What was New in 1996 on the GNU Web Site

December 1996

30 Dec 96

All our pages are Best Viewed with Any Browser.

21 Dec 96

We invite you to the Second Conference on Freely Redistributable Software to be held on 20-21 February 1997 at the San Francisco Hilton in San Francisco, CA, USA.

Here are the

• Tutorials Announcement and Conference Schedule
• Registration Form
• Hotel Information
• Call for Papers

November 1996

26 Nov 96

Added a link on the GNU Software page to Wget, an non-interactive web-mirroring utility.

24 Nov 96

We thank Ewald <ewald@ctaz.net> for just finishing the design of this FSF logo.

23 Nov 96

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

• in France, http://gnu.via.ecp.fr - mirrored daily - questions to Yann Doussot, <doussot@via.ecp.fr>
• in Germany, http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~gnu, - mirrored daily - questions to Peter Gerwinski, <peter.gerwinski@uni-essen.de>

The GNU Project thanks both sites, Yann, and Peter.

10 Nov 96

Information about GNU libc, including the status of forthcoming version 2.

10 Nov 96

A speech that Richard Stallman gave in 1986 (100k characters)
at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.

3 Nov 96

Old editions of GNU's manuals are on sale at reduced prices.

2 Nov 96

We have started a list of unofficial translations of the GPL (GNU General Public License).

October 1996

28 Oct 96

Added a convenient list of GNU manuals and their descriptions and a list of ISBNs for GNU manuals.

25 Oct 96

Added a page to list past, present, and future FSF sponsored conferences.

24 Oct 96

The FSF is calling for papers and tutorials for the Second Conference on Freely Redistributable Software to be held on 20-21 February 1997 at the San Francisco Hilton in San Francisco, CA, USA.

12 Oct 96

Added information on GNU Stow.

September 1996

30 Sep 96

Added information on the Teak desktop project.

20 Sep 96

Added more then one format for the

• GNU Task List
• GNU Coding Standards
• Information For Maintainers of GNU Software

19 Sep 96

Added advice for running a mirror of this web site.

15 Sep 96

Installed the July 1996 GNU's Bulletin.

6 Sep 96

Added Why Software Should Not Have Owners by Richard Stallman.

August 1996

21 Aug 96

Updated the FSF order form to latest version.

13 Aug 96

This web site, www.gnu.org, announced on the mailing list info-gnu@gnu.org and on the gnUSENET newsgroup gnu.announce.

What was New in Prior Years

• 1999
• 1998
• 1997
• 1996

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Updated: 8 Aug 2000 tower