Aggregation of development blogs from the GNU Project
I have decided to start using sourcehut for a few of my projects. The first projects landing there are bugz-mode and a68-mode, two Emacs modes. The first implements a quite efficient and comfortable interface to bugzilla. The second is a programming mode for Algol 68.
Let's see how it goes!
This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.22.0. It addresses some issues in HELLO URI handling and formatting as well as regressions in the DHT subsystem along with other bug fixes.
The GPG key used to sign is: 3D11063C10F98D14BD24D1470B0998EF86F59B6A
Note that due to mirror synchronization, not all links may be functional early after the release. For direct access try https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnunet/
It’s no news. They’re stealing the Internet from us and we must do something about it. What it used to be a fun, collaborative hacking space is now ruled by corporations and narcissistic billionaires. Proprietary centralized social networks have become a space for hate, discrimination and propaganda. The messages that you see are those that they want you to see. Your data is no longer yours. They have become a massive thought control machine. You read what they want you to read and, in the end, you will end up writing and doing what they want you to write and to do. It’s a matter of time and money, and they have both.
These corporate-driven social networks are deceiving. They make us fall into false assumptions in a distorted reality. This delusion hits both individuals and organizations. For instance, in GNU Solidario and GNU Health, we fight for Social Medicine and for the rights of human and non-human animals. When we want to share an event, to make a fundraising campaign or to denounce human or animal rights violations we want the message to reach out as many people as possible. We could think, why not share it with our followers on Twitter / X? Experience has it, corporate social networks have not really made a difference in the outcomes. They will promote or “shadow ban” the message depending on who wrote it. You can guess the results for those who fight against neoliberal capitalism.
Social pressure exists, and is not trivial to overcome. Many fear that leaving proprietary centralized social networks that have been using for years will result in losing the status and contacts they’ve built throughout the years. Again, it’s not really a big deal. And we have great news, there are decentralized, community-driven alternatives! Some of those alternatives are Mastodon, Friendica or Diaspora. Not only social networks, today there is an free software alternative to pretty much any proprietary solution (search engines, scientific programs, multimedia, office suites, databases, games…)
There is a correlation between Free Software, freedom and privacy. The more Free Software, the more freedom and privacy you enjoy. The contrary also applies: Proprietary software is inversely proportional to our freedom, both at individual and collective level. There is no transparency, no privacy, no control, no rights in proprietary applications, networks or clouds.
In the last decades, the tech giants have been busy in a campaign to dismantle the Free Software philosophy and community. The “open source” euphemism is one of them. Richard Stallman (creator of the GNU project and the Free Software Foundation) has been warning us about the dangers of “Open Source”. Free societies are built with free software, not with open source. I know some members in the free software community use both terms interchangeably, but I am convinced using the “Free Software” terms not only delivers software, but also freedom to our society.
Internet is no longer fun or empathetic. It has become a hostile and toxic environment, the medium for corporations and elites that increase concentration of power, social gradient and create very unjust societies. They use our data to control individuals and governments. We certainly don’t want to be part of that.
It is our moral duty to bring back spirit of solidarity that RMS delivered in the late 80’s, and that made possible the GNU movement, the best operating systems, programming languages, web servers and database engines for everyone. The GNU project was the inspiration for projects like GNU Health, helping millions around the globe, delivering freedom and equity in healthcare.
In the end, it is up to us to embrace federated, community driven social networks and free software applications. Millions of individuals, activists, free software projects, NGOs and even the European Union have already joined the Fediverse and Mastodon. It only takes an initial push to break the social pressure to set ourselves and our societies free.
Citing our friends from GNUnet: “You broke the Internet… we’ll build a GNU one”.
Happy hacking!
Follow us in Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@gnuhealth
Original post: https://my.gnusolidario.org/2024/09/26/time-to-take-back-the-internet/
26 September, 2024 06:08PM by Luis Falcon
It’s no news. They’re stealing the Internet from us and we must do something about it. What it used to be a fun, collaborative hacking space is now ruled by corporations and narcissistic billionaires. Proprietary centralized social networks have become a space for hate, discrimination and propaganda. The messages that you see are those that they want you to see. Your data is no longer yours. They have become a massive thought control machine. You read what they want you to read and, in the end, you will end up writing and doing what they want you to write and to do. It’s a matter of time and money, and they have both.
These corporate-driven social networks are deceiving. They make us fall into false assumptions in a distorted reality. This delusion hits both individuals and organizations. For instance, in GNU Solidario and GNU Health, we fight for Social Medicine and for the rights of human and non-human animals. When we want to share an event, to make a fundraising campaign or to denounce human or animal rights violations we want the message to reach out as many people as possible. We could think, why not share it with our followers on Twitter / X? Experience has it, corporate social networks have not really made a difference in the outcomes. They will promote or “shadow ban” the message depending on who wrote it. You can guess the results for those who fight against neoliberal capitalism.
“The many branches of the Fediverse” (credits: Axbom)
Social pressure exists, and is not trivial to overcome. Many fear that leaving proprietary centralized social networks that have been using for years will result in losing the status and contacts they’ve built throughout the years. Again, it’s not really a big deal. And we have great news, there are decentralized, community-driven alternatives! Some of those alternatives are Mastodon, Friendica or Diaspora. Not only social networks, today there is an free software alternative to pretty much any proprietary solution (search engines, scientific programs, multimedia, office suites, databases, games…)
The GNU head, symbol of the GNU project
There is a correlation between Free Software, freedom and privacy. The more Free Software, the more freedom and privacy you enjoy. The contrary also applies: Proprietary software is inversely proportional to our freedom, both at individual and collective level. There is no transparency, no privacy, no control, no rights in proprietary applications, networks or clouds.
In the last decades, the tech giants have been busy in a campaign to dismantle the Free Software philosophy and community. The “open source” euphemism is one of them. Richard Stallman (creator of the GNU project and the Free Software Foundation) has been warning us about the dangers of “Open Source”. Free societies are built with free software, not with open source. I know some members in the free software community use both terms interchangeably, but I am convinced using the “Free Software” terms not only delivers software, but also freedom to our society.
Internet is no longer fun or empathetic. It has become a hostile and toxic environment, the medium for corporations and elites that increase concentration of power, social gradient and create very unjust societies. They use our data to control individuals and governments. We certainly don’t want to be part of that.
It is our moral duty to bring back spirit of solidarity that RMS delivered in the late 80’s, and that made possible the GNU movement, the best operating systems, programming languages, web servers and database engines for everyone. The GNU project was the inspiration for projects like GNU Health, helping millions around the globe, delivering freedom and equity in healthcare.
In the end, it is up to us to embrace federated, community driven social networks and free software applications. Millions of individuals, activists, free software projects, NGOs and even the European Union have already joined the Fediverse and Mastodon. It only takes an initial push to break the social pressure to set ourselves and our societies free.
Collage with some members of the GNU Health community around the world
Citing our friends from GNUnet: “You broke the Internet… we’ll build a GNU one”.
Happy hacking!
Follow us in Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@gnuhealth
26 September, 2024 04:16PM by Luis Falcon
Libtoolers!
The Libtool Team is pleased to announce the release of libtool 2.5.3.
GNU Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a
consistent, portable interface. GNU Libtool ships with GNU libltdl, which
hides the complexity of loading dynamic runtime libraries (modules)
behind a consistent, portable interface.
There have been 14 commits by 2 people in the 27 days since 2.5.2.
See the NEWS below for a brief summary. An alpha and two beta releases
of GNU Libtool have been released prior to this stable release. Please
view the NEWS entries for those releases for a more complete summary of
the updates between stable releases 2.4.7 and 2.5.3.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
Bruno Haible (3)
Ileana Dumitrescu (11)
Ileana
[on behalf of the libtool maintainers]
==================================================================
Here is the GNU libtool home page:
https://gnu.org/s/libtool/
For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libtool.git;a=shortlog;h=v2.5.3
or run this command from a git-cloned libtool directory:
git shortlog v2.5.2..v2.5.3
Here are the compressed sources:
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/libtool/libtool-2.5.3.tar.gz (2.0MB)
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/libtool/libtool-2.5.3.tar.xz (1.1MB)
Here are the GPG detached signatures:
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/libtool/libtool-2.5.3.tar.gz.sig
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/libtool/libtool-2.5.3.tar.xz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums:
f48e2fcdb0b80f97e93366c41fdcd1ea90f2f253 libtool-2.5.3.tar.gz
kyK9j2vISP2j44WJndGTSVcWllKs73FtGdGdJAU6u5U= libtool-2.5.3.tar.gz
f1450b2f652d9acf3b83eee823cad966a149cca4 libtool-2.5.3.tar.xz
iYARIyzFm2s7u+Mhtgq6nbGsEVeKth7Q3wKZRYFGri4= libtool-2.5.3.tar.xz
Verify the base64 SHA256 checksum with cksum -a sha256 --check
from coreutils-9.2 or OpenBSD's cksum since 2007.
Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
.sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file
and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this:
gpg --verify libtool-2.5.3.tar.gz.sig
The signature should match the fingerprint of the following key:
pub rsa4096 2021-09-23 [SC]
FA26 CA78 4BE1 8892 7F22 B99F 6570 EA01 146F 7354
uid Ileana Dumitrescu <ileanadumi95@protonmail.com>
uid Ileana Dumitrescu <ileanadumitrescu95@gmail.com>
If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
or that public key has expired, try the following commands to retrieve
or refresh it, and then rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
gpg --locate-external-key ileanadumi95@protonmail.com
gpg --recv-keys 6570EA01146F7354
wget -q -O- 'https://savannah.gnu.org/project/release-gpgkeys.php?group=libtool&download=1' | gpg --import -
As a last resort to find the key, you can try the official GNU
keyring:
wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg
gpg --keyring gnu-keyring.gpg --verify libtool-2.5.3.tar.gz.sig
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.72e
Automake 1.17
Gnulib v1.0-803-g30417e7f91
NEWS
** New features:
- Add 'aarch64' support to the file magic test, which allows for
shared libraries to be built with Mingw for aarch64.
