www software/software.html doc/doc.html links/l...

[Karl Berry]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Karl Berry <karl>       08/12/22 17:52:38

Modified files:
        software       : software.html 
        doc            : doc.html 
        links          : links.html 

Log message:
        documentation links, minor rearrangements

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/software/software.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.145&r2=1.146
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/doc/doc.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.45&r2=1.46
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/links/links.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.168&r2=1.169

Patches:
Index: software/software.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/software/software.html,v
retrieving revision 1.145
retrieving revision 1.146
diff -u -b -r1.145 -r1.146
--- software/software.html      29 Nov 2008 14:51:04 -0000      1.145
+++ software/software.html      22 Dec 2008 17:52:03 -0000      1.146
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@
 actively maintained by the <a href="http://www.fsf.org/";>Free Software
 Foundation</a> and includes links to program home pages where available.
 It also includes a list of <a href="http://directory.fsf.org/GNU/";>all
-GNU packages</a> along with their <a href="/manual/">documentation</a>
-and other information.</p>
+GNU packages</a>.  <a href="/doc/doc.html">Free software documentation
+links</a> are listed separately.</p>
 
 <p>We also maintain a list of <a
 href="http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html";>high-priority free
@@ -35,37 +35,28 @@
 <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>.  If you'd like to make your software an
-official GNU package, please see the <a
-href="/help/evaluation.html">evaluation information and submission
-form</a>.</p>
-
-<p>For information on the licenses used for GNU software, and on other
-free software licenses, please see our <a
+official GNU package, see the <a href="/help/evaluation.html">evaluation
+information and submission form</a>.  For information on the licenses
+used for GNU software, and on other free software licenses, see our <a
 href="/licenses/licenses.html">Licenses</a> page.</p>
 
-<p>
-Finally, here is <a href="/software/for-windows.html">a short list
+<p>Finally, here is <a href="/software/for-windows.html">a short list
 of free software for Microsoft Windows</a>, for the Windows user who
-is curious about free software.  
-</p>
+is curious about free software.</p>
+
 
 <h3 id="getgnu">How To Get GNU Software</h3>
 
 <p>GNU software is available by several different methods:</p>
 
 <ul>
-<li><a href="http://shop.fsf.org/";>Buy distributions</a> from
-the <a href="http://www.fsf.org/";>FSF</a>. This helps provide the
-funds for the GNU Project.</li>
-
 <li><a href="/order/ftp.html">Download it from the web or via FTP</a>:
 we provide source code for all GNU software, free of charge.
 (Please also make a <a href="/help/donate.html">donation</a> to the FSF,
 if you can, to help us write more free software.)</li>
 
-<li>Get a copy from a friend.<br />
-(Please also make a <a href="/help/donate.html">donation</a> to the FSF,
-if you can, to help us promote free software.)</li>
+<li>Get a copy from a friend.  (Likewise please make a donation if you
+can.)</li>
 
 <li>Buy a computer with a wholly free GNU/Linux system preinstalled
 from <a href="/links/companies.html">one of the companies</a> that can
@@ -83,11 +74,9 @@
 
 <h3>Decommissioned GNU packages</h3>
 
-<p>
-GNU packages are occasionally decommissioned, generally because they've
-been superseded by, or integrated into, other packages.  Here is the list,
-for the sake of people searching; we leave the old project pages up
-(when they existed) too:
+<p>GNU packages are occasionally decommissioned, generally because
+they've been superseded by, or integrated into, other packages.  Here is
+the list; we leave the old project pages up (when they existed):
 
 <a href="gnu3dkit/">3dkit</a>,
 <a href="abcsh/">abcsh</a>,
@@ -171,7 +160,7 @@
 <p>
 Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2008/11/29 14:51:04 $
+$Date: 2008/12/22 17:52:03 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: doc/doc.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/doc/doc.html,v
retrieving revision 1.45
retrieving revision 1.46
diff -u -b -r1.45 -r1.46
--- doc/doc.html        24 Aug 2008 18:22:53 -0000      1.45
+++ doc/doc.html        22 Dec 2008 17:52:32 -0000      1.46
@@ -9,14 +9,24 @@
 </p>
 
