What was New in 1997 on the GNU Web Site

December 1997

24 Dec 97: In honor of the holidays, we now have information about Saint IGNUcius of the Church of Emacs.
23 Dec 97: We have posted an article by Michael Stutz on Applying Copyleft To Non-Software Information.
23 Dec 97: We have posted an article on how the GNU project sees Microsoft.
1 Dec 97: Noted on our Java page, is version 0.6 of GNU Muffin.

November 1997

24 Nov 97

Added a new page about GNU Nana, a new utility for programming debugging assertions.

23 Nov 97

Added a new page about GNU Make.

22 Nov 97

Added a new page about GNU software and the year 2000.

22 Nov 97

Added a new mirror site of this web site http://www.gnu.org:

in Greece, http://www.auth.gr/gnu - mirrored daily - questions to Thalis Kalfigopoulos, <[email protected]>.

October 1997

3 Oct 97: We now have information about GNU Ghostscript.

August 1997

28 Aug 97: If you are in Europe, you can order FSF books, manuals and t-shirts through our new European distributor, GNU Distribution Europe, Belgium. This facilitates payment, avoids most of the extra shipping costs, and provides more rapid delivery.
21 Aug 97: GCC, the GNU C Compiler (which also supports C++, Objective C, Pascal, Fortran 77, and Ada 9X) now has a web page.
21 Aug 97: Fiasco is being developed as a replacement for SPSS.
19 Aug 97: Hurd pages updated to contain new information pertaining to the 0.2 Hurd release and the FSF's new GNUmach distribution, as well as a pointer to the web pages (not maintained by us) for the GRUB boot loader.
NEWS files for the Hurd and GNU Mach have been added.

July 1997

25 July 97

Added an article, The Right Way to Tax DAT (22k characters), previously published in Wired magazine about the tax on DAT machines and tapes: what's wrong with it and how it ought to be different.

20 July 97

Added a new graphic of a Philosophical Gnu to help identify the pages on this server that deal with the philosophy of the GNU Project.

This Philosophical Gnu was drawn by Markus Gerwinski <[email protected]>, and is similar to the GNU in the GNU Pascal Art.

See The GNU Art Gallery(500k) for details.

20 July 97

Installed in The GNU Art Gallery(500k) some web page backgrounds created by Markus Gerwinski <[email protected]>.

For the reason why we do not use page backgrounds, see Use of Graphics in the Web Site Style Guidelines (22k characters) used in designing and authoring this site.

4 July 97

Arranged for the GNU Hurd Task List to be automatically updated from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tasks/tasks.hurd, if this file on prep has changed.

2 July 97

Noted on our Java page, is the release of version 2.0 of GNU GraphPanel.

June 1997

23 June 97

Revamped the Guile pages.

6 June 97

Added new contributions to the master list of Java programs.

5 June 97

Added a link to an unofficial Czech GNU page.

1 June 97

Added a new mirror site of this web site http://www.gnu.org:

in Colombia, http://www.cetcol.net.co - mirrored daily - questions to Rafael Hernandez Rios, <[email protected]>

It's our first mirror in South America.

May 1997

29 May 97: Added a list of functions that are not yet documented in the GNU C library manual. It would be very helpful if you could spend a bit of your time on writing the missing parts. Please coordinate your work with the maintainers <[email protected]>.
12 May 97: Added the word ``theft'' to Some Confusing Words and Phrases that are Worth Avoiding.
7 May 97: Added a definition of commercial software (18k characters).
6 May 97: Added a master list of Java programs that have been contributed to the GNU Project.
6 May 97: Added an explanation of the relationship between Linux and the GNU system.
3 May 97: Added information about gzip.
2 May 97: Free software is more reliable!

April 1997

14 Apr 97: Added a set of pages describing the GNU C Library's compliance with various standards. This list also shows where the C Library needs to be improved.
13 Apr 97: Added a detailed explanation of the patent problems with GIF format and why we don't use GIF images in the GNU web server.
12 Apr 97: Added an explanation of how both individuals and companies can donate to the FSF.
It also explains how you can become a Patron of the FSF.
12 Apr 97: The FSF has a new GNU T-shirt for 1997.
12 Apr 97: Added the January 1997 GNU's Bulletin.
4 Apr 97: We thank Stephen McCamant <[email protected]> for designing this logo for the GNU Hurd using Metafont. Here is the source code for this Hurd logo.

March 1997

29 Mar 97: Added a link on the GNU Software page to GNU Enscript which converts ASCII files to Postscript for printing.
20 Mar 97: Added Selling Free Software, which explains why selling free software is not a contradiction, but an important and useful practice.
19 Mar 97: Added a science fiction story, The Right to Read, which shows the kind of world that the Clinton administration copyright plans lead to.

February 1997

15 Feb 97

Added a link to Octave, a high-level interactive language primarily intended for numerical computations, on the GNU Software page.

9 Feb 97

Add Studies Find Reward Often No Motivator, an article by Alfie Kohn about psychological research that casts doubt on widespread assumptions about how artificial rewards affect creative work.

5 Feb 97

Report the cancellation of the Second Conference on Freely Redistributable Software (February 20-21, 1997).

If you had planned to come to the Conference, but hadn't registered, please send email to <[email protected]> and tell us what parts of the Conference you had planned to attend. (This will help us in planning for future conferences.)

For more information, see the updated description.

3 Feb 97

Updated the FSF order form.

3 Feb 97

Added a new mirror site of this web site http://www.gnu.org:

in California, US, http://gnu.linux.ucla.edu - mirrored daily - questions to <[email protected]>.

It's our first mirror in North America.

January 1997

25 Jan 97

Version 2.0 of the GNU C Library has been announced. Also see the extended announcement.

25 Jan 97

We have renegotiated with the hotel, and have been able to lower the registration fees and hotel room rates for the Second Conference on Freely Redistributable Software to be held on 20-21 February 1997 at the San Francisco Hilton in San Francisco, CA, USA.

25 Jan 97

We have added:

Descriptions of the Tutorials on Thursday and Friday mornings
The talks and authors on Thursday and Friday afternoons
The members and further information on the Special Panel on the Commercial Aspects of Free Software

for the Second Conference on Freely Redistributable Software:

21 Jan 97

Added a page discussing Porting the GNU C Library.

18 Jan 97

Added a link to F.A.C.T.Net Inc., a non-profit Internet digest, news service, library, dialogue center, and archive dedicated to the promotion and defense of international free thought, free speech, and privacy rights, to our page supporting the Freedoms of Speech, Press, and Associationon the Internet.

16 Jan 97

Added a link to the 4th Tokyo GNU Seminar, on March 11th, 1997.

16 Jan 97

Added a link to GNU Midnight Commander, a visual file manager and shell, on the Software page.

14 Jan 97

Added a link to gpc, GNU Pascal, on the Software page.

12 Jan 97

Added a new mirror site of this web site http://www.gnu.org:

in Scotland, http://gnu.cybersurf.co.uk - mirrored daily - questions to John M Dow <[email protected]>.

12 Jan 97

Added a section listing GNU FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) to the GNU Documentation page.

12 Jan 97

Added a link to the GNU Chess FAQ on the GNU Documentation and Software page.

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