** Bug fixes:
- The configure options --with-pic and --without-pic have been renamed
to --enable-pic and --disable-pic, respectively. The old names
--with-pic and --without-pic are still supported, though, for
backward compatibility.
- The configure option --with-aix-soname has been renamed to
--enable-aix-soname. The old name --with-aix-soname is still
supported, though, for backward compatibility.
- Fix conflicting warnings about AC_PROG_RANLIB.
- Document situations where -export-symbols does not work.
- Update FSF office address with URL in each file's license block.
- Add checks for aclocal in standalone.at and subproject.at test files
that report failures in Linux From Scratch and Darwin builds.
Enjoy!
25 September, 2024 03:57PM by Ileana Dumitrescu
GNU Parallel 20240922 ('Gold Apollo AR924') has been released. It is available for download at: lbry://@GnuParallel:4
Quote of the month:
Recently executed a flawless live data migration of ~2.4pb using GNU parallel for scale and bash scripts.
-- @mechanicker@twitter Dhruva
New in this release:
News about GNU Parallel:
GNU Parallel - For people who live life in the parallel lane.
If you like GNU Parallel record a video testimonial: Say who you are, what you use GNU Parallel for, how it helps you, and what you like most about it. Include a command that uses GNU Parallel if you feel like it.
GNU Parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers. A job can be a single command or a small script that has to be run for each of the lines in the input. The typical input is a list of files, a list of hosts, a list of users, a list of URLs, or a list of tables. A job can also be a command that reads from a pipe. GNU Parallel can then split the input and pipe it into commands in parallel.
If you use xargs and tee today you will find GNU Parallel very easy to use as GNU Parallel is written to have the same options as xargs. If you write loops in shell, you will find GNU Parallel may be able to replace most of the loops and make them run faster by running several jobs in parallel. GNU Parallel can even replace nested loops.
GNU Parallel makes sure output from the commands is the same output as you would get had you run the commands sequentially. This makes it possible to use output from GNU Parallel as input for other programs.
For example you can run this to convert all jpeg files into png and gif files and have a progress bar:
parallel --bar convert {1} {1.}.{2} ::: *.jpg ::: png gif
Or you can generate big, medium, and small thumbnails of all jpeg files in sub dirs:
find . -name '*.jpg' |
parallel convert -geometry {2} {1} {1//}/thumb{2}_{1/} :::: - ::: 50 100 200
You can find more about GNU Parallel at: http://www.gnu.org/s/parallel/
You can install GNU Parallel in just 10 seconds with:
$ (wget -O - pi.dk/3 || lynx -source pi.dk/3 || curl pi.dk/3/ || \
fetch -o - http://pi.dk/3 ) > install.sh
$ sha1sum install.sh | grep 883c667e01eed62f975ad28b6d50e22a
12345678 883c667e 01eed62f 975ad28b 6d50e22a
$ md5sum install.sh | grep cc21b4c943fd03e93ae1ae49e28573c0
cc21b4c9 43fd03e9 3ae1ae49 e28573c0
$ sha512sum install.sh | grep ec113b49a54e705f86d51e784ebced224fdff3f52
79945d9d 250b42a4 2067bb00 99da012e c113b49a 54e705f8 6d51e784 ebced224
fdff3f52 ca588d64 e75f6033 61bd543f d631f592 2f87ceb2 ab034149 6df84a35
$ bash install.sh
Watch the intro video on http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL284C9FF2488BC6D1
Walk through the tutorial (man parallel_tutorial). Your command line will love you for it.
When using programs that use GNU Parallel to process data for publication please cite:
O. Tange (2018): GNU Parallel 2018, March 2018, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1146014.
If you like GNU Parallel:
Identi.ca/Google+/Twitter/Facebook/Linkedin/mailing lists
not already there)
If you use programs that use GNU Parallel for research:
If GNU Parallel saves you money:
GNU sql aims to give a simple, unified interface for accessing databases through all the different databases' command line clients. So far the focus has been on giving a common way to specify login information (protocol, username, password, hostname, and port number), size (database and table size), and running queries.
The database is addressed using a DBURL. If commands are left out you will get that database's interactive shell.
When using GNU SQL for a publication please cite:
O. Tange (2011): GNU SQL - A Command Line Tool for Accessing Different Databases Using DBURLs, ;login: The USENIX Magazine, April 2011:29-32.
GNU niceload slows down a program when the computer load average (or other system activity) is above a certain limit. When the limit is reached the program will be suspended for some time. If the limit is a soft limit the program will be allowed to run for short amounts of time before being suspended again. If the limit is a hard limit the program will only be allowed to run when the system is below the
limit.
23 September, 2024 08:49PM by Ole Tange
Do you have too many git branches on the go at once? Here is the command to list them in order of last modification:
git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate refs/heads
20 September, 2024 02:43PM by gbenson
10 September 2024
Unifont 16.0.01 is now available. This is a major release.
From the NEWS file:
* Updates to synchronize Unifont with Unicode 16.0.0 release.
* Many new upper-plane Chinese ideographs added.
* New "make" build dependency on ImageMagick's "convert" program
to build thumbnail images of the Unicode plane bitmaps.
* unifont-combining-$(VERSION).txt is now included in the
distribution set to provide spacing information on all
combining characters.
* Many other minor updates; see ChangeLog for details.
Download this release from GNU server mirrors at:
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/unifont/unifont-16.0.01/
or if that fails,
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/unifont/unifont-16.0.01/
or, as a last resort,
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/unifont/unifont-16.0.01/
These files are also available on the unifoundry.com website:
https://unifoundry.com/pub/unifont/unifont-16.0.01/
Font files are in the subdirectory
https://unifoundry.com/pub/unifont/unifont-16.0.01/font-builds/
A more detailed description of font changes is available at
https://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html
and of utility program changes at
https://unifoundry.com/unifont/unifont-utilities.html
Enjoy!
Paul Hardy
10 September, 2024 04:49PM by Paul Hardy
Stow 2.4.1 has been released. This release contains some minor bug-fixes -- specifically, fixing the --dotfiles option to work correctly with ignore lists, allowing options in .stowrc with spaces, and avoiding a spurious warning on Perl >= 5.40. There were also some clean-ups and improvements, mostly internal and not visible to users. Read details of what's new: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/stow.git/tree/NEWS
08 September, 2024 10:26PM by Adam Spiers
We have released version 7.1.1 of Texinfo, the GNU documentation format. This is a minor bug-fix release.
It's available via a mirror (xz is much smaller than gz, but gz is available too just in case):
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo-7.1.1.tar.xz
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo-7.1.1.tar.gz
Please send any comments to bug-texinfo@gnu.org.
Full announcement:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2024-09/msg00041.html
07 September, 2024 07:05PM by Gavin D. Smith
libffcall version 2.5 is released.
New in this release:
02 September, 2024 01:35PM by Bruno Haible
Libtoolers!
The Libtool Team is pleased to announce the release of libtool 2.5.2, a beta release.
This beta release was not planned, but additional testing of a recent bugfix
was requested for distros to have the chance to test it with mass-rebuilds.
The details of this bugfix can be found here:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=71489
The commit for this bugfix can be found here:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtool.git/commit/?id=0e1b33332429cd578367bd0ad420c065d5caf0ac
I hope to release the stable in a couple of weeks if testing goes well!
GNU Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a
consistent, portable interface. GNU Libtool ships with GNU libltdl, which
hides the complexity of loading dynamic runtime libraries (modules)
behind a consistent, portable interface.
There have been 9 commits by 4 people in the 35 days since 2.5.1.
See the NEWS below for a brief summary.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
Bruno Haible (1)
Ileana Dumitrescu (6)
Sergey Poznyakoff (1)
Tobias Stoeckmann (1)
Ileana
[on behalf of the libtool maintainers]
==================================================================
Here is the GNU libtool home page:
https://gnu.org/s/libtool/
For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libtool.git;a=shortlog;h=v2.5.2
or run this command from a git-cloned libtool directory:
git shortlog v2.5.1..v2.5.2
Here are the compressed sources:
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.5.2.tar.gz (1.9MB)
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.5.2.tar.xz (1.0MB)
Here are the GPG detached signatures:
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.5.2.tar.gz.sig
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.5.2.tar.xz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums:
e3384dc0099855942f76ef8a97be94edab6f56de libtool-2.5.2.tar.gz
KSdftFsjbW/3IKQz+c1fYeovUsw6ouX4m6V3Jr2lR5M= libtool-2.5.2.tar.gz
71b7333e80b76510f5dbd14db54d311d577bb716 libtool-2.5.2.tar.xz
e2C09MNk6HhRMNNKmP8Hv6mmFywgxdtwirScaRPkgmM= libtool-2.5.2.tar.xz
Verify the base64 SHA256 checksum with cksum -a sha256 --check
from coreutils-9.2 or OpenBSD's cksum since 2007.
Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
.sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file
and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this:
gpg --verify libtool-2.5.2.tar.gz.sig
The signature should match the fingerprint of the following key:
pub rsa4096 2021-09-23 [SC]
FA26 CA78 4BE1 8892 7F22 B99F 6570 EA01 146F 7354
uid Ileana Dumitrescu <ileanadumi95@protonmail.com>
uid Ileana Dumitrescu <ileanadumitrescu95@gmail.com>
If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
or that public key has expired, try the following commands to retrieve
or refresh it, and then rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
gpg --locate-external-key ileanadumi95@protonmail.com
gpg --recv-keys 6570EA01146F7354
wget -q -O- 'https://savannah.gnu.org/project/release-gpgkeys.php?group=libtool&download=1' | gpg --import -
As a last resort to find the key, you can try the official GNU
keyring:
wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg
gpg --keyring gnu-keyring.gpg --verify libtool-2.5.2.tar.gz.sig
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.72e
Automake 1.17
Gnulib v1.0-563-gd3efdd55f3
NEWS
** Bug fixes:
- Use shared objects built in source tree instead of the installed
versions for more reliable testing.