 <ul>
-<li><a href="/manual/manual.html">GNU manuals online</a>.</li>
+<li>The <a href="http://directory.fsf.org/";>Free Software Directory</a>
+    includes links to documentation.</li>
+
+<li>Most <a href="/manual/manual.html">GNU manuals</a> are online in
+    various formats.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://planet.gnu.org";>planet.gnu.org</a> is an aggregation of
+    blogs and news announcements from GNU packages.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.changelog.org";>changelog.log</a> is an aggregation of
+    ChangeLog entries from GNU and GNOME projects.</a></li>
 
 <li><a href="http://shop.fsf.org";>FSF online store: Printed books, T-shirts,
-posters, software and more.</a></li>
+    posters, and more.</a></li>
 
 <li><a href="other-free-books.html">Free books from other publishers</a>:
-Printed books from other publishers using free documentation
-licenses.</li>
+    Printed books from other publishers using free documentation
+    licenses.</li>
 </ul>
 
 
@@ -73,7 +83,7 @@
 <p>
 Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2008/08/24 18:22:53 $
+$Date: 2008/12/22 17:52:32 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: links/links.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/links/links.html,v
retrieving revision 1.168
retrieving revision 1.169
diff -u -b -r1.168 -r1.169
--- links/links.html    19 Dec 2008 21:02:23 -0000      1.168
+++ links/links.html    22 Dec 2008 17:52:35 -0000      1.169
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 system distributions, or to the well-known BSD system
 distributions, because all those sites explicitly describe,
 and facilitate access to, various non-free programs.  We would
-be glad to know of other Free Software web sites that we could
+be glad to know of other free software web sites that we could
 link to here.
 </p>
 
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 content of other web sites, or how up-to-date their content
 is.</span></em></p>
 
+
 <h3 id="FreeGNULinuxDistributions">Free GNU/Linux distributions</h3>
 
 <p>
@@ -53,11 +54,10 @@
 work to achieve that goal, and hope to list them here some day.
 </p>
 
-<p>
-All of the distributions that follow are installable to a computer
+<p>All of the distributions that follow are installable to a computer
 hard drive and most can be run live.  They are listed in no particular
-order.
-</p>
+order.  We list <a href="companies.html">companies that sell hardware
+preinstalled with a free GNU/Linux distribution</a> separately.</p>
 
 <ul>
   <li>
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@
   </li>
 </ul>
 
+
 <h3>Other free operating systems</h3>
 
 <p>
@@ -129,6 +130,9 @@
        EmacsWiki: ElispArea</a></li>
   <li><a href="http://ftp.back2roots.org/geekgadgets/";>GNU
        programs for the Amiga and BeOS</a></li>
+  <li><a href="/software/for-windows.html">A short list of free software
+      for Microsoft Windows</a>, for the Windows user who is curious
+      about free software.</li>
 </ul>
 
 
@@ -144,10 +148,6 @@
        delorie.com.</a></li>
   <li><a href="http://www.mibsoftware.com/reuse/";>Reuse RKT</a> provides
        links to FAQs, standards and references.</li>
-  <li><a href="http://planet.gnu.org";>planet.gnu.org</a> aggregates 
-       blogs and news announcements from GNU packages.</li>
-  <li><a href="http://www.changelog.org";>Aggregation of ChangeLog
-       entries from GNU and GNOME projects.</a></li>
   <li><a href="/software/gnujdoc/gnujdoc.html">GNUjdoc</a> is a central
        archive of Japanese translations of GNU documents.</li>
 </ul>
@@ -156,8 +156,10 @@
 <h3>Unofficial GNU sites</h3>
 
