- GNU/Linux
(gnu linux unix fsf programming free-software) Mar 09 07
GNU/Linux is the more accurate name for an operating system based on the combination of GNU tools and the Linux kernel emphasizing this dependence.
- LinuxBIOS
(linux BIOS firmware FSF GNU booting fsf-priority) Mar 01 07
LinuxBIOS is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) you can find in most of today’s computers.
- FSF » Blogs » YouTube by April? Developer help needed for Gnash
(FSF Gnash youtube Flash fsf-priority) Mar 01 07
Progress in developing Gnash, the free software Flash movie player, is happening fast, with the next release planned for April 2007 sometime.
- fsf-priority
(fsf free-software priority campaign) Mar 01 07
High Priority Free Software Projects
These are projects the FSF draws attention to because they do not have an adequate free software replacement yet:
free 3D video drivers such as the nouveau project
create a free BIOS – see LinuxBIOS
Gnash – open Adobe Flash replacement
Xiph.org internet protocolls such as OGG Theora
reversible debugging to GDB.
Weblinks
FSF Campaigns: Priority Projects
- GNU
(free-software fsf richard-stallman) Mar 01 07
The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete UNIX operating system which is free software: the GNU system. (GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU’s Not UNIX”; it is pronounced “guh-noo.”)
Variants of the GNU operating system, which use the kernel Linux, are now widely used; though these systems are often referred to as “Linux”, some say they are more accurately called GNU/Linux systems because of the suite of GNU tools they use.
- gNewSense
(linux distribution gnu ubuntu debian fsf) Feb 03 07
A GNU/Linux distribution, that takes all the non-free blobs out of the popular Ubuntu distribution and makes it free.
- FSF » Blogs
(fsf blogs) Feb 01 07
- License:GFDL
(license fsf gnu) Feb 01 07
The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) is a license by the Free Software Foundation desigend for documentation and text.
It is a copyleft license, derivations to text licensed under the GFDL must be likewise licensed under the GFDL.
Like the GPL, the GFDL is incompatible with many other copyleft licenses, include the creative commons share-alike license.
Weblinks
GNU FDL license text
- free-software
(fsf definition FOSS FLOSS) Feb 01 07
“Free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech”, not as in “free beer”.
Free software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation, is software which can be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed with little or no restriction beyond the requirement that source code must be made available.
Freedoms
The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freed