What was New in 1999 on the GNU Web Site
December 1999
- 30 December 1999
- Added a research paper,
The
GNU Project FTP Site: A Digital Collection Supporting a
Social Movement by Michelle Bejian, to our
philosophy section.
- 19 December 1999
- Updated the page about the Amazon
Patent with new information.
- 18 December 1999
- Heavily updated our list of
Various Licenses and
Comments About Them.
- 15 December 1999
- Added the announcement
of Miguel de Icaza receiving the second
``Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software''
from the Free Software Foundation.
- Added links to both
APE
and
ACS
from our software page.
- 14 December 1999
- Added Boycott Amazon! to our
philosophy section.
- 11 December 1999
- Added a link to an
interview
from Linux Magazine
with Richard Stallman
on our philosophy page.
- Added both SXML
and
Tiny COBOL
to our software page.
- 10 December 1999
- Added GNU Cim, a
compiler for the Simula language, to
our Software page.
- Added Hello World !
to the Humor Page.
- 9 December 1999
- A patch release of GNU
Libtool (version 1.3.4) is now
available.
- 6 December 1999
- A new release of GNU
grep (version 2.4) is now
available.
- 2 December 1999
- Added even more information about the
GNU CVS Repository.
- 1 December 1999
- Updated the Coming Events page with
information about Richard
Stallman's talk on Tuesday, 7th Dec 1999.
- Updated the GNU Development Resources
page to include information on subversions.gnu.org (the new
CVS server) and its
CVSweb interface.
- The first beta release of GNU
adns, 0.6 is now
available.
November 1999
- 27 November 1999
- Added a link to World Trade Organization/GATT
from our links page.
- 23 November 1999
- Added
Development,
Ethical Trading, and Free Software
by Danny Yee, to our
philosophy
page.
- 22 November 1999
- Added MIT Photonic-Bands
package to our software
page.
- Added the FSF award
nominees page to our web-site
- 21 November 1999
- Added Allegro
to our software page.
- 20 November 1999
- Added link to the Fun page
to our home page.
- 17 November 1999
- Added GNU Chess FAQ
to our chess
page.
- Added Does
Studying Economics Inhibit Cooperation? by Frank, et al
to our Philosophy
section
- 13 November 1999
- Added Xfce and
EsounD to
our software page.
- 10 November 1999
- GNU Octal is a new
GNU Project to
create a set of free components that work
together as a digital music workstation for unix-like
systems.
- Issue 9 of the Brave GNU World, the
monthly GNU column has been released.
- 9 November 1999
- Mailman 1.1
is now available.
- 6 November 1999
- Updated our
Free Software Award page with
a list of the nominees we have received.
- Added Spanish and Russian translations of several of our
philosophy
pages.
- Added GRASS GIS
and
NURBS++
to our list of software.
- 5 November 1999
- We have created a list of ongoing free software development
projects that can use more help.
Please see our new
Projects
page for more information. If you are interested in
contributing to these projects,
or for lists of other free software projects needing help,
please look at our
writing free software page.
October 1999
- 31 October 1999
- GNU Pth 1.2 (the GNU Portable Threads) is now available.
- 30 October 1999
- The House of Representatives is about to vote on legislation
that would grant sweeping new powers for trademark holders and
undermine the rights of domain name holders, Internet users,
and small businesses.
Read more in this Action Alert
from Marc Rotenberg.
- 27 October 1999
- Trueprint 5.1 is now available.
- PIKT, Problem
Informant/Killer Tool, version 1.7.0 is now available.
- Version 1.0 of the
GNU GPL is now available online.
- Added Fltk to our
software page.
- 21 October 1999
- Added GNU
Sauce to our software page.
- 19 October 1999
- GNU Sather 1.2.0 is
available.
- A new public release of GNU
adns, 0.5 ALPHA, is now available.
- GNU userv 0.65.2 BETA
is now released.