 <ul>
-  <li><a href="http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~trent/gnu";>Trent's pages</a></li>
-  <li><a href="http://www.gnu.cz";>A GNU page in Czech</a></li>
+  <li><a href="http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~trent/gnu";>Trent's pages.</a></li>
+  <li><a href="http://www.gnu.cz/";>A GNU page in Czech.</a></li>
+  <li><a href="http://www.gnuino.org/";>A Spanish
+    introduction to free software.</li>
 </ul>
 
 
@@ -169,6 +171,8 @@
 <li><a href="http://www.ourproject.org";>OurProject.org</a>
     - Free Software &amp; Free Knowledge for a Free Society (mostly in
     Spanish).</li>
+<li><a href="http://www.mutopiaproject.org/";>Mutopia</a> - collects and
+    distributes free music, and information about free music.</li>
 </ul>
 
 
@@ -184,6 +188,18 @@
   <li><a href="http://it.gnu.org";>GNU Italia</a> - The Italian branch
   of the GNU Project</li>
 
+  <li><a href="http://www.fsfeurope.org/";>FSF Europe</a>, Free Software
+  Foundation Europe.</li>
+
+  <li><a href="http://fsffrance.org/";>FSF France</a>, Free Software
+  Foundation France.</li>
+
+  <li><a href="http://gnu.org.in/";>FSF India</a>, Free Software
+  Foundation India.</li>
+
+  <li><a href="http://www.fsfla.org";>FSF Latin America</a>, Free
+  Software Foundation Latin America</li>
+
   <li><a href="http://www.belgeler.org/";>Belgeler.org</a> - A very
   compherensive Turkish Translation project including philosophical
   writings about Free Software</li>
@@ -193,13 +209,11 @@
   <li><a href="http://eupat.ffii.org/patente/";>European Software
   Patent Horror Gallery</a></li>
 
-
   <li><a href="http://swpat.ffii.org/";>FFII: Protecting Information
   Innovation against the Abuse of the Patent System</a></li>
+
  <li><a href="http://www.icot.or.jp/";>ICOT Free Software</a> (in
   Japanese)</li>
- <li><a href="http://www.mutopiaproject.org/";>Mutopia</a> collects and
-  distributes free music, and information about free music.</li>
 
   <li><a href="http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org";>Public Library
   of Science</a> organizes support for online public libraries of
@@ -208,6 +222,7 @@
   <li><a href="http://www.opencores.org";>OpenCores.Org</a> is a
   volunteer group interested in developing hardware, with a similar
   ethos to the free software movement.</li>
+
  <li><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org";>OpenStreetMap is a free
   editable map of the whole world. OpenStreetMap allows you to freely
   view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative
@@ -216,25 +231,22 @@
   <li><a href="http://www.vhdl.org/fmf";>The Free Model Foundry</a> -
   for electrical engineers, free simulation models of digital
   components.</li>
+
  <li><a href="http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi/0/";>Archives</a>
   of the Free Software Business mailing list</li>
+
  <li><a href="http://www.ffii.org";>Association For a Free
   Informational Infrastructure (FFII)</a></li>
+
  <li><a href="http://www.opencode.org/";>OpenCode</a></li>
+
  <li><a href="http://freegis.org";>FreeGIS Project</a></li>
+ 
  <li><a href="http://translation.sourceforge.net";>Translation
   Project</a></li>
+
  <li><a href="http://www.ofset.org"; name="OFSET">OFSET</a> - The
   Organization for Free Software in Education and Teaching.</li>
- <li><a href="http://www.fsfeurope.org/";>FSF Europe</a>, Free Software
-  Foundation Europe.</li>
- <li><a href="http://fsffrance.org/";>FSF France</a>, Free Software
-  Foundation France.</li>
- <li><a href="http://gnu.org.in/";>FSF India</a>, the Indian branch of
-  the FSF.</li>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.fsfla.org";>FSF Latin America</a>, Free
-  Software Foundation Latin America</li>
 
