GNU

This article is on The GNU Project. For the system, see GNU/Linux

The GNU Project is a project dedicated to making an entire, fully functional operating system composed entirely of free software. While GNU is UNIX-like, it's not UNIX. In fact, GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's not UNIX". The common distribution of their operating system is with use of the Linux kernel, thus making the system GNU/Linux. However, The GNU Project has been developing its own kernel, GNU Hurd, since the late 1980's.

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