- 14 October 1999
- We have created a list of GNU projects that are
actively seeking more help. If you are interested
in helping the GNU project, please have a look
at our Help
Wanted page.
- 11 October 1999
- Added Mailman to our
software page.
- Phantom.Security, a computer
controlled security system has been released.
- Phantom.Home, a computer controlled
home automation has been released.
- 10 October 1999
- Added
libxmi-1.1.1
to our software page.
libxmi
is a new standalone library for rasterizing 2-D vector
graphics, based on the machine-independent graphics code in the
X11 sample server.
- 9 October 1999
- Volunteers needed
to assist in promoting Free software at
the FSF booths in Europe and the U.S.
next week.
- 8 October 1999
- Plotutils-2.3
is now available. The new version can export vector graphics
files in WebCGM format.
- 2 October 1999
- GNU Chess 5.00, a total
from-the-ground-up rewrite, is now available.
- Added NSBD
to our software page.
- Added AIDE,
BTL,
GeneWeb,
GMT,
iGMT,
MAM/VRS,
and Yabasic to our
software page.
- Added LPE and
s-lang to our
software page.
September 1999
- 29 September 1999
- Added GNU Parted to our software page.
- 28 September 1999
- Added links to Save the Web from various pages.
- 27 September 1999
- Added Changetrack to our software page.
- 23 September 1999
- Added information about the new
<pth-users@gnu.org> support
mailing list to the GNU Pth
page.
- Updated the Coming Events page.
- 19 September 1999
- Put new issue of the Brave GNU World online.
- 16 September 1999
- Added gEDA to our software section.
- 14 September 1999
- Added Coldstore to our software section.
- Added Elegant to our software section.
- 10 September 1999
- Added pages for LilyPond
to our software section.
- Noted on our Java page is
UDE, a combination
UML Case Tool and IDE.
- 7 September 1999
- Noted on our Java page are
JBiff, a Java
implementation of XBiff, and
Linguist,
a framework and organizational tool for Java.
- 6 September 1999
- Noted on our Java page are
Alma, an
an interactive tool for the modelling source code in several languages,
HtmlParser,
a JavaCC grammar for parsing HTML documents,
JAMS,
a fully functioning SMTP mail server,
NFSI, a
Java-based NFS server, and
WebMacro,
a HTML template engine and back end servlet development framework.
- 4 September 1999
- Updated our page with job openings
- Added a Spanish translation of our main
page and many other pages.
Contact
<webmasters@gnu.org>
if you wish to help translating web pages into other languages.
August 1999
- 31 August 1999
- Added page with GNU Art from
Brendon Gleeson.
- Added a page about what to do
if you see a violation of the GPL.
- Added a link to The Death
and Rebirth of Plagiarism by Rodney Riegle to our
philosophy page.
(We don't entirely agree with this article--we think there is no
harm in asking people to make some extra effort
to write ``footnotes'' to give credit.)
- 27 August 1999
- Added a page about the GNU Enterprise project.
- 23 August 1999
- Added a page containing source code
to some programs used to maintain the GNU webserver.
- 22 August 1999
- Added units to our
software page.
- Added Sather to
our software page.
- 14 August 1999
- Added a link to the
LinuxWorld
interview with Richard Stallman.
- 12 August 1999
- Released 6th issue of the Brave GNU World.
- Started the
"We
run GNU" Initiative (caution: this page is graphics-heavy).
- 11 August 1999
- GNU Emacs has won the
award as best text editing tool in the LinuxWorld Editors' Choice
Awards. The GIMP won the
Graphics/Art category.
- 7 August 1999
- Added GNU Banner to our
graphics page.
- 4 August 1999
- Added Harbour
to our software page.
- Added a link to
Imagined
Electronic Community: Representations of Virtual Community in
Contemporary Business Discourse to our
philosophy page.
- 3 August 1999
- GNU Go won second place in the
1999
US Computer Go Championship at the US Go Congress in
San Francisco. Details are on the
GNU Go development page.
