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From: |
Karl Berry |
Subject: |
www/software software.html |
Date: |
Sun, 28 May 2006 21:31:53 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Branch:
Changes by: Karl Berry <address@hidden> 06/05/28 21:31:53
Modified files:
software : software.html
Log message:
decommissioned packages
CVSWeb URLs:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/www/software/software.html.diff?tr1=1.80&tr2=1.81&r1=text&r2=text
Patches:
Index: www/software/software.html
diff -u www/software/software.html:1.80 www/software/software.html:1.81
--- www/software/software.html:1.80 Sat May 20 08:47:20 2006
+++ www/software/software.html Sun May 28 21:31:51 2006
@@ -37,12 +37,12 @@
<A NAME="DescriptionsOfOtherGPLSoftware"> </A>
<A NAME="DescriptionsOfOtherNonGPLSoftware"> </A>
-For a list of GNU and non-GNU free software packages, See the <A
+<p>
+To look for free software packages, both GNU and non-GNU, please see the <A
HREF="http://www.gnu.org/directory/" NAME="FreeSoftwareDirectory">Free Software
Directory</A>: a categorized, searchable database of free software.
This directory is actively maintained by the Free Software Foundation
-and includes links to program home pages when they are available. To
-look for free software, please <a href="http://www.gnu.org/directory/">go
there</a>.
+and includes links to program home pages when they are available.
<P>
If you're looking for a list of GNU projects or other free software related
@@ -50,9 +50,9 @@
page. For ways to contribute to these projects, please have a
look at our <a href="/projects/help-wanted.html">the projects
help-wanted</a> page.
-<P>
For other ways to contribute to GNU, see <a href="/help/help.html">the
GNU help-wanted</a> page.
+
<P>
If you want to buy a new computer, you might want to consider one of
<A HREF="/links/companies.html">these companies</A> who sell computers
@@ -62,18 +62,32 @@
For information on the licenses used on GNU software, and on other free
software licenses, please see our
<a href="/licenses/licenses.html">Licenses</a> page.
-<P>
+<P>
If you are developing a GNU package, or you are thinking of starting,
you may be interested in <A HREF="/software/devel.html">GNU Software
Developer Resources</A>.
-<P>
-If you'd like to make your software a GNU project, or
- officially a GNU package, take a look at the <a
href="/prep/maintain_toc.html">GNU Maintainers Guide</a> and the <a
href="/prep/standards.html">GNU Coding standards</a>, and then write to <a
href="mailto:address@hidden">address@hidden</a>.
<p>
+If you'd like to make your software a GNU project, or
+officially a GNU package, please see the <a
+href="/help/evaluation.html">evaluation form</a>.
+
+<!-- after a couple more packages have been decommissioned, it would
+ make sense to move the list to an entirely separate page. Just
+ didn't seem worth it yet. --karl, 28may06 -->
+<p>A few GNU packages have been decommissioned, generally because
+they've been superseded by or integrated into other packages. Pages
+still exist for the sake of people searching:
+<a href="checker/">checker</a>,
+<a href="dld/">dld</a>,
+<a href="gtkeditor/">gtkeditor</a>.
+
+<p>Finally, <a href="/software/for-windows.html">here is a short list of
+Free Software for Microsoft Windows</a>, for the Windows user who is
+curious about Free Software but isn't ready to use a Free operating
+system (yet ;).</p>
-<p>Also, <a href="/software/for-windows.html">here is a short list of Free
Software for Microsoft Windows</a>, for the Windows user who is curious about
Free Software but isn't ready to use a Free operating system (yet ;).</p>
<H4><A HREF="software.html#TOCHowToGetSoftware"
NAME="HowToGetSoftware">How To Get GNU Software</A></H4>
@@ -131,7 +145,7 @@
<P>
Last updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2006/05/20 08:47:20 $ $Author: hicham $
+$Date: 2006/05/28 21:31:51 $ $Author: karl $
<!-- timestamp end -->
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