- Fix test in bug_62343.at for confirmed Cygwin/Mingw32 where the
incorrect architecture version of a compiler was generating
object files that could not be linked with a library file.
- Fix typos found with codespell.
** Changes in supported systems or compilers:
- Add support for 32-bit mode on FreeBSD/powerpc64.
Enjoy!
29 August, 2024 03:11PM by Ileana Dumitrescu
We're pleased to announce the release of GNU MediaGoblin 0.14.0. See the release notes for full details and upgrading instructions.
Highlights of this release are:
This version has been tested on Debian Bookworm (12), Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 39.
Thanks go to co-maintainer Olivier Mehani for his major contributions in this release!
To join us and help improve MediaGoblin, please visit our getting involved page.
29 August, 2024 05:00AM by Ben Sturmfels
We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.22.0.
GNUnet is an alternative network stack for building secure, decentralized and
privacy-preserving distributed applications.
Our goal is to replace the old insecure Internet protocol stack.
Starting from an application for secure publication of files, it has grown to
include all kinds of basic protocol components and applications towards the
creation of a GNU internet.
This is a new major release. It breaks protocol compatibility with the 0.21.x versions. Please be aware that Git master is thus henceforth (and has been for a while) INCOMPATIBLE with the 0.21.x GNUnet network, and interactions between old and new peers will result in issues. In terms of usability, users should be aware that there are still a number of known open issues in particular with respect to ease of use, but also some critical privacy issues especially for mobile users. Also, the nascent network is tiny and thus unlikely to provide good anonymity or extensive amounts of interesting information. As a result, the 0.22.0 release is still only suitable for early adopters with some reasonable pain tolerance .
The GPG key used to sign is: 3D11063C10F98D14BD24D1470B0998EF86F59B6A
Note that due to mirror synchronization, not all links might be functional early after the release. For direct access try http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnunet/
A detailed list of changes can be found in the git log , the NEWS and the bug tracker . Noteworthy highlights are
In addition to this list, you may also want to consult our bug tracker at bugs.gnunet.org which lists about 190 more specific issues.
This release was the work of many people. The following people contributed code and were thus easily identified: Christian Grothoff, t3sserakt, TheJackiMonster, Pedram Fardzadeh, Shichao, fence, dvn, nullptrderef and Martin Schanzenbach.
Additionally there's a minor release of libgnunetchat 0.5.1 which fixes multiple issues to improve overall reliability.
A detailed list of changes can be found in the ChangeLog .
Utilizing latest changes in GNUnet and libgnunetchat, there's a new release of the messenger application bringing live chats which allow streaming your own voice or video with other contacts. This release requires libgnunetchat 0.5.1.
Keep in mind the application is still in development. So there may still be major bugs keeping you from getting a reliable connection. But if you encounter such issue, feel free to consult our bug tracker at bugs.gnunet.org .
Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical
terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.
The 5.0.0 release includes the following changes to the previous
release 4.9.1:
- auth [on|off]
Provides password protection
- status [top|up|down|bottom] [left|right]
The status window by default is in bottom-left corner.
This command can move status messages to any corner of the screen.
- truecolor [on|off]
- multiinput
Input to multiple windows at the same time
- time
- debug
- password
- maxwin
- nethack
- Screen buffers ESC keypresses indefinitely
- Crashes after passing through a zmodem transfer
- Fix double -U issue
Release is available for download:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/screen/
Please report any bugs or regressions.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release.
Cheers,
Alex
28 August, 2024 09:41PM by Alexander Naumov
This project aimed to implement a new communicator for GNUnet's Transport Next Generation (TNG) using the HTTP/3 protocol.
We chose ngtcp2 and nghttp3 for their stability and adherence to RFC standards. I began by studying communicator fundamentals and analyzing relevant code examples. I then created a QUIC communicator using libngtcp2, implementing essential communication features. Building on this, I integrated libnghttp3 to support HTTP/3 layer communication. After establishing basic uni-directional communication, I proceeded to implement bi-directional capabilities. With the help and guidance of my mentors, I completed the above work, including the selection and design of message transmission methods and the implementation of code.
We have two branches, dev/shichao/http3 for basic communication and dev/shichao/http3bidirect for bi-directional communication. They can pass the basic tests. However, we found that there were occasional failures during the test. We currently assume that this is caused by the test harness not being able to process the received data packets in time.
There are still many areas that can be improved in the HTTP/3 communicator, such as using CID map instead of IP address map. In addition, in bi-directional communication, the server's sending rate is slightly lower than the client's transmission rate, and this will be optimized in the future. Finally, integrating the Peer Identity into the TLS handshake in order to authenticate the peers is a natural feature to implement.
All the code is available upstream in the master branch and will be available with the next release.
Initially, I was unfamiliar with the ngtcp2 and nghttp3 libraries. While there were some examples available, I found limited guidance for more advanced usage. Through careful study and experimentation, I gradually gained a deeper understanding of these libraries. But in this process, I have a deeper understanding of QUIC and HTTP/3 protocols, and also improved my coding skills.
GNU Parallel 20240822 ('Southport') has been released. It is available for download at: lbry://@GnuParallel:4
Quote of the month:
honestly the coolest software i've ever seen gotta be gnu parallel or
ffmpeg, nothing like them
-- @scootykins scoot
New in this release:
News about GNU Parallel:
GNU Parallel - For people who live life in the parallel lane.
If you like GNU Parallel record a video testimonial: Say who you are, what you use GNU Parallel for, how it helps you, and what you like most about it. Include a command that uses GNU Parallel if you feel like it.
GNU Parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers. A job can be a single command or a small script that has to be run for each of the lines in the input. The typical input is a list of files, a list of hosts, a list of users, a list of URLs, or a list of tables. A job can also be a command that reads from a pipe. GNU Parallel can then split the input and pipe it into commands in parallel.
If you use xargs and tee today you will find GNU Parallel very easy to use as GNU Parallel is written to have the same options as xargs. If you write loops in shell, you will find GNU Parallel may be able to replace most of the loops and make them run faster by running several jobs in parallel. GNU Parallel can even replace nested loops.
GNU Parallel makes sure output from the commands is the same output as you would get had you run the commands sequentially. This makes it possible to use output from GNU Parallel as input for other programs.
For example you can run this to convert all jpeg files into png and gif files and have a progress bar:
parallel --bar convert {1} {1.}.{2} ::: *.jpg ::: png gif
Or you can generate big, medium, and small thumbnails of all jpeg files in sub dirs:
find . -name '*.jpg' |
parallel convert -geometry {2} {1} {1//}/thumb{2}_{1/} :::: - ::: 50 100 200
You can find more about GNU Parallel at: http://www.gnu.org/s/parallel/
You can install GNU Parallel in just 10 seconds with:
$ (wget -O - pi.dk/3 || lynx -source pi.dk/3 || curl pi.dk/3/ || \
fetch -o - http://pi.dk/3 ) > install.sh
$ sha1sum install.sh | grep 883c667e01eed62f975ad28b6d50e22a
12345678 883c667e 01eed62f 975ad28b 6d50e22a
$ md5sum install.sh | grep cc21b4c943fd03e93ae1ae49e28573c0
cc21b4c9 43fd03e9 3ae1ae49 e28573c0
$ sha512sum install.sh | grep ec113b49a54e705f86d51e784ebced224fdff3f52
79945d9d 250b42a4 2067bb00 99da012e c113b49a 54e705f8 6d51e784 ebced224
fdff3f52 ca588d64 e75f6033 61bd543f d631f592 2f87ceb2 ab034149 6df84a35
$ bash install.sh
Watch the intro video on http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL284C9FF2488BC6D1
Walk through the tutorial (man parallel_tutorial). Your command line will love you for it.
When using programs that use GNU Parallel to process data for publication please cite:
O. Tange (2018): GNU Parallel 2018, March 2018, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1146014.
If you like GNU Parallel:
If you use programs that use GNU Parallel for research:
If GNU Parallel saves you money:
GNU sql aims to give a simple, unified interface for accessing databases through all the different databases' command line clients. So far the focus has been on giving a common way to specify login information (protocol, username, password, hostname, and port number), size (database and table size), and running queries.
The database is addressed using a DBURL. If commands are left out you will get that database's interactive shell.
When using GNU SQL for a publication please cite:
O. Tange (2011): GNU SQL - A Command Line Tool for Accessing Different Databases Using DBURLs, ;login: The USENIX Magazine, April 2011:29-32.
GNU niceload slows down a program when the computer load average (or other system activity) is above a certain limit. When the limit is reached the program will be suspended for some time. If the limit is a soft limit the program will be allowed to run for short amounts of time before being suspended again. If the limit is a hard limit the program will only be allowed to run when the system is below the limit.
21 August, 2024 08:09PM by Ole Tange
Dear Translators:
The FSF is officially going remote, so come visit the FSF office one last time. After August 31st, FSF will no longer be residing at the office on 51 Franklin Street.
For the final time, FSF will open the office to everyone who would like to visit the office one last time on Friday, August 16th from 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. for the move-out party.
You can also leave your words at the member forum:
https://forum.members.fsf.org/t/we-are-closing-down-the-51-franklin-street-office-do-you-have-any-memories-to-share/5614
You can write your own blog as I have done:
https://liberal.codeberg.page/goodbye-51-franklin-street.html
May FSF long live in our mind.
16 August, 2024 08:15AM by Wensheng XIE
Version 2.4 of GNU Rush is available for download.
New in this release:
09 August, 2024 12:37PM by Sergey Poznyakoff
Dear community
GNU Health Hospital Management 4.4.1 has been released!
Priority: High
We provide "patchsets" to stable releases. Patchsets allow applying bug fixes and updates on production systems. Always try to keep your production system up-to-date with the latest patches.
Patches and Patchsets maximize uptime for production systems, and keep your system updated, without the need to do a whole installation.