July 1999
- 31 July 1999
- Added "U.S. Congress
Threatens to Establish a New Kind of Monopoly" by
Richard Stallman.
- 29 July 1999
- Added GTKeyboard
to the software page.
- Updated the Coming Events page.
- Added Trueprint
to the software page.
- Added Initial Announcement
of the GNU Project.
- 18 July 1999
- Added a Japanese translation
of the GNU GRUB page.
- 14 July 1999
- Issue #5 of the
Brave GNU World
has been released.
- 08 July 1999
- Added GNU GRUB to our
software page.
- 04 July 1999
- Added webpages for the new GNU Portable Threads
and added link to our software page.
June 1999
- 25 June 1999
- Added webpages for the new GNU shtool
and added link to our software page.
- 21 June 1999
- Added Saving Europe from Software
Patents to our philosophy
page.
- 19 June 1999
- Added WML to our
software page.
- Added w3m
to our software page.
- 4 June 1999
- Added information from the GNU Project Testimonials booklet to
our GNU Testimonials
page.
May 1999
- 30 May 1999
- Added GDB to the list of
online manuals.
- 28 May 1999
- Added Xmcd to our
software page.
- 22 May 1999
- Added GNU Cgicc to our
software page.
- Added a page about making hyperlinks
to the GNU home page to our how to
help the GNU Project page.
- 16 May 1999
- Added a a diagram
showing relationship between different categories of software.
- 14 May 1999
- Added ACE and
TAO to our
software page.
- Added a link to
The
Manifesto: Piracy is Your Friend by Jaron Lanier to our
philosophy page
(Note that the GNU Project recommends
avoiding the term
piracy since
it implies that sharing copies is somehow illegitimate).
- Released third issue
of the
Brave GNU World
and made its structure comply to content negotiation.
- Added a Korean
translation of the GNU Manifesto.
- Added FarsiTeX to our
software page.
- 12 May 1999
- Added gPhoto to our
software page.
- 8 May 1999
- Added the GNU Lesser General
Public License (also available as
text), succeeding the
GNU Library General Public License.
April 1999
- 30 April 1999
- Added FreeS/WAN
to our software page.
- Added The
Microsoft Antitrust Trial and Free Software article to
our philosophy section.
- 24 April 1999
- Added gas and the
BFD library to the list of
online manuals.
- 23 April 1999
- Added the Free Software Job page.
- 18 April 1999
- Added GYVE to our
software page.
- 15 April 1999
- Released second issue of the
Brave GNU World,
the monthly GNU column. The column is available in English, German
and French.
- 11 April 1999
- Added Maverik to our
software page.
- 10 April 1999
- Added some GNU art from John Bokma
to our graphics page.
- Added a link to http://www.emacs.org/
from our GNU Emacs page.
- 5 April 1999
- Updated the definition
of free software to deal with a number of additional issues.
March 1999
- 28 March 1999
- Added a translation of the GPL into
Romanian to our
copyleft page.
- Added CGI::WeT
to our software page.
- Added a link to Educational
Free Software which is a new project aimed at making GNU/Linux
a reasonable alternative for schools of all ages.
- Added Grace
to our software page.
- Added bookland.py to
our software page.
- Added eFax to our
software page.
- 27 March 1999
- Added http://www.free-soft.org/mirrors/www.gnu.org/ as a GNU
mirror.
- Added Pliant to our
software page.
- Added http://gnu.sinica.edu.tw/
as a GNU mirror.
- Added http://freedom.sarang.net/
as a GNU mirror.
- Added The APSL Problems to our
philosophy page.
- Added a link to the Funding
Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure
from our links page.
- 20 March 1999
- Added Patent
Reform Is Not Enough to our
philosophy section. This
article was first published in the
GNU's Bulletin, vol. 1 no. 13.
- 19 March 1999
- Added GNU Prolog to our
software list in the section
with unfinished GNU software.
