(GNU's Not Unix) A Unix-like operating system developed by the free software movement starting in 1984. In 1992, the almost-complete GNU system was combined with the Linux kernel, producing the GNU/Linux system. The GNU Project developed many of the core programs in GNU, but also included available free software such as the X Window System and TeX. See GNU Project, GNU/Linux, Free Software Foundation, free software and Linux.
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- Jack OS X 0.84 (Mac)
- Jack Tools is a Mac OS X implementation of the Jack Audio Connection Kit Jack. Jack is a low-latency audio server, written originally for the GNU/Linux operating system. It connects any number of different applications to a single hardware audio device; it also allows applications to send and receive audio...
- Software downloads 2009-11-25
- Komodo Edit (Windows) 5.2.2 (Windows)
- Komodo Edit, based on the award-winning Komodo IDE, offers sophisticated support for all major scripting languages, including in-depth autocomplete and calltips, multi-language file support, syntax coloring and syntax checking, Vi emulation, Emacs key bindings. Komodo Edit is built on the Mozilla code base and is now licensed under the same...
- Software downloads 2009-11-24
- HandBrake 0.9.4 (Windows)
- HandBrake is a GPL'd multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. HandBrake was originally available on the BeOS, but now has been ported over to MacOS X and to GNU/Linux.
- Software downloads 2009-11-23
- Web Controller 2003 (Windows)
- Australian Web Hosting controller for the windows hosting account. With the Windows hosting control panel you can control programs like iis6, ftp, dns, frontpage extension, asp.net an many other related services like email and other features like xmail server. The Windows hosting control panel works with all versions of windows...
- Software downloads 2009-11-20
- FAA hit with network glitch; Flight plans go manual
- Another glitch with a linux network? Its hard to believe people still use it for anything critical like the FAA and flight tracking. Its a toy OS and should not be used when the lives of people are dependent upon it.Cisco supplies the network backboneIt will be interesting to see...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- VirtualBox 3.0.12 (Mac)
- innotek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of...
- Software downloads 2009-11-17
- Cray XT5 Jaguar bests IBM Roadrunner as world's fastest supercomputer
- What operating systems are they running on?Just curious. :-)RE: Cray XT5 Jaguar bests IBM Roadrunner as world's fastest supercomputerFrom:http://www.nccs.gov/jaguar/#fragment-1Each node runs Cray's version of the SuSE Linux operating system. Cray has tuned the Linux kernel to remove unnecessary services from the compute nodes. The result is that the operating system...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- MenuMeters 1.4b4 (Mac)
- MenuMeters is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for MacOS X. Although there are numerous other programs which do the same thing, none had quite the feature set I was looking for. Most were windows that sat in a corner or on the desktop, which are...
- Software downloads 2009-11-16
- SimpleWget 0.9 (Mac)
- SimpleWget is a Cocoa front end for GNU Wget, a great UNIX download tool. You can do recursive downloading, specify file type to get(like .jpg only, .gif only...and so on), span hosts, read URLs from a text file. GNUWget-1.8.2 Installer Package for Mac OS X is also available at the...
- Software downloads 2009-11-16
- Microsoft admits its GPL violation; will reissue Windows 7 tool under open-source license
- Microsoft officials confirmed on November 13 -- a few days after pulling a Windows 7 download tool that allegedly contained improperly-licensed open-souce code -- that the company did, indeed violate the terms of the GNU General Public License GPL. It plans to reissue the source and binaries for the tool...
- Blog posts 2009-11-13
- Did Microsoft Windows 7 download tool violate the GPL?
- Microsoft has pulled an update tool for Windows 7 from the Microsoft Store site after a report indicating that the tool incorporated open-source code in a way that violated the GNU General Public License. by Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- FET - Free Timetabling Software 5.11 (Windows)
- FET is free, open source GNU/GPL software. Localized to English, Arabic, Catalan, German, Greek, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Dutch, Polish, Romanian and Turkish etc. Fully automatic generation algorithm, allowing also semi-automatic or manual allocation. Powerful flexible modular xml format for the input file, allowing editing with...
- Software downloads 2009-11-06
- Survey: IT workers eyeing security certifications
- No government healthcareIf the Gov goes with this socialist health_care scheme it will be the end of the free market.With Billions in waste from fraud in medicare/medicade and welfare running rampant with no checks in place.All we need is this community leader telling people we need to go TRILLIONS more...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- LBackup 0.9.8r2 (Mac)
- LBackup is a simple backup system aimed at systems administrators who require reliable backups with minimum fuss. LBackup is configured with configuration files and the backup is started from the command line. The core LBackup code has been tested for over 2 years. Features at a Glance: ...
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
- FinkCommander 0.5.5 (Mac)
- FinkCommander is a graphical user interface for the Fink software packaging system for Mac OS X. It provides an intuitive front-end to the Fink command-line tools for downloading and installing Unix software. FinkCommander is free software provided under the GNU General Public License in the hope that it will...
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
- Aquamacs Emacs 2.0preview3 (Mac)
- Aquamacs is a Mac-like distribution of the powerful Emacs text editor. It looks and behaves like a Mac program - even though it's still GNU Emacs with all the extensibility that millions have come to appreciate.Emacs is a text editor of legendary power and configurability, but it also has an...
- Software downloads 2009-10-28
- R for Mac OS X 2.10.0 (Mac)
- R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a different implementation of...
- Software downloads 2009-10-26
- Stallman admits GPL flawed, proprietary licensing needed to pay for MySQL development
- Richard Stallman and others are trying to block Oracle's acquisition of MySQL. Why? Because MySQL is covered by the GNU Public License GPL, and the purchase has exposed a flaw in the GPL that Stallman says will cause a "major setback" to the development of the free database if the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- MobaXterm 2.2 (Windows)
- MobaXterm formerly known as MobaXVT is an enhanced terminal with an X server and a set of Unix commands (GNU/Cygwin) packaged in a single portable exe file. Formerly known as MobaXVT, MobaXterm now includes a multitab native Windows terminal, a new X server based on X.Org for easily export your...
- Software downloads 2009-10-19
- VirtualDub 1.9.7 (Windows)
- VirtualDub is a video capture and processing utility licensed under the GNU General Public License GPL. It is designed to be a general utility that can trim and clean up video before exporting to tape or processing with another program. It does not possess the editing power of a general-purpose...
- Software downloads 2009-10-18
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