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
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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>
