GNU Guile 2.0 Now Ready for Public Consumption
After three years, Guile 2.0, a GNU interpreter and compiler for the Scheme programming language, is now available.
GNU Guile 2.0 contains new compiler infrastructure and VM, new REPL, new debugger, support for hygienic macros, unicode support, partial R6RS compatibility, new dynamic foreign function interface, switch to the Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage collector, along with various new modules and dependencies.
GNU Guile is available for download from the GNU ftp site. The GNU Status report contains a summary of Guile 2.0 news. More information on what GNU Guile is, what it can do for users can be found in the GNU Guile Guide on the GNU Website.
Issue 222/2019
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News
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Black Hole Image Has an Open Source Connection
Two imaging libraries responsible for the image are fully open source.
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Linux Mint Founder Calls for Better Developer Support
Usually cheerful Clement ‘Clem’ Lefebvre says he "hasn't enjoyed" this development cycle.
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Software Freedom Conservancy Announces End to VMware Lawsuit
VMware agrees to remove the offending code in a future release.
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Chef Goes All Open Source
The company behind the popular DevOps automation tool is releasing those proprietary add-ons built around the open source core.
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SUSE Spins off from Parent Company
While IBM has acquired Red Hat, SUSE goes solo.
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Gnome 3.32 Released
New release of the Gnu desktop comes with many improvements.
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VMware Rolls Out Essential PKS
Virtualization vendor brings commercial support to upstream Kubernetes.
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Linux 5.0 Is Here
Linus says don't get excited, but the new release contains some significant updates.
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Kali Linux 2019.1 Released
The favorite Linux distro of Mr. Robot gets the first update of 2019.
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Linux Foundation Releases a New Draft of OpenChain Spec
OpenChain provides a standard for open source compliance throughout the software supply chain.