- 23 October 98
- Changed the copyright notice on all pages
- 22 October 98
- Added Peter McLachlans coloured Typing GNU Hacker
to our graphics page.
- 21 October 98
- Added a link to
MHonArc
in our software page.
- 21 October 98
- Added
GNU Robots
- 21 October 98
- Added an article about
stack overflow with the
GNU acronym.
- 19 October 98
- Added a link to
VNC in our
software page.
- 15 October 98
- Updated the
Ghostscript
pages.
- 7 October 98
- Noted in The
X Windows Trap that the Open group recently decided to
release X11R6.4 as non-copyleft
free software.
September 1998
- 27 Sept 98
- Noted on our
Java page is
JavaDeps, a package for
automatic dependency tracking in Java.
- 7 Sept 98
- Noted on our Java page are
JEL,
a library for evaluating a simple single line expressions in Java and
JLINT,
a Java program checker.
August 1998
- 27 August 98
- As of September 1, 1998, we will be shipping copies of the
GNU Software for MS-Windows and MS-DOS
book with CD-ROM.
- 21 August 98
- We have made several updates to the
GNU Hurd pages, including
links to a new page about
Debian GNU/Hurd and
a recent version of the GNU
Hurd Reference Manual.
- 11 August 98
- We have added a page for Gush,
the GNU User's Shell.
- 2 August 98
- We have added a page for the Diction package,
which is now in development.
July 1998
- 26 July 98
- We have added a page for the Xlogmaster.
- 20 July 98
- We have added a page explaining why free software needs
free manuals.
- 20 July 98
- We have added a page about nominations for the first Free Software Award.
- 14 July 98
- We have added a page about the
X Window System and copyleft.
- 8 July 98
- The GNU Distribution Europe
order form has been updated. Prices have been reduced slightly
on many items.
- 6 July 98
- Added the Free Software
Song.
May 1998
- 27 May 98
- Noted on our Java page is
Rex a fast regular expression library for Java.
- 25 May 98
- We have added a page
containing testimonials supplied by business users of GNU software.
- 11 May 98
- Installed HTMLized versions of the GNU's Bulletins.
- 9 May 98
- We added a link to
Read
Them And Weep, by Simson Garfinkel.
This article talks about pending bills that would
give information owners sweeping new powers,
and restrict the activities of computer users.
- 5 May 98
- Added a link to
TOCHNOG
to our software page.
- 4 May 98
- Updated the plotutils page.
April 1998
- 30 Apr 98
- Added the March 1998 GNU's Bulletin
- 19 Apr 98
- Noted on our Java page, are:
- Command line option parsing for Java
- Pixie, a small, fast file format for scalable vector images
- jspread, a simple and extendable spreadsheet class
- A self printing Java program
- radio_db, a radiological image database
- tox_db, a toxicology literature database
- 17 Apr 98
- We have added a page explaining why the BSD
license is particularly bad and should not be imitated.
- 17 Apr 98
- We have added a page explaining how copyleft functions as a
pragmatic measure
to help bring us more free software.
- 9 Apr 98
- We have added a page about plotutils.
- 4 Apr 98
- We have installed a search engine on our site.
March 1998
- 31 Mar 98
- We have added an explanation of why it is best to avoid using the term
Intellectual
Property.
- 28 Mar 98
- We have added a page about Checker,
a GNU package that works with
gcc to catch memory use
errors in a program.
- 20 Mar 98
- We have added a page about
the
problems of Netscape's draft free software distribution terms.
- 20 Mar 98
- We have added a page about
XaoS, a real-time fractal zoomer.
- 13 Mar 98
- We have added a page about
GNU libtool,
which facilitates developing and maintaining shared libraries.
- 10 Mar 98
- We have raised the price of GNU T-shirts to $18. This is so that
selling T-shirts will continue to be effective for raising funds
for GNU development.
- 10 Mar 98
- Xfree86 now has support for GNU/HURD.
- 8 Mar 98
- We have added a page describing
Ncurses,
which is finally free software, and now GNU software.
- 3 Mar 98
- Noted on our Java page,
is
Regular Expressions
For Java.
February 1998
- 26 Feb 98
- Noted on our Java page,
is a Java interface to the GDBM library.
- 23 Feb 98
- Added a new page on
"open source
software" or "free software"?
- Added a reference to a new page on GNU
automake.
- 22 Feb 98
- Noted on our Java page,
is JMK.
JMK is an
interactive Make application written in Java with similiarities to
GNU Make.
- 16 Feb 98
- We now have a page about the
GNU Emacs editor.
- 5 Feb 98
- We now have a page about the GDB
Manual.
January 1998
- 30 Jan 98
- A new GNU T-shirt is available.
- 29 Jan 98
- We have added a page about Netscape and the possibility
that it may make
the Netscape web browser free software.
- 28 Jan 98
- We have updated the Thank GNUs page.
- 28 Jan 98
- We have updated the GCC page
for the release of GCC 2.8.0.
- 28 Jan 98
- We have added a link to
The
Free Music Philosophy, by Ram Samudrala.
- 27 Jan 98
- We have added an explanation of how you can
donate
to the GNU Project via the United Way and about
raising
donations for developing Display Ghostscript.
- 17 Jan 98
- We have added an explanation of why free software users
should stay off the
Java bandwagon.
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