NOTE: Patchsets are applied on previously installed systems only. For new, fresh installations, download and install the whole tarball (ie, gnuhealth-4.4.1.tar.gz)
You can do automatic updates on the GNU Health HMIS kernel and modules using the GNU Health control center program.
Please refer to the administration manual section ( https://docs.gnuhealth.org/his/techguide/administration/controlcenter.html )
The GNU Health control center works on standard installations (those done following the installation manual on wikibooks). Don't use it if you use an alternative method or if your distribution does not follow the GNU Health packaging guidelines.
You must apply previous patchsets before installing this patchset. If your patchset level is 4.4.0, then just follow the general instructions. You can find the patchsets at GNU Health main download site at GNU.org (https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/health/)
In most cases, GNU Health Control center (gnuhealth-control) takes care of applying the patches for you.
Pre-requisites for upgrade to 4.4.1: None
Now follow the general instructions at
https://docs.gnuhealth.org/his/techguide/administration/controlcenter.html
After applying the patches, make a full update of your GNU Health database as explained in the documentation.
When running "gnuhealth-control" for the first time, you will see the following message: "Please restart now the update with the new control center" Please do so. Restart the process and the update will continue.
For detailed information about each issue, you can visit :
https://codeberg.org/gnuhealth/his/issues
For detailed information you can read about Patches and Patchsets
Happy hacking!
01 August, 2024 08:15PM by Luis Falcon
Libtoolers!
The Libtool Team is pleased to announce the release of libtool 2.5.1, a beta release.
GNU Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a
consistent, portable interface. GNU Libtool ships with GNU libltdl, which
hides the complexity of loading dynamic runtime libraries (modules)
behind a consistent, portable interface.
There have been 33 commits by 8 people in the 10 weeks since 2.5.0.
See the NEWS below for a brief summary.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
Bruno Haible (3)
Ileana Dumitrescu (24)
Julien ÉLIE (1)
Khem Raj (1)
Peter Kokot (1)
Richard Purdie (1)
Vincent Lefevre (1)
trcrsired (1)
Ileana
[on behalf of the libtool maintainers]
==================================================================
Here is the GNU libtool home page:
https://gnu.org/s/libtool/
For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libtool.git;a=shortlog;h=v2.5.1
or run this command from a git-cloned libtool directory:
git shortlog v2.5.0..v2.5.1
Here are the compressed sources:
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.5.1.tar.gz (1.9MB)
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.5.1.tar.xz (1020KB)
Here are the GPG detached signatures:
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.5.1.tar.gz.sig
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.5.1.tar.xz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums:
5e2f00be5b616b0a6120b2947e562b8448e139b2 libtool-2.5.1.tar.gz
aoPtr9QtTi69wJV5+ZzoKNX5MvFzjeAklcyMKITkMM4= libtool-2.5.1.tar.gz
9f72b896f593c4f81cdd6c20c9d99463663e48a9 libtool-2.5.1.tar.xz
0oDmTIzb8UXXb7kbOyGe2rAb20PLmUAuSsuX0BAGNv0= libtool-2.5.1.tar.xz
Verify the base64 SHA256 checksum with cksum -a sha256 --check
from coreutils-9.2 or OpenBSD's cksum since 2007.
Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
.sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file
and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this:
gpg --verify libtool-2.5.1.tar.gz.sig
The signature should match the fingerprint of the following key:
pub rsa4096 2021-09-23 [SC]
FA26 CA78 4BE1 8892 7F22 B99F 6570 EA01 146F 7354
uid Ileana Dumitrescu <ileanadumi95@protonmail.com>
uid Ileana Dumitrescu <ileanadumitrescu95@gmail.com>
If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
or that public key has expired, try the following commands to retrieve
or refresh it, and then rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
gpg --locate-external-key ileanadumi95@protonmail.com
gpg --recv-keys 6570EA01146F7354
wget -q -O- 'https://savannah.gnu.org/project/release-gpgkeys.php?group=libtool&download=1' | gpg --import -
As a last resort to find the key, you can try the official GNU
keyring:
wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg
gpg --keyring gnu-keyring.gpg --verify libtool-2.5.1.tar.gz.sig
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.72e
Automake 1.17
Gnulib v1.0-563-gd3efdd55f3
NEWS
** New features:
- Support C++17 compilers in the C++ tests.
- Add sysroot to library path for cross builds.
** Important incompatible changes:
- Autoconf 2.64 is required for libtool.m4 to use AS_VAR_APPEND.
** Bug fixes:
- Fix for uninitialized variable in libtoolize.
- Skip Fortran/C demo tests when using Clang with fsanitize to
avoid an incompatible ASan runtime.
- Updated documentation for testing.
- Fix failing test to account for program-prefix usage.
- Replaced a deprecated macro to remove warning messages in the
testsuite logs.
- Fix number of arguments for AC_CHECK_PROG call.
- Fix test failures with no-canonical-prefixes flag by checking
if the flag is supported first.
- Fix test failures with no-undefined flag by checking host OS
before appending the flag.
- Skip test when passing CXX flags through libtool to avoid test
failure on NetBSD.
- Remove texinfo warning for period in node name of pxref.
- Alter syntax in sed command to fix numerous test failures
on 64-bit windows/cygwin/mingw.
- Fix 'Wstrict-prototypes' warnings.
- Correct DLL Installation Path for mingw multilib builds.
- Fix '--preserve-dup-deps' stripping duplicates.
- Disable chained fixups for macOS, since it is not compatible with
'-undefined dynamic_lookup'.
** Changes in supported systems or compilers:
- Support additional flang-based compilers, 'flang-new' and 'ftn'.
Enjoy!
25 July, 2024 03:18PM by Ileana Dumitrescu
Do you need a thread-safe atomic counter in Python? Use itertools.count():
>>> from itertools import count >>> counter = count() >>> next(counter) 0 >>> next(counter) 1 >>> next(counter) 2
I found this in the decorator package, labelled Atomic get-and-increment provided by the GIL
. So simple! So cool!
25 July, 2024 11:09AM by gbenson
Guix is the fruit of a combination of volunteer work by an amazing number of people, work paid for by employers, but also work sponsored by public institutions. The European Commission’s Next Generation Internet (NGI) calls have been instrumental in that regard. News that NGI funding could vanish came to us as a warning signal.
Since 2020, NGI has supported many free software projects, allowing for significant strides on important topics that would otherwise be hard to fund. As an example, here are some of the NGI grants that directly benefited Guix and related projects:
Over the years, NGI has more than demonstrated that public financial support for free software development makes a difference. We strongly believe that this support must continue, that it must strengthen the development of innovative software where user autonomy and freedom is a central aspect.
For these reasons, the Guix project joins a growing number of projects and organizations in signing the following open letter to the European Commission.
The open letter below was initially published by petites singularités. English translation provided by OW2.
Since 2020, Next Generation Internet (NGI) programmes, part of European Commission's Horizon programme, fund free software in Europe using a cascade funding mechanism (see for example NLnet's calls). This year, according to the Horizon Europe working draft detailing funding programmes for 2025, we notice that Next Generation Internet is not mentioned any more as part of Cluster 4.
NGI programmes have shown their strength and importance to supporting the European software infrastructure, as a generic funding instrument to fund digital commons and ensure their long-term sustainability. We find this transformation incomprehensible, moreover when NGI has proven efficient and economical to support free software as a whole, from the smallest to the most established initiatives. This ecosystem diversity backs the strength of European technological innovation, and maintaining the NGI initiative to provide structural support to software projects at the heart of worldwide innovation is key to enforce the sovereignty of a European infrastructure. Contrary to common perception, technical innovations often originate from European rather than North American programming communities, and are mostly initiated by small-scaled organisations.
Previous Cluster 4 allocated 27 million euros to:
In the name of these challenges, more than 500 projects received NGI funding in the first 5 years, backed by 18 organisations managing these European funding consortia.
NGI contributes to a vast ecosystem, as most of its budget is allocated to fund third parties by the means of open calls, to structure commons that cover the whole Internet scope - from hardware to application, operating systems, digital identities or data traffic supervision. This third-party funding is not renewed in the current program, leaving many projects short on resources for research and innovation in Europe.
Moreover, NGI allows exchanges and collaborations across all the Euro zone countries as well as "widening countries"¹, currently both a success and an ongoing progress, likewise the Erasmus programme before us. NGI also contributes to opening and supporting longer relationships than strict project funding does. It encourages implementing projects funded as pilots, backing collaboration, identification and reuse of common elements across projects, interoperability in identification systems and beyond, and setting up development models that mix diverse scales and types of European funding schemes.
While the USA, China or Russia deploy huge public and private resources to develop software and infrastructure that massively capture private consumer data, the EU can't afford this renunciation. Free and open source software, as supported by NGI since 2020, is by design the opposite of potential vectors for foreign interference. It lets us keep our data local and favors a community-wide economy and know-how, while allowing an international collaboration.
This is all the more essential in the current geopolitical context: the challenge of technological sovereignty is central, and free software allows to address it while acting for peace and sovereignty in the digital world as a whole.
In this perspective, we urge you to claim for preserving the NGI programme as part of the 2025 funding programme.
¹ As defined by Horizon Europe, widening Member States are Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lituania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Widening associated countries (under condition of an association agreement) include Albania, Armenia, Bosnia, Feroe Islands, Georgia, Kosovo, Moldavia, Montenegro, Morocco, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia, Turkeye, and Ukraine. Widening overseas regions are Guadeloupe, French Guyana, Martinique, Reunion Island, Mayotte, Saint-Martin, The Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands.
23 July, 2024 05:30PM by The Guix Project
The GNU C Library
=================
The GNU C Library version 2.40 is now available.
The GNU C Library is used as the C library in the GNU system and
in GNU/Linux systems, as well as many other systems that use Linux
as the kernel.
The GNU C Library is primarily designed to be a portable
and high performance C library. It follows all relevant
standards including ISO C11 and POSIX.1-2017. It is also
internationalized and has one of the most complete
internationalization interfaces known.
