GNU Spotlight May 2009

Originally published in the Free Software Foundation's Free Software Supporter - Issue 14, May 2009:
GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry

  • coreutils-7.3
  • CSSC-1.2.0
  • findutils-4.4.1
  • freeipmi-0.7.8
  • gcc-4.4.0
  • glpk-4.38
  • gmp-4.3.0
  • gnu-c-manual-0.2
  • libtasn1-2.1
  • libunistring-0.9
  • psychosynth-0.1.5
  • sed-4.2
  • sipwitch-0.5.4
  • solfege-3.14.3
  • sqltutor-0.6
  • swbis-1.3
  • ucommon-2.0.5
  • zile-2.3.7

See the packages' announcements, web pages (http://www.gnu.org/software/PKGNAME) or the distributions themselves for details. Nearly all are available from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/, or preferably one of its mirrors (http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html).

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I'd like to give a warm welcome to Tim Musson, author and maintainer of the new GNU packages gxmessage and ignuit.

Several GNU packages are looking for maintainers and other assistance. Please see http://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#unmaint if you'd like to help. The general page on how to help GNU is at http://www.gnu.org/help/help.html. To submit new packages to GNU, see http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.

As always, please feel free to write to me, karl@gnu.org, with any GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments.