karl@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (07/16/90)
Archive-name: french-gnu-tapes/13-Jul-90 Original-posting-by: karl@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Original-subject: GNU in France Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) [ Mail sent to tower@ai.mit.edu ] You maybe want to know that there exists an non-profit organization in France who distribute GNU stuff. It is called GNA. It sells only one tape and it costs 1200 F (i.e. ~ $200). The association then send back 500 F (i.e. ~ $80) to the FSF. This distribution activity was previously done by Axis Design (April 89 - June 90). Axis Design sold about 50 tapes and send back more than 20 000 F (i.e. ~ $3300) to the FSF. This is not much but I hope it helped a little. If you can't afford to buy a tape, you can still come in the association's office with your own cartridge, and make the copy yourself. An upgrade mechanism is also available. You can either send a tape with stamps or come to the association's office. The tape contains the following stuff : compress,dist,gdb,gcc,g++,libg++,gas,bison,flex, binutils,make,make-doc,rcs,sed,diff,grep,gawk,tar, gnuplot,gperf,texi2roff,bash,indent,smalltalk,gdbm, ghostscript,scheme,gnuchess,nethack,gnugo I'm going to add cpio, find and groff next week. If you are interested, please write to loic@adesign.uucp