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GNU's FlashesThe first Libre Software Meeting will take place from 5th to 9th July 2000 at Bordeaux, France. This event is sponsored by the FSF, and is dedicated to providing a place to meet, talk, and hack for developers working on Free Software projects. A First Debian Conference is scheduled during the Libre Software Meeting. Here is a list of the latest releases of software in the GNU Project. We update this list daily. For other news, see What's new.
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Updated: 30 May 2000 prashant