The GNU C Library webpage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/
Packages for the 2.40 release may be downloaded from:
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/libc/
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libc/
The mirror list is at http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
Distributions are encouraged to track the release/* branches
corresponding to the releases they are using. The release
branches will be updated with conservative bug fixes and new
features while retaining backwards compatibility.
NEWS for version 2.40
=====================
Major new features:
GCC 14.1 or later to use __builtin_stdc_bit_ceil etc. built-in functions
in order to support unsigned __int128 and/or unsigned _BitInt(N) operands
with arbitrary precisions when supported by the target.
enable features from the ISO C23 standard. Only some features from
this standard are supported by the GNU C Library. The older name
_ISOC2X_SOURCE is still supported. Features from C23 are also enabled
by _GNU_SOURCE, or by compiling with the GCC options -std=c23,
-std=gnu23, -std=c2x or -std=gnu2x.
18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes
functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a
type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>.
- Exponential functions: exp2m1, exp10m1.
- Logarithmic functions: log2p1, log10p1, logp1.
as if it were a setuid process. This is currently a testing tool to allow
more extensive verification tests for AT_SECURE programs and not meant to
be a security feature.
and the related structure added in Linux kernel 6.9.
programs with clang against the GNU C Library.
acosh, asinh, atanh, cbrt, cosh, erf, erfc, hypot, pow, sinh, tanh
of large writes. This behaviour is controlled by a new tunable
x86_memset_non_temporal_threshold.
Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
lastlog, struct utmp, struct utmpx (such as i386, powerpc64le, rv32,
rv64, x86-64) switched from a signed to an unsigned type for that
field. This allows these fields to store timestamps beyond the year
2038, until the year 2106. Please note that applications are still
expected to migrate off the interfaces declared in <utmp.h> and
<utmpx.h> (except for login_tty) due to locking and session management
problems.
initially), not the size of struct rseq (32 bytes initially).
Security related changes:
The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
GLIBC-SA-2024-0004:
ISO-2022-CN-EXT: fix out-of-bound writes when writing escape
sequence (CVE-2024-2961)
GLIBC-SA-2024-0005:
nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache (CVE-2024-33599)
GLIBC-SA-2024-0006:
nscd: Null pointer crash after notfound response (CVE-2024-33600)
GLIBC-SA-2024-0007:
nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation
failure (CVE-2024-33601)
GLIBC-SA-2024-0008:
nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings
(CVE-2024-33602)
The following bugs were resolved with this release:
[19622] network: Support aliasing with struct sockaddr
[21271] localedata: cv_RU: update translations
[23774] localedata: lv_LV collates Y/y incorrectly
[23865] string: wcsstr is quadratic-time
[25119] localedata: Change Czech weekday names to lowercase
[27777] stdio: fclose does a linear search, takes ages when many FILE*
are opened
[29770] libc: prctl does not match manual page ABI on powerpc64le-
linux-gnu
[29845] localedata: Update hr_HR locale currency to €
[30701] time: getutxent misbehaves on 32-bit x86 when _TIME_BITS=64
[31316] build: Fails test misc/tst-dirname "Didn't expect signal from
child: got `Illegal instruction'" on non SSE CPUs
[31317] dynamic-link: [RISCV] static PIE crashes during self
relocation
[31325] libc: mips: clone3 is wrong for o32
[31335] math: Compile glibc with -march=x86-64-v3 should disable FMA4
multi-arch version
[31339] libc: arm32 loader crash after cleanup in 2.36
[31340] manual: A bad sentence in section 22.3.5 (resource.texi)
[31357] dynamic-link: $(objpfx)tst-rtld-list-diagnostics.out rule
doesn't work with test wrapper
[31370] localedata: wcwidth() does not treat
DEFAULT_IGNORABLE_CODE_POINTs as zero-width
[31371] dynamic-link: x86-64: APX and Tile registers aren't preserved
in ld.so trampoline
[31372] dynamic-link: _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic doesn't preserve all caller-
saved registers
[31383] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 and __fortified_attr_access vs size of
0 and zero size types
[31385] build: sort-makefile-lines.py doesn't check variable with _
nor with "^# variable"
[31402] libc: clone (NULL, NULL, ...) clobbers %r7 register on
s390{,x}
[31405] libc: Improve dl_iterate_phdr using _dl_find_object
[31411] localedata: Add Latgalian locale
[31412] build: GCC 6 failed to build i386 glibc on Fedora 39
[31429] build: Glibc failed to build with -march=x86-64-v3
[31468] libc: sigisemptyset returns true when the set contains signals
larger than 34
[31476] network: Automatic activation of single-request options break
resolv.conf reloading
[31479] libc: Missing #include <sys/rseq.h> in sched_getcpu.c may
result in a loss of rseq acceleration
[31501] dynamic-link: _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic_xsavec may clobber %rbx
[31518] manual: documentation: FLT_MAX_10_EXP questionable text, evtl.
wrong,
[31530] localedata: Locale file for Moksha - mdf_RU
[31553] malloc: elf/tst-decorate-maps fails on ppc64el
[31596] libc: On the llvm-arm32 platform, dlopen("not_exist.so", -1)
triggers segmentation fault
[31600] math: math: x86 ceill traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
[31601] math: math: x86 floor traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
[31603] math: math: x86 trunc traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
[31612] libc: arc4random fails to fallback to /dev/urandom if
getrandom is not present
[31629] build: powerpc64: Configuring with "--with-cpu=power10" and
'CFLAGS=-O2 -mcpu=power9' fails to build glibc
[31640] dynamic-link: POWER10 ld.so crashes in
elf_machine_load_address with GCC 14
[31661] libc: NPROCESSORS_CONF and NPROCESSORS_ONLN not available in
getconf
[31676] dynamic-link: Configuring with CC="gcc -march=x86-64-v3"
--with-rtld-early-cflags=-march=x86-64 results in linker failure
[31677] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache: invalid memcpy under low
memory/storage conditions
[31678] nscd: nscd: Null pointer dereferences after failed netgroup
cache insertion
[31679] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory
allocation failure
[31680] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer
strings
[31682] math: [PowerPC] Floating point exception error for math test
test-ceil-except-2 test-floor-except-2 test-trunc-except-2
[31686] dynamic-link: Stack-based buffer overflow in
parse_tunables_string
[31695] libc: pidfd_spawn/pidfd_spawnp leak an fd if clone3 succeeds
but execve fails
[31719] dynamic-link: --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests doesn't work
with -Wl,--enable-new-dtags
[31730] libc: backtrace_symbols_fd prints different strings than
backtrace_symbols returns
[31753] build: FAIL: link-static-libc with GCC 6/7/8
[31755] libc: procutils_read_file doesn't start with a leading
underscore
[31756] libc: write_profiling is only in libc.a
[31757] build: Should XXXf128_do_not_use functions be excluded?
[31759] math: Extra nearbyint symbols in libm.a
[31760] math: Missing math functions
[31764] build: _res_opcodes should be a compat symbol only
[31765] dynamic-link: _dl_mcount_wrapper is exported without prototype
[31766] stdio: IO_stderr _IO_stdin_ _IO_stdout should be compat
symbols
[31768] string: Extra stpncpy symbol in libc.a
[31770] libc: clone3 is in libc.a
[31774] libc: Missing __isnanf128 in libc.a
[31775] math: Missing exp10 exp10f32x exp10f64 fmod fmodf fmodf32
fmodf32x fmodf64 in libm.a
[31777] string: Extra memchr strlen symbols in libc.a
[31781] math: Missing math functions in libm.a
[31782] build: Test build failure with recent GCC trunk (x86/tst-cpu-
features-supports.c:69:3: error: parameter to builtin not valid:
avx5124fmaps)
[31785] string: loongarch: Extra strnlen symbols in libc.a
[31786] string: powerpc: Extra strchrnul and strncasecmp_l symbols in
libc.a
[31787] math: powerpc: Extra llrintf, llrintf, llrintf32, and
llrintf32 symbols in libc.a
[31788] libc: microblaze: Extra cacheflush symbol in libc.a
[31789] libc: powerpc: Extra versionsort symbol in libc.a
[31790] libc: s390: Extra getutent32, getutent32_r, getutid32,
getutid32_r, getutline32, getutline32_r, getutmp32, getutmpx32,
getutxent32, getutxid32, getutxline32, pututline32, pututxline32,
updwtmp32, updwtmpx32 in libc.a
[31797] build: g++ -static requirement should be able to opt-out
[31798] libc: pidfd_getpid.c is miscompiled by GCC 6.4
[31802] time: difftime is pure not const
[31808] time: The supported time_t range is not documented.
[31840] stdio: Memory leak in _IO_new_fdopen (fdopen) on seek failure
[31867] build: "CPU ISA level is lower than required" on SSE2-free
CPUs
[31876] time: "Date and time" documentation fixes for POSIX.1-2024 etc
[31883] build: ISA level support configure check relies on bashism /
is otherwise broken for arithmetic
[31892] build: Always install mtrace.
[31917] libc: clang mq_open fortify wrapper does not handle 4 argument
correctly
[31927] libc: clang open fortify wrapper does not handle argument
correctly
[31931] time: tzset may fault on very short TZ string
[31934] string: wcsncmp crash on s390x on vlbb instruction
[31963] stdio: Crash in _IO_link_in within __gcov_exit
[31965] dynamic-link: rseq extension mechanism does not work as
intended
[31980] build: elf/tst-tunables-enable_secure-env fails on ppc
Release Notes
=============
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.40
Contributors
============
This release was made possible by the contributions of many people.
