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)