|
GNUWin II is a large collection of free software for Microsoft Windows created by the Linux User Group of the EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne). It is intended at easing the transition from proprietary applications and operation systems to free ones, by accustomating the user to widely used and cross-platform software. As of January 2005, project members are defining GNUWin III. Free software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation, can be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed. ...
Microsoft Windows is a range of operating environments for personal computers and servers. ...
A Linux User Group (LUG) is a private, generally non-profit or not-for-profit organization that meets (typically monthly) to provide support and/or arrange and host presentations for Linux users, particularly for inexperienced users. ...
The Monster Clothespin from Outer Space, and entrance of the EPFL The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne in Switzerland. ...
Image File history File links GNUWin logo File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Image File history File links GNUWin logo File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
History
GNUWin 1 The GNUWin project started in spring 2001 in the EPFL to respond to the need of a mean of distributing LaTeX packages for MS Windows. The logical expension was to include LaTeX documentation, customised hints in form of HTML pages, and other software packages such as gnuplot and Star Office (which was not exactly Free Software, a special license from Sun Microsystems was obtained for the occasion). GNUWin was only available in French, and was mainly distributed within the EPFL. The Monster Clothespin from Outer Space, and entrance of the EPFL The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne in Switzerland. ...
The extraction of Latex from a tree; Latex is used in Rubber production. ...
Gnuplot is a versatile program which can generate two- and three dimensional plots of functions and data. ...
Sun Microsystems (Sun Microsystems, Inc. ...
The Monster Clothespin from Outer Space, and entrance of the EPFL The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne in Switzerland. ...
GNUWin II Due to the success of GNUWin, it was decided to build a second edition the year after. The main feature was that the CD was multilingual: the three main official languages of Switzerland (German, French and Italian) were included, as well as English; software was updated (notably, StarOffice was replaced by the Free OpenOffice.org); and a server script was written to ease edition. The EPFL itself sponsored the printing of 1000 CDs. OpenOffice. ...
The Monster Clothespin from Outer Space, and entrance of the EPFL The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne in Switzerland. ...
Translations GNUWin II immediately met broad success outside the EPFL, due to its translation into German. Free software is more commonly accepted in Germany and German Switzerland, which led to GNUWin being advertised and mirrored on the Internet. It also made it into important Swiss German newspapers.
Quite quickly, a Spanish translation was set up by contributors outside of the original team. From there, contributors from around the world began to have greater importance. The second translation, quite interestingly, was Catalan (probably due to political and cultural tensions between Spanish Catalonians and the majority Castilians who speak "Spanish"). Numerous languages followed, notably Portuguese, Hindi and Swedish. Translations in Polish, Romanian, Greek and Turkish (another example of competing cultures where the presence of one drives the other) and Esperanto, etc. are all currently under development. GNUWin is striving to set up Asian translations, particularly in Chinese and Japanese. Catalan (Català , Valencià ) is a Romance language understood by as many as 12 million people in portions of Spain, France, Andorra and Italy, although the majority of active Catalan speakers are in Spain. ...
Other contributions include private companies offering CDs in various places (example [1]).
Programs and CD ISO images The GNUWin site offers download of executables or installers, as well as complete ISO images containing local copies of the internet site, though recently the internet site has grown bigger than a CD-ROM, thus the distribution now includes several CDs. DVD ISO images are under study. An ISO image is an informal term for a disk image of an ISO 9660 file system. ...
GNUWin II is originally hosted at the EPFL. It is mirrored by the Sunsite Switch mirror, and others (more information). Typical number of downloads is about 2000 a month for the Switch mirror alone.
Included programs
3D Games Celestia view of Saturn. ...
Tux Racer is a 3D computer game starring the Linux mascot, Tux the penguin. ...
A screenshot from version 2. ...
Computer Security The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) is a free software replacement for the PGP suite of cryptographic software, released under the GNU General Public License. ...
Nmap is free port scanning software distributed by Insecure. ...
Desktop Environments LiteStep is a Windows shell replacement under the GPL, for Windows 9x and up. ...
Development MinGW or Mingw32 (Minimalist GNU for Windows) is a software port of the GNU toolchain to the Win32 platform. ...
XEmacs running under Fedora Core 2 XEmacs is a text editor derived from GNU Emacs. ...