The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed
changes or bug reports. These include:
Adam Sampson
Adhemerval Zanella
Alejandro Colomar
Alexandre Ferrieux
Amrita H S
Andreas K. Hüttel
Andreas Schwab
Andrew Pinski
Askar Safin
Aurelien Jarno
Avinal Kumar
Carlos Llamas
Carlos O'Donell
Charles Fol
Christoph Müllner
DJ Delorie
Daniel Cederman
Darius Rad
David Paleino
Dragan Stanojević (Nevidljivi)
Evan Green
Fangrui Song
Flavio Cruz
Florian Weimer
Gabi Falk
H.J. Lu
Jakub Jelinek
Jan Kurik
Joe Damato
Joe Ramsay
Joe Simmons-Talbott
Joe Talbott
John David Anglin
Joseph Myers
Jules Bertholet
Julian Zhu
Junxian Zhu
Konstantin Kharlamov
Luca Boccassi
Maciej W. Rozycki
Manjunath Matti
Mark Wielaard
MayShao-oc
Meng Qinggang
Michael Jeanson
Michel Lind
Mike FABIAN
Mohamed Akram
Noah Goldstein
Palmer Dabbelt
Paul Eggert
Philip Kaludercic
Samuel Dobron
Samuel Thibault
Sayan Paul
Sergey Bugaev
Sergey Kolosov
Siddhesh Poyarekar
Simon Chopin
Stafford Horne
Stefan Liebler
Sunil K Pandey
Szabolcs Nagy
Wilco Dijkstra
Xi Ruoyao
Xin Wang
Yinyu Cai
YunQiang Su
We would like to call out the following and thank them for their
tireless patch review:
Adhemerval Zanella
Alejandro Colomar
Andreas K. Hüttel
Arjun Shankar
Aurelien Jarno
Bruno Haible
Carlos O'Donell
DJ Delorie
Dmitry V. Levin
Evan Green
Fangrui Song
Florian Weimer
H.J. Lu
Jonathan Wakely
Joseph Myers
Mathieu Desnoyers
Maxim Kuvyrkov
Michael Jeanson
Noah Goldstein
Palmer Dabbelt
Paul Eggert
Paul E. Murphy
Peter Bergner
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
Sam James
Siddhesh Poyarekar
Simon Chopin
Stefan Liebler
Sunil K Pandey
Szabolcs Nagy
Xi Ruoyao
Zack Weinberg
--
Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer
(council, toolchain, base-system, perl, releng)
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Dilfridge
https://www.akhuettel.de/
22 July, 2024 02:29PM by Andreas K. Hüttel
GNU Parallel 20240722 ('Assange') has been released. It is available for download at: lbry://@GnuParallel:4
Quote of the month:
parallel is frickin great for launching jobs on multiple
machines. Ansible and Jenkins and others may be good too but I was
able to jump right in with parallel.
-- dwhite21787@reddit
New in this release:
News about GNU Parallel:
GNU Parallel - For people who live life in the parallel lane.
If you like GNU Parallel record a video testimonial: Say who you are, what you use GNU Parallel for, how it helps you, and what you like most about it. Include a command that uses GNU Parallel if you feel like it.
GNU Parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers. A job can be a single command or a small script that has to be run for each of the lines in the input. The typical input is a list of files, a list of hosts, a list of users, a list of URLs, or a list of tables. A job can also be a command that reads from a pipe. GNU Parallel can then split the input and pipe it into commands in parallel.
If you use xargs and tee today you will find GNU Parallel very easy to use as GNU Parallel is written to have the same options as xargs. If you write loops in shell, you will find GNU Parallel may be able to replace most of the loops and make them run faster by running several jobs in parallel. GNU Parallel can even replace nested loops.
GNU Parallel makes sure output from the commands is the same output as you would get had you run the commands sequentially. This makes it possible to use output from GNU Parallel as input for other programs.
For example you can run this to convert all jpeg files into png and gif files and have a progress bar:
parallel --bar convert {1} {1.}.{2} ::: *.jpg ::: png gif
Or you can generate big, medium, and small thumbnails of all jpeg files in sub dirs:
find . -name '*.jpg' |
parallel convert -geometry {2} {1} {1//}/thumb{2}_{1/} :::: - ::: 50 100 200
You can find more about GNU Parallel at: http://www.gnu.org/s/parallel/
You can install GNU Parallel in just 10 seconds with:
$ (wget -O - pi.dk/3 || lynx -source pi.dk/3 || curl pi.dk/3/ || \
fetch -o - http://pi.dk/3 ) > install.sh
$ sha1sum install.sh | grep 883c667e01eed62f975ad28b6d50e22a
12345678 883c667e 01eed62f 975ad28b 6d50e22a
$ md5sum install.sh | grep cc21b4c943fd03e93ae1ae49e28573c0
cc21b4c9 43fd03e9 3ae1ae49 e28573c0
$ sha512sum install.sh | grep ec113b49a54e705f86d51e784ebced224fdff3f52
79945d9d 250b42a4 2067bb00 99da012e c113b49a 54e705f8 6d51e784 ebced224
fdff3f52 ca588d64 e75f6033 61bd543f d631f592 2f87ceb2 ab034149 6df84a35
$ bash install.sh
Watch the intro video on http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL284C9FF2488BC6D1
Walk through the tutorial (man parallel_tutorial). Your command line will love you for it.
When using programs that use GNU Parallel to process data for publication please cite:
O. Tange (2018): GNU Parallel 2018, March 2018, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1146014.
If you like GNU Parallel:
If you use programs that use GNU Parallel for research:
If GNU Parallel saves you money:
GNU sql aims to give a simple, unified interface for accessing databases through all the different databases' command line clients. So far the focus has been on giving a common way to specify login information (protocol, username, password, hostname, and port number), size (database and table size), and running queries.
The database is addressed using a DBURL. If commands are left out you will get that database's interactive shell.
When using GNU SQL for a publication please cite:
O. Tange (2011): GNU SQL - A Command Line Tool for Accessing Different Databases Using DBURLs, ;login: The USENIX Magazine, April 2011:29-32.
GNU niceload slows down a program when the computer load average (or other system activity) is above a certain limit. When the limit is reached the program will be suspended for some time. If the limit is a soft limit the program will be allowed to run for short amounts of time before being suspended again. If the limit is a hard limit the program will only be allowed to run when the system is below the limit.
21 July, 2024 03:01AM by Ole Tange
We are happy to announce the completion of milestone 5 for the DHT specification. The general objective is to provide a detailed and comprehensive guide for implementors of the GNUnet DHT "R 5 N". As part of this milestone, the specification was updated and interoperability testing conducted. We submitted the draft to the Independent Stream Editor (ISE) who is going to decide if it will be adopted and shepherded through the RFC process.
The current protocol is implemented as part of GNUnet and gnunet-go as announced on the mailing list when the previous implementation milestones were finished .
We again invite any interested party to read the document and provide critical review and feedback. This greatly helps us to improve the protocol and help future implementations. Contact us at the gnunet-developers mailing list .
This work is generously funded by NLnet as part of their NGI Assure fund .
The GNUnet project was granted NGI funding via NLnet . Other FOSS related projects also benefit from NGI funding. This funding is now at risk for future projects.
The following is an open letter initially published in French by the Petites Singularités association. To co-sign it, please publish it on your website in your preferred language, then add yourself to this table .
Open Letter to the European Commission.
Since 2020, Next Generation Internet ( NGI ) programmes, part of European Commission’s Horizon programme, fund free software in Europe using a cascade funding mechanism (see for example NLnet’s calls ). This year, according to the Horizon Europe working draft detailing funding programmes for 2025, we notice that Next Generation Internet is not mentioned any more as part of Cluster 4.
NGI programmes have shown their strength and importance to supporting the European software infrastructure, as a generic funding instrument to fund digital commons and ensure their long-term sustainability. We find this transformation incomprehensible, moreover when NGI has proven efficient and economical to support free software as a whole, from the smallest to the most established initiatives. This ecosystem diversity backs the strength of European technological innovation, and maintaining the NGI initiative to provide structural support to software projects at the heart of worldwide innovation is key to enforce the sovereignty of a European infrastructure. Contrary to common perception, technical innovations often originate from European rather than North American programming communities, and are mostly initiated by small-scaled organizations.
Previous Cluster 4 allocated 27 million euros to:
In the name of these challenges, more than 500 projects received NGI funding in the first 5 years, backed by 18 organisations managing these European funding consortia.
NGI contributes to a vast ecosystem, as most of its budget is allocated to fund third parties by the means of open calls, to structure commons that cover the whole Internet scope - from hardware to application, operating systems, digital identities or data traffic supervision. This third-party funding is not renewed in the current program, leaving many projects short on resources for research and innovation in Europe.
Moreover, NGI allows exchanges and collaborations across all the Euro zone countries as well as “widening countries” 1 , currently both a success and an ongoing progress, likewise the Erasmus programme before us. NGI also contributes to opening and supporting longer relationships than strict project funding does. It encourages implementing projects funded as pilots, backing collaboration, identification and reuse of common elements across projects, interoperability in identification systems and beyond, and setting up development models that mix diverse scales and types of European funding schemes.
While the USA, China or Russia deploy huge public and private resources to develop software and infrastructure that massively capture private consumer data, the EU can’t afford this renunciation. Free and open source software, as supported by NGI since 2020, is by design the opposite of potential vectors for foreign interference. It lets us keep our data local and favors a community-wide economy and know-how, while allowing an international collaboration. This is all the more essential in the current geopolitical context: the challenge of technological sovereignty is central, and free software allows addressing it while acting for peace and sovereignty in the digital world as a whole.
As defined by Horizon Europe, widening Member States are Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lituania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Widening associated countries (under condition of an association agreement) include Albania, Armenia, Bosnia, Feroe Islands, Georgia, Kosovo, Moldavia, Montenegro, Morocco, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia, Turkeye, and Ukraine. Widening overseas regions are Guadeloupe, French Guyana, Martinique, Reunion Island, Mayotte, Saint-Martin, The Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands. ↩︎
Dear community
I am happy to announce patchset 2.2.1 for MYGNUHealth, the GNU Health Personal Health Record.
This patchset fixes the following issues:
You can download MyGNUHealth source code from the official GNU Savannah (https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/health/mygnuhealth/). You can also install MyGH from the Python Package Index (PyPI) or from your operating system distribution.
