GNU

GNU is a project to create a GPL-licensed UNIX that was started by Richard Stallman?, the creator of EMACS. The GNU project is now overseen by the Free Software Foundation?, which Richard Stallman? founded.

GNU was the first recursive acronym, and it stands for GNU's Not Unix. This, no doubt, is because of Richard Stallman?'s grounding in Lisp.

The GNU Project has created a great many software packages, including gcc, sed, glibc, make, awk, find, file, and a good deal more besides. These packages make up a major portion of every Linux distribution.

The development of the GNU operating system, the Hurd, continues.


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