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GNU Alive 2.0.1 available

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Thien-Thi Nguyen

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Sep 12, 2012, 6:25:47 AM9/12/12
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release notes:

Doc improvements, primarily. NB: The download URLs are now direct to
ftp.gnu.org; links to a mirror site are on the homepage, as usual.

README excerpt:

GNU Alive is a keep-alive program for internet connections.
It repeatedly pings a series of user-specified hosts, thereby
encouraging (one hopes) the involved networks to not disappear.

NEWS excerpt:

- 2.0.1 | 2012-09-12
- bug report address updated: bug-alive (at gnu dot org)
- documentation improved
- new appendix: GNU Software
- index expanded
- maintainer tools upgrade
- gnulib-tool (GNU gnulib 2012-09-10 20:37:18) 0.0.7617-6418d
- automake (GNU automake) 1.12.3
- texinfo.tex now from Gnulib instead of Automake

tarball and detached signature:

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/alive/alive-2.0.1.tar.xz
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/alive/alive-2.0.1.tar.xz.sig

source code:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/alive.git

homepage:

http://www.gnu.org/software/alive/

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