Eleven new GNU releases in the last month (as of April 28, 2024):
- ed-1.20.2: Ed is a line-orientedtext editor: rather than offering an overview of a document,ed performs editing one line at a time. It can be executed bothinteractively and via shell scripts. Its method of command inputallows complex tasks to be performed in an automated way.GNU ed offers several extensions over the standard utility.
- g-golf-0.8.0-rc-3: G-Golf(Gnome: (Guile Object Library for)) is a library for developingmodern applications in Guile Scheme. It comprises a direct bindingto the GObject Introspection API and higher-level functionality forimporting Gnome libraries and making GObject classes (and methods)available in Guile's object-oriented programming system, GOOPS.
- gnubg-1.08.003: The GNUbackgammon application can be used for playing, analyzing andteaching the game. It has an advanced evaluation engine based onartificial neural networks suitable for both beginners and advancedplayers. In addition to a command-line interface, it also featuresan attractive, 3D representation of the playing board.
- ncurses-6.5: GNU Ncurses isa library which provides capabilities to write text to a terminal ina terminal-independent manner. It supports pads and color as wellas multiple highlights and forms characters. It is typically usedto implement user interfaces for command-line applications. Theaccompanying ncursesw library provides wide character support.
- parallel-20240422: GNUParallel is a tool for executing shell jobs in parallel using oneor more computers. Jobs can consist of single commands or ofscripts and they are executed on lists of files, hosts, users orother items.
- poke-4.0: GNU poke is aninteractive, extensible editor for binary data. Not limited toediting basic entities such as bits and bytes, it provides afull-fledged procedural, interactive programming language designedto describe data structures and to operate on them.
- r-4.4.0: R is a language andenvironment for statistical computing and graphics. It providesa variety of statistical techniques, such as linear and nonlinearmodeling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis,classification and clustering. It also provides robust supportfor producing publication-quality data plots. A large amount of3rd-party packages are available, greatly increasing its breadthand scope.
- shepherd-0.10.4: The GNUShepherd is a daemon-managing daemon, meaning that it supervises theexecution of system services, replacing similar functionality foundin typical init systems. It provides dependency-handling through aconvenient interface and is based on GNU Guile.
- stow-2.4.0: GNU Stow is asymlink manager. It generates symlinks to directories of data andmakes them appear to be merged into the same directory. It istypically used for managing software packages installed from source,by letting you install them apart in distinct directories and thencreate symlinks to the files in a common directory such as`/usr/local'.
- taler-0.10.1: Taler providesa payment system that makes privacy-friendly online transactionsfast and easy.
- tramp-2.6.3: TRAMP is a GNUEmacs package that allows you to access files on remote machines asthough they were local files. This includes editing files,performing version control tasks and modifying directory contentswith `dired'. Access is performed via ssh, rsh, rlogin, telnet orother similar methods.
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