  <li><a href="http://www.cipsga.org.br/";>CIPSGA</a></li>
 
@@ -251,8 +263,8 @@
   and Resources</a>, an organization dedicated to create opportunities
   for development and education with Free Software in Africa.</li>
 
- <li><a href="http://www.gnu.org/gugve";>GUGVe</a>, promoting the Free
-  Software in Venezuela.</li>
+  <li><a href="http://www.gnu.org/gugve";>GUGVe</a>, promoting free
+  software in Venezuela.</li>
 
  <li><a href="http://www.gnulinuxclub.org";>GnuLinuxClub.org</a>,
   dedicated to the propagation and usage of GNU/Linux and Free
@@ -269,15 +281,6 @@
   <li><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/";>Sugar Labs</a>, an
   organization set up to continue development of the Sugar desktop
   environment.</li>
-
-</ul>
-
-
-<h3>Sites about the use and development of free software</h3>
-
-<ul>
-  <li><a href="http://www.gnuino.org/";>gnuino.org</a> - a Spanish
-    introduction to free software.</li>
 </ul>
 
 
@@ -380,10 +383,10 @@
 <h3>Hosting</h3>
 
 <p>These sites provide hosting for free software packages, focused on
-source code.  (We don't list other well-known hosting sites since they
+source code.  We don't list other well-known hosting sites since they
 have advertisements or other encouragement for proprietary software.  As
 usual, contact us at &lt;address@hidden&gt; if you have suggestions
-to add to the list.)</p>
+for the list.</p>
 
 <ul>
 <li><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/";>Savannah</a>, the hosting site
@@ -395,35 +398,27 @@
 
 <p>In contrast, these sites offers general hosting for domains,
 including email and web support, with an emphasis on the libre
-philosophy.  (They are not directly focused on software
-development.)</p>
+philosophy.  They are not directly focused on software
+development.</p>
 
 <ul>
 <li><a href="http://sfccp.net";>sfccp.net</a>, the San Francisco Community
     Colocation Project provides a location for non-profit organizations
     to host their own servers.</li>
-
-<!-- says it's "invite-only" as of 28sep08 -karl
-<li><a href="http://mjzhosting.net";>mjzhosting.net</a>, with a special
-    interest in aiding any person, project or collective interested in
-    <a href="http://www.mjzhosting.net/free.php#2b";>radical social
-    change</a> (&ldquo; &hellip; principles of production and distribution
-    involved with free software development&mdash;in terms of the
-    visions of social organization qua hospitality it reflects and the
-    relatively successful examples of praxis it represents&mdash;should
-    be considered nothing short of a prelude to radicality
-    &hellip; &rdquo;)</li>
--->
 </ul>
 
 
 <h3>News about free software</h3>
 
-<p>These sites offer updated news about free software and (in some cases)
-GNU software.</p>
+<p>These sites offer updated news about GNU and other free software.</p>
 
 <ul>
-  <li><a href="http://singapore.gnu.googlepages.com/press";>Press/News</a> - 
free software news from a Singapore GNU users group.</li>
+<li><a href="http://planet.gnu.org";>planet.gnu.org</a>, aggregation of
+    blogs and news announcements from GNU packages.</li>
+<li><a href="http://www.changelog.org";>changelog.log,</a> aggregation of
+    ChangeLog entries from GNU and GNOME projects.</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://singapore.gnu.googlepages.com/press";>Press/News</a>,
+    free software news from a Singapore GNU users group.</li>
 <li><a href="http://news.northxsouth.com";>news.northxsouth.com</a>, news
     about free software in Latin America.</li>
 <li><a href="http://gnuticias.es.gnu.org";>GNUticias</a>, news about
@@ -464,7 +459,7 @@
 <p>
 Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2008/12/19 21:02:23 $
+$Date: 2008/12/22 17:52:35 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>