GNU
<body, project> /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.
2. <person>
John Gilmore.
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