- 18 March 1999
- Released first issue of the Brave GNU World, the monthly GNU column in English and German.
- 14 March 1999
- Added a Finnish translation
of the GPL to our page about copyleft.
- Added Mozart to our
software page.
- Added httptunnel
to our software page.
- Added GnuPG to our
software page.
- Added a french translation
of The Right to Read.
- 12 March 1999
- Noted on our Java page is
jX4, a Java-based
Virtual World engine.
- 10 March 1999
- Added a pointer to EGCS
on our GCC page.
- 8 March 1999
- Noted on our Java page are
Jot,
a class that does character-by-character input,
a class for file locking,
a class for FTP from an applet, and an applet for decoding
satanic messages. All contributed by
Peter van der Linden.
- 6 March 1999
- Added a mirror in Spain
to our list of mirrors.
- Added the Classpath 0.0
announcement to our Classpath page.
- 3 March 1999
- Added a note about the GNOME 1.0
release to our main page.
February 1999
- 28 February 1999
- Added the Filters
project to our software page.
- Added RAT to our software page.
- Added Free Film Project to our
software page.
- Added The GNU Project to our
philosophy page. It is
written by Richard Stallman and was
originally published in the book "Open Sources".
- Added Maverik
to our software page.
- Noted on our Java page are
JATLite,
Kiwi,
Xfiles, and
the Paperclips Java Servlet Server.
- 20 February 1999
- Added Gale to our software page.
- Updated our java page.
- Added a list of Java
software.
- Added Linux-Kontor to our
Java software page.
- Added an unofficial
Slovenian
translation of the GPL to the
copyleft page.
- 14 February 1999
- Added "Why you shouldn't use
the Library GPL for your next library" to our philosophy page.
- Added MRTG
to our software page.
- Added RRD
TOOL to our software page.
- Added GPKCS-11 to our
list of
unfinished
GNU projects.
- Added Autogen to our
software page.
- Added Autochar to our
software page.
- 13 February 1999
- Added FIJI to our
Java page.
- Added a page about
Gnumeric
- 11 February 1999
- Added
DGPS-ip
to our software page.
- Added the Funding
Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure
to our Other
Sites page.
- 10 February 1999
- Added Dr. Geo to our
software page.
- Added Backgammon to our
software page.
- Added OpenBIOS to our
software page.
- Added Jabber to our
software page.
- Added Esh to our
software page.
- 9 February 1999
- Added
Aegis
to our software page.
- Added Cook
to our software page.
- 7 February 1999
- Added Mats Weber's
Ada
Components to our software
page.
- Added Gale to our
software page.
- Noted on our Java page is
Mtftp version 0.6.
- 4 February 1999
- Updated the article on the
Netscape NPL to cover the
actual version of that license rather than a prerelease draft.
(This update was long overdue; we apologize for the delay.)
January 1999
- 30 January 1999
- Added a link to
Eldred
v. Reno, which is about a lawsuit to overturn a law
that extends copyright by 20 extra years, to our
philosophy page.
- Added a link to R from
our software page.
- 23 January 1999
- Added People, places,
things and ideas to our
philosophy page.
- Added
fastDNAml
to our software page.
- Added the
Free
Expression project to our
software page.
- Updated the list of tasks to work on
for the GNU project web server.
- 22 January 1999
- Added austrian
mirror of the GNU webserver to our
list of mirrors.
- Added Flight Gear to the
list of software.
- Added PIKT to the list
of software.
- 16 January 1999
- Added
UltraSonix
to our software page.
- 8 January 1999
- Updated the page about the
Wassenaar agreement with
information from Finland, Denmark and how people in the UK can help.
- 5 January 1999
- Added link to the
transcription of
Richard Stallman's
speech at the University of Paris in November 1998 to our
philosophy page.
- Added a section for
unfinished
GNU Software projects to our
software page.
- Added catdoc to
our software page.
- Added E to our software page.
- Added Turkey mirror of the
GNU webserver to our list of
mirrors.
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