GNU
/g*noo/ 1. A recursive acronym: "GNU's Not Unix!". The Free Software Foundation's project to provide a freely distributable replacement for Unix. The GNU Manifesto was published in the March 1985 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal but the GNU project started a year and a half earlier when Richard Stallman was trying to get funding to work on his freely distributable editor, Emacs.
Emacs and the GNU C compiler, gcc, two tools designed for this project, have become very popular. GNU software is available from many GNU archive sites. See also Hurd.<person>
2. John Gilmore.
[Jargon File]Last updated: 1997-04-12
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GNOME ♦ Gnome Computers ♦ GNU ♦ GNU archive site ♦ GNU assembler ♦ GNU awk
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