Happy hacking
Luis
17 July, 2024 10:10AM by Luis Falcon
When I opened this Savannah project I imported items from the old GNU tasklist document. 20 years later all of the context has been lost (if there ever was any) so now if anyone asks about these tasks it just leads to frustration on everyone's part.
I therefore deleted the original help wanted entries that date back to 2003. If anyone wants to help the GNU project, the best way to do that is to pick one of the FSF's High-Priority projects:
https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects
16 July, 2024 02:35PM by toby cabot
Automake 1.17 released. Announcement:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autotools-announce/2024-07/msg00000.html
14 July, 2024 03:58PM by Karl Berry
The 23rd release of GNU Astronomy Utilities (Gnuastro) is now available. See the full announcement for all the new features in this release and the many bugs that have been found and fixed: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnuastro/2024-07/msg00001.html
13 July, 2024 11:01PM by Mohammad Akhlaghi
After rebuilding all added/modified packages in Trisquel, I have been circling around the elephant in the room: 99% of the binary packages in Trisquel comes from Ubuntu, which to a large extent are built from Debian source packages. Is it possible to rebuild the official binary packages identically? Does anyone make an effort to do so? Does anyone care about going through the differences between the official package and a rebuilt version? Reproducible-build.org‘s effort to track reproducibility bugs in Debian (and other systems) is amazing. However as far as I know, they do not confirm or deny that their rebuilds match the official packages. In fact, typically their rebuilds do not match the official packages, even when they say the package is reproducible, which had me surprised at first. To understand why that happens, compare the buildinfo file for the official coreutils 9.1-1 from Debian bookworm with the buildinfo file for reproducible-build.org’s build and you will see that the SHA256 checksum does not match, but still they declare it as a reproducible package. As far as I can tell of the situation, the purpose of their rebuilds are not to say anything about the official binary build, instead the purpose is to offer a QA service to maintainers by performing two builds of a package and declaring success if both builds match.
I have felt that something is lacking, and months have passed and I haven’t found any project that address the problem I am interested in. During my earlier work I created a project called debdistreproduce which performs rebuilds of the difference between two distributions in a GitLab pipeline, and display diffoscope output for further analysis. A couple of days ago I had the idea of rewriting it to perform rebuilds of a single distribution. A new project debdistrebuild was born and today I’m happy to bless it as version 1.0 and to announces the project! Debdistrebuild has rebuilt the top-50 popcon packages from Debian bullseye, bookworm and trixie, on amd64 and arm64, as well as Ubuntu jammy and noble on amd64, see the summary status page for links. This is intended as a proof of concept, to allow people experiment with the concept of doing GitLab-based package rebuilds and analysis. Compare how Guix has the guix challenge command.
Or I should say debdistrebuild has attempted to rebuild those distributions. The number of identically built packages are fairly low, so I didn’t want to waste resources building the rest of the archive until I understand if the differences are due to consequences of my build environment (plain apt-get build-dep followed by dpkg-buildpackage in a fresh container), or due to some real difference. Summarizing the results, debdistrebuild is able to rebuild 34% of Debian bullseye on amd64, 36% of bookworm on amd64, 32% of bookworm on arm64. The results for trixie and Ubuntu are disappointing, below 10%.
So what causes my rebuilds to be different from the official rebuilds? Some are trivial like the classical problem of varying build paths, resulting in a different NT_GNU_BUILD_ID causing a mismatch. Some are a bit strange, like a subtle difference in one of perl’s headers file. Some are due to embedded version numbers from a build dependency. Several of the build logs and diffoscope outputs doesn’t make sense, likely due to bugs in my build scripts, especially for Ubuntu which appears to strip translations and do other build variations that I don’t do. In general, the classes of reproducibility problems are the expected. Some are assembler differences for GnuPG’s gpgv-static, likely triggered by upload of a new version of gcc after the original package was built. There are at least two ways to resolve that problem: either use the same version of build dependencies that were used to produce the original build, or demand that all packages that are affected by a change in another package are rebuilt centrally until there are no more differences.
The current design of debdistrebuild uses the latest version of a build dependency that is available in the distribution. We call this a “idempotent rebuild“. This is usually not how the binary packages were built originally, they are often built against earlier versions of their build dependency. That is the situation for most binary distributions.
Instead of using the latest build dependency version, higher reproducability may be achieved by rebuilding using the same version of the build dependencies that were used during the original build. This requires parsing buildinfo files to find the right version of the build dependency to install. We believe doing so will lead to a higher number of reproducibly built packages. However it begs the question: can we rebuild that earlier version of the build dependency? This circles back to really old versions and bootstrappable builds eventually.
While rebuilding old versions would be interesting on its own, we believe that is less helpful for trusting the latest version and improving a binary distribution: it is challenging to publish a new version of some old package that would fix a reproducibility bug in another package when used as a build dependency, and then rebuild the later packages with the modified earlier version. Those earlier packages were already published, and are part of history. It may be that ultimately it will no longer be possible to rebuild some package, because proper source code is missing (for packages using build dependencies that were never part of a release); hardware to build a package could be missing; or that the source code is no longer publicly distributable.
I argue that getting to 100% idempotent rebuilds is an interesting goal on its own, and to reach it we need to start measure idempotent rebuild status.
One could conceivable imagine a way to rebuild modified versions of earlier packages, and then rebuild later packages using the modified earlier packages as build dependencies, for the purpose of achieving higher level of reproducible rebuilds of the last version, and to reach for bootstrappability. However, it may be still be that this is insufficient to achieve idempotent rebuilds of the last versions. Idempotent rebuilds are different from a reproducible build (where we try to reproduce the build using the same inputs), and also to bootstrappable builds (in which all binaries are ultimately built from source code). Consider a cycle where package X influence the content of package Y, which in turn influence the content of package X. These cycles may involve several packages, and it is conceivable that a cycle could be circular and infinite. It may be difficult to identify these chains, and even more difficult to break them up, but this effort help identify where to start looking for them. Rebuilding packages using the same build dependency versions as were used during the original build, or rebuilding packages using a bootsrappable build process, both seem orthogonal to the idempotent rebuild problem.
Our notion of rebuildability appears thus to be complementary to reproducible-builds.org’s definition and bootstrappable.org’s definition. Each to their own devices, and Happy Hacking!
Addendum about terminology: With “idempotent rebuild” I am talking about a rebuild of the entire operating system, applied to itself. Compare how you build the latest version of the GNU C Compiler: it first builds itself using whatever system compiler is available (often an earlier version of gcc) which we call step 1. Then step 2 is to build a copy of itself using the compiler built in step 1. The final step 3 is to build another copy of itself using the compiler from step 2. Debian, Ubuntu etc are at step 1 in this process right now. The output of step 2 and step 3 ought to be bit-by-bit identical, or something is wrong. The comparison between step 2 and 3 is what I refer to with an idempotent rebuild. Of course, most packages aren’t a compiler that can compile itself. However entire operating systems such as Trisquel, PureOS, Ubuntu or Debian are (hopefully) a self-contained system that ought to be able to rebuild itself to an identical copy. Or something is amiss. The reproducible build and bootstrappable build projects are about improve the quality of step 1. The property I am interested is the identical rebuild and comparison in step 2 and 3. I feel the word “idempotent” describes the property I’m interested in well, but I realize there may be better ways to describe this. Ideas welcome!
09 July, 2024 10:16PM by simon
When NeXT still existed and the black hardware was a thing, Steve Jobs made the announcement that OPENSTEP would be created and that the object model, not the operating system and not the hardware, was the important thing.
This is a concept that Apple has forgotten. With it's push towards Apple Silicon and a walled-garden, Apple has committed itself to the same pitfall that NeXT fell into. NeXT lacked the infrastructure to handle OPENSTEP running on multiple kinds of hardware, but the object model on different OSes was successful... this is evident in OPENSTEP1.1 for Solaris and OPENSTEP for NT.
GNUstep attempts to reach the same goal, but provides the APIs that are available with Cocoa. The object model IS the important thing and this is why GNUstep is so important. It breaks the walled garden and makes it possible for users to run their apps and tools on other operating systems. GNUstep HASN'T forgotten and we believe this is a core concept that Apple has left behind.
03 July, 2024 11:03PM by Unknown (noreply@blogger.com)
GNU direvent version 5.4 is available for download.
New in this version:
It is possible to limit number of command instances that are allowed to run simultaneously for a particular watcher. This is done using
the max-instances statement in watcher section.
In previous version, watchers waited for the handler to terminate, unless given the nowait option explicitly. It is now fixed and nowait is the default, as described in the documentation.
In some cases setting the sentinel effectively removed the original watcher. That happened if the full file name of the original watcher
and its directory part produced the same hash code.
02 July, 2024 04:00PM by Sergey Poznyakoff
GNU dbm version 1.24 is available for download. New in this version:
The --update (-U) option instructs gdbm_load to update an existing database.
The --replace (-r) is valid only when used together with --update.
In contrast to gdbm_load and gdbm_load_from_file, which derive the value of the flag parameter for gdbm_open from the value of their replace argument, this function allows the caller to specify it explicitly.
02 July, 2024 02:28PM by Sergey Poznyakoff
from arch:
After upgrading to openssh-9.8p1, the existing SSH daemon will be unable to accept new connections.
When upgrading remote hosts, please make sure to restart the sshd service
using systemctl try-restart sshd right after upgrading.
We are evaluating the possibility to automatically apply a restart of the sshd service on upgrade in a future release of the openssh-9.8p1 package.
01 July, 2024 06:52PM by bill auger
I am happy to announce a new release of GNU poke, version 4.2.
This is a bugfix release in the 4.x series.
See the file NEWS in the distribution tarball for a list of issues
fixed in this release.
The tarball poke-4.2.tar.gz is now available at
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/poke/poke-4.2.tar.gz.
> GNU poke (http://www.jemarch.net/poke) is an interactive, extensible
> editor for binary data. Not limited to editing basic entities such
> as bits and bytes, it provides a full-fledged procedural,
> interactive programming language designed to describe data
> structures and to operate on them.
