Nowadays te free SOftware movement goes far deyond @eveloping tne GNU system
see Ine Flee Sollwale
maintainers: aspell; bison; gnuae, gnubik;
Foundation's web site for more about what we do, and
list of ways YOU can help:
metaexchange, powerguru; xboard.
See the package web pages for more information
More about GNU
GNU is a Unix-like operating system. That means it is
collection of many programs: applications, libraries,
Recent GNU releases
developer tools_
even games_
The
development of GNU, started in January 1984, is known as the GNU Project:
Short
descriptions for all GNU packages
of the programs in GNU are released under the auspices of the GNU Project; those we call GNU
packages
Today's random package._
The name "GNU" is
recursive acronym for "GNUs Not Unix.
"GNU" is pronounced g'noo; as one
GNUnited Nations
like saying "grew" but replacing the
with n.
GNUnited Nations is
build system for translating
The program in a Unix-like system that allocates machine resources and talks to the hardware is called the
the web site at WWWgnu.Org: It works via template
"kernel". GNU is typically used with a kernel called Linux. This combination is the GNUILinux operating
files,
which allow changes to be merged into
system_
GNUILinux is used by millions, though many call
"Linux" by mistake:
individual translations of
page, from which the
final HTML is generated
In effect; this helps to
GNUs own kernel, The Hurd; was started in 1990 (before Linux was started): Volunteers continue developing
keep all translations of
page up-to-date. (doc)
the Hurd because it is an interesting technical project:
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