GNU Spotlight September 2011

Originally published in the Free Software Foundation's Free Software Supporter - Issue 42, September 2011:
GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry

  • archimedes-1.5.0
  • autoconf-archive-2011.09.17
  • bzr-2.4.1 gnuchess-6.0.1
  • coreutils-8.13
  • diffutils-3.2
  • fdisk-1.3.0a
  • freeipmi-1.0.6
  • gdb-7.3.1
  • gengetopt-2.22.5
  • global-6.0
  • glpk-4.47
  • gnubatch-1.4
  • gnuhealth.1.3.3
  • gnunet-0.9.0pre3
  • gnunet-gtk-0.9.0pre3
  • gnutls-2.12.11
  • gnutls-3.0.3
  • gsegrafix-1.0.6
  • icecat-6.0.2
  • libextractor-python-0.6
  • libmicrohttpd-0.9.14
  • mediagoblin-0.0.5
  • nettle-2.4
  • solfege-3.20.3
  • source-highlight-3.1.5
  • wdiff-1.0.1
  • wget-1.13.4
  • zile-2.4.1

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This month I'd like to specially mention the first release of MediaGoblin as a GNU package, http://www.gnu.org/software/mediagoblin/, aiming to support decentralized services for media hosting.

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.

Finally, I regret to report that Brendan Kehoe, a long-time GNU contributor and supporter, passed away earlier this year http://www.zen.org. He will be greatly missed.

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