The word blender has a number of meanings: A blender is a common kitchen appliance for chopping or liquefying food. ...
Education It has been suggested that Tonic Sol-fa be merged into this article or section. ...
Tux Paint is an open source bitmap graphics editor (a program for creating and processing raster graphics) geared towards young children. ...
Engineering Dia is a general-purpose diagram creation software program, developed as part of the GNOME project. ...
QCad is a computer-aided design (CAD) software package for 2D design and drafting, released under the GPL. It is available for Linux, Mac OS X, Unix and Microsoft Windows. ...
Games Crack Attack! is a free OpenGL games based on Tetris Attack for the Super Nintendo. ...
Categories: Game stubs ...
GNU Chess is a computer program for playing chess, and is thus a computer chess program. ...
Graphics The GNU Image Manipulation Program or The GIMP is a bitmap graphics editor, a program for creating and processing raster graphics. ...
Sodipodi is an open source vector graphics editor released under the GNU GPL It is designed specifically around the SVG standard, using the file format (with some extensions to hold metadata) as its native storage format. ...
The word blender has a number of meanings: A blender is a common kitchen appliance for chopping or liquefying food. ...
The Utah Teapot, rendered in POV-Ray. ...
Dia is a general-purpose diagram creation software program, developed as part of the GNOME project. ...
Internet and communications Mozilla Firefox (originally known as Phoenix and briefly as Mozilla Firebird) is a free, cross-platform, graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and hundreds of volunteers . ...
Gaim 1. ...
Mozilla is a computer term that has had many different uses, though all of them have been related to Netscape Communications Corporation and its related application software. ...
PuTTY 0. ...
FileZilla is a free, open source FTP client for Windows. ...
Multimedia VideoLAN is a computer software project for multimedia video streaming of a wide variety of formats including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestrial television channels and live videos. ...
MPlayer is a free media player with support for more multimedia formats than any other media player. ...
XviD is an open source MPEG-4 video codec originally based on OpenDivX. XviD was started by a group of volunteer programmers after the OpenDivX source was closed in July 2001. ...
Zinf Zinf is a free audio player, released under the GNU General Public License. ...
Office OpenOffice. ...
XEmacs running under Fedora Core 2 XEmacs is a text editor derived from GNU Emacs. ...
AbiWord is a free word processing program under the GPL which runs on Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, ReactOS, SkyOS, and other operating systems. ...
Ghostscript is a suite of free software based on an interpreter of the Adobe PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages. ...
The extraction of Latex from a tree; Latex is used in Rubber production. ...
Operating systems This article refers to the bootloader, for other uses of the term see Grub. ...
...
DOSBox is an emulator which creates a DOS-like environment primarily intended for running older, MS-DOS-based PC computer games which may not run properly on newer PCs. ...
FreeDOS is an effort to create a free DOS operating system which is compatible with MS-DOS applications and drivers, yet have some features that are missing in MS-DOS. The software is currently in beta status, but the release of the first official version - FreeDOS 1. ...
Sciences and Math For other uses of Maxima, see Maxima (disambiguation). ...
In music, an octave (sometimes abbreviated 8ve or 8va) is the interval between one musical note and another with half or double the frequency. ...
Celestia view of Saturn. ...
The R programming language, sometimes described as GNU S, is a mathematical language and environment used for statistical analysis and display. ...
Scilab is a open-source numerical computational package developed by INRIA, France. ...
Servers and database Apache HTTP Server is an open source HTTP web server for Unix platforms (BSD, Linux, and UNIX systems), Microsoft Windows, and other platforms. ...
MySQL logo MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user, SQL (Structured Query Language) Database Management System (DBMS) with an estimated six million installations. ...
PHP is a popular open-source, reflective programming language used mainly for developing server-side applications and dynamic web content, and more recently, other software. ...
UNISON logo UNISON is the largest trade union in the United Kingdom, with over 1. ...
Utilities 7-Zip is an open source file archiver predominantly for the Microsoft Windows operating system. ...
Antiword is a software program that translates a document under a Microsoft Word format to plain text or PostScript format. ...
gzip is short for GNU zip, a GNU free software replacement for the Unix compress program. ...
Other Cygwin is a collection of free software tools originally developed by Cygnus Solutions to allow various versions of Microsoft Windows to act somewhat like a UNIX system. ...
External links | 
Feeds |
Contact