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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(1997-04-12)
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