Thanks to the people who contributed with code and/or documentation to
this release.
Happy poking!
Mohammad-Reza Nabipoor
30 June, 2024 09:03PM by Mohammad-Reza Nabipoor
The title of this article, “Migrar, migrant, migrà rem“, comes from a beautiful poem written by Laia Porcar[1], that inspired the strikingly profound painting by Sara Belles [2] “Jo per tu, fill meu“. The artists reflect the migrants ordeal to provide a better life to their children and families, even at the cost of losing their own lives.
GNU Health[3] is a Social project with some technology behind and the mission at Sea-Eye is one of the best examples. After all, GNU Solidario[4] is a NGO that focuses in the advancement of Social Medicine.
We live a world of injustice. Concentration of power, social gradient and poverty rates keep on the rise. Artificial intelligence is on the hands of mega private corporations, targeting our privacy and feeding the macabre business of war. The fight for scarce natural resources such as lithium or coltan creates coups in impoverished countries. Nature and non-human animals are used and abused as mere commodities. Our world turns a blind eye to the systematic crushing and eradication of civilian population by powerful armies. As a result, we live in a world where migration is not a choice, but the only way out for millions of human beings, even at the risk of becoming anonymous victims in the Atlantic ocean or Mediterranean sea mass graveyards.
But there is hope. The Sea-Eye mission is the end result of a network of solidarity, cooperation and empathy. The Free Software movement started by Richard Stallman[5]; Julian Sassenscheidt message in Mastodon and his presentation at GNU Health Con 2023[6] ; The work of our representative in Germany, Gerald Wiese; the Chaos Computer Club[7]; the team from L’Aurora[8] providing logistic support to the Search and Rescue vessels; the phenomenal Sea-Eye family who made me feel at home: The cook, crew on deck, the logistics and medical team who stood stoically intensive hours of GNU Health training. Of course, Selene, the heart of GNU Solidario and the one that looks after the human and non-human family members while I’m away.
You will hardly see these people in the news, because most corporate-backed media neglect them and their organizations. Unlike some billionaire “philanthropists” that take the media spotlight, these anonymous heroes stand on the right side of history, making a difference on the present and future of those who need it most, with very limited resources.
We’re very happy and proud to see that GNU Health can be of help to Sea-Eye in tasks such as guests registration, health evaluations, reporting, statistics and stock management. This is just the beginning and we will be optimizing and adding functionality on successive missions. That said, GNU Health will always play a secondary role compared to picking up somebody from the water and giving them a welcoming hug. Again, we’re a social project with a bit of technology behind.
I’d like to finish with a reflection on the picture I took to some of the drawings done by children during their stay at the Sea-Eye. The drawings exist because the Sea-eye crew rescued those kids. Otherwise, their corpses would be at the bottom of the Mediterranean sea, along with thousands who tragically perished trying to find dignity in this world. Thank you, Sea-eye. You are priceless.
A final note: shame on those countries and governments that detain and punish Search and Rescue vessels. Saving lives is not a crime.
Love, freedom and happy hacking
You can obtain Sara Belles painting and Laia Porcar poem from L’Aurora solidarity shop[8]
27 June, 2024 07:48PM by Luis Falcon
So... recently I was working for a bit (sweat equity or so I thought) for a company by the name of ImmortalData. The company is headed by a man by the name of Dale Amon. I have worked, on and off, for them for about 2-3 years. They are developing a piece of software that is used to extract data from their proprietary black box systems. This piece of software uses GNUstep. They were born from a previous company known as XCOR which was developing a space plane at the Mojave space port. That company is now defunct.
Okay, so with that bit of history, I worked for a while for XCOR and then, because ImmortalData inherited the software, for them as well. When I worked for XCOR it was as a contractor. There have been issues with the software (some GNUstep bugs and some bugs due to problems introduced by Dale) that I have been asked to address.
At the end of a meeting a few weeks ago Dale made a comment like "Well, this issue seems like a GNUstep bug, so there is no reason we should have to pay for any of this" which hit an EXTREMELY sour note with me.
Later on that week I tried to clarify it with Dale, and it seems as though he was under the impression that since I was working on Free Software any changes or fixes TO that software should not be billable. This is NOT true. Additionally, the issue that they are experiencing is because of something THEY did, and it is not a GNUstep bug.
I mentioned this in the previous post, but I feel strongly that this needs to be called out explicitly. Free Software is free as in FREEDOM. This means you are free to look at, examine, and modify the software as you see fit. It does NOT mean services performed on that software on your behalf by someone other than you are free.
This development was VERY upsetting to me and I feel the need to make the above VERY clear.
27 June, 2024 10:16AM by Unknown (noreply@blogger.com)
GNU Parallel 20240622 ('34 counts') has been released. It is available for download at: lbry://@GnuParallel:4
Quote of the month:
The most glorious 15,000 lines of Perl ever written.
-- @nibblrrr7124@YouTube
New in this release:
News about GNU Parallel:
GNU Parallel - For people who live life in the parallel lane.
If you like GNU Parallel record a video testimonial: Say who you are, what you use GNU Parallel for, how it helps you, and what you like most about it. Include a command that uses GNU Parallel if you feel like it.
GNU Parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers. A job can be a single command or a small script that has to be run for each of the lines in the input. The typical input is a list of files, a list of hosts, a list of users, a list of URLs, or a list of tables. A job can also be a command that reads from a pipe. GNU Parallel can then split the input and pipe it into commands in parallel.
If you use xargs and tee today you will find GNU Parallel very easy to use as GNU Parallel is written to have the same options as xargs. If you write loops in shell, you will find GNU Parallel may be able to replace most of the loops and make them run faster by running several jobs in parallel. GNU Parallel can even replace nested loops.
GNU Parallel makes sure output from the commands is the same output as you would get had you run the commands sequentially. This makes it possible to use output from GNU Parallel as input for other programs.
For example you can run this to convert all jpeg files into png and gif files and have a progress bar:
parallel --bar convert {1} {1.}.{2} ::: *.jpg ::: png gif
Or you can generate big, medium, and small thumbnails of all jpeg files in sub dirs:
find . -name '*.jpg' |
parallel convert -geometry {2} {1} {1//}/thumb{2}_{1/} :::: - ::: 50 100 200
You can find more about GNU Parallel at: http://www.gnu.org/s/parallel/
You can install GNU Parallel in just 10 seconds with:
$ (wget -O - pi.dk/3 || lynx -source pi.dk/3 || curl pi.dk/3/ || \
fetch -o - http://pi.dk/3 ) > install.sh
$ sha1sum install.sh | grep 883c667e01eed62f975ad28b6d50e22a
12345678 883c667e 01eed62f 975ad28b 6d50e22a
$ md5sum install.sh | grep cc21b4c943fd03e93ae1ae49e28573c0
cc21b4c9 43fd03e9 3ae1ae49 e28573c0
$ sha512sum install.sh | grep ec113b49a54e705f86d51e784ebced224fdff3f52
79945d9d 250b42a4 2067bb00 99da012e c113b49a 54e705f8 6d51e784 ebced224
fdff3f52 ca588d64 e75f6033 61bd543f d631f592 2f87ceb2 ab034149 6df84a35
$ bash install.sh
Watch the intro video on http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL284C9FF2488BC6D1
Walk through the tutorial (man parallel_tutorial). Your command line will love you for it.
When using programs that use GNU Parallel to process data for publication please cite:
O. Tange (2018): GNU Parallel 2018, March 2018, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1146014.
If you like GNU Parallel:
If you use programs that use GNU Parallel for research:
If GNU Parallel saves you money:
GNU sql aims to give a simple, unified interface for accessing databases through all the different databases' command line clients. So far the focus has been on giving a common way to specify login information (protocol, username, password, hostname, and port number), size (database and table size), and running queries.
The database is addressed using a DBURL. If commands are left out you will get that database's interactive shell.
When using GNU SQL for a publication please cite:
O. Tange (2011): GNU SQL - A Command Line Tool for Accessing Different Databases Using DBURLs, ;login: The USENIX Magazine, April 2011:29-32.
GNU niceload slows down a program when the computer load average (or other system activity) is above a certain limit. When the limit is reached the program will be suspended for some time. If the limit is a soft limit the program will be allowed to run for short amounts of time before being suspended again. If the limit is a hard limit the program will only be allowed to run when the system is below the limit.
24 June, 2024 07:00PM by Ole Tange
We are pleased to finally announce the release of GNU Guile 3.0.10! This release is mainly a bug-fix release, though it does include a number of new features:
define definitions in all forms with bodies:
when and unless, cond and case clauses, and so on.For full details, see the release announcement, and check out the download page.
Happy Guile hacking!
24 June, 2024 03:30PM by Andy Wingo (guile-devel@gnu.org)
automake 1.16.92 pretest release candidate released. Please test if you can, so 1.17 will be as reliable as we can make it. Announcement:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autotools-announce/2024-06/msg00001.html
21 June, 2024 10:01PM by Karl Berry
Dear all
I am happy to announce the release of MyGNUHealth 2.2.0!
The new series of the GNU Health Personal Health record comes with many improvements and bug fixes. Some highlights of this new version:
Thanks to Kivy, Mygnuhealth codebase can be ported to other architectures and operating systems such as Android AOSP (Pierre Michel is working on this) and GNU/Linux phones.
In addition to Savannah, we have incorporated Codeberg to the GNU Health development environment. Mailing lists, news and file downloads are at GNU, while the development repositories are at Codeberg (https://codeberg.org/gnuhealth)
You can download the latest MyGNUhealth sourcecode from GNU ftp site, pypi (using pip) or from your operating system package (like openSUSE).
Upgrading should be straightforward, and all the health history will remain in the MyGH database. In any case, please make sure you make a backup before upgrading (and daily ;) ).
Thank you to all the contributors that have possible this milestone!
Happy hacking
Luis
21 June, 2024 09:44AM by Luis Falcon
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