www/software software.html

[Karl Berry]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Karl Berry <karl>       11/10/21 23:54:08

Modified files:
        software       : software.html 

Log message:
        link to volunteer PPAs (#707205), mention gsrc, et al.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/software/software.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.177&r2=1.178

Patches:
Index: software.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/software/software.html,v
retrieving revision 1.177
retrieving revision 1.178
diff -u -b -r1.177 -r1.178
--- software.html       30 Sep 2011 13:59:59 -0000      1.177
+++ software.html       21 Oct 2011 23:54:03 -0000      1.178
@@ -46,9 +46,9 @@
 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
-of free software for Microsoft Windows</a>, for the Windows user who
-would like to try free software.</p>
+<p>Finally, we have a <a href="/software/for-windows.html">short list of
+free software for Microsoft Windows</a>, for the Windows user who would
+like to try free software.</p>
 
 
 <h3 id="getgnu">How to get GNU software</h3>
@@ -56,14 +56,6 @@
 <p>GNU software is available by several different methods:</p>
 
 <ul>
-<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.  (Likewise please make a donation if you
-can.)</li>
-
 <li>Download a <a href="/distros/free-distros.html">wholly free
 GNU/Linux distribution</a>.</li>
 
@@ -71,6 +63,27 @@
 from <a href="/links/companies.html">one of the companies</a> that
 offers this.</li>
 
+<li><a href="/order/ftp.html">Download individual packages from the web
+or via FTP</a>: we provide source code for all GNU software as <a
+href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a>, and 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.  (Likewise please make a donation if you
+can.)</li>
+
+<li>Use the <a href="/software/gsrc/gsrc.html">GNU GSRC</a> package to
+easily install many of the latest GNU package releases on their own,
+without conflicting with any system versions.</li>
+
+<li>Use the 
+<a
+href="https://launchpad.net/~dns/+archive/gnu?field.series_filter=";>GNU
+PPA</a> or <a
+href="https://launchpad.net/~dns/+archive/gnustep?field.series_filter=";>GNUstep
+PPA</a> (Personal Package Archive) on Trisquel or related distros to get
+the latest releases suitably packaged.</li>
+
 <li>Get the development sources for a package and build them, to help
 with development.  Many GNU packages keep their development sources at
 the GNU hosting site <a
@@ -200,7 +213,7 @@
 
 <p>Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2011/09/30 13:59:59 $
+$Date: 2011/10/21 23:54:03 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>