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# GNU
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GNU (recursive acronym for *GNU is not Unix*; also ganoo) is a project meant to create a
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[libre](free_software.md), [Unix](unix.md)-like operating system which was started by Richard Stallman in 1983.
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By the end of the decade of 1980, the GNU implementations of Unix tools were mostly complete, the only
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remaining part was the kernel. Then work on a free Unix-like kernel began, Hurd, which however was outpaced
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by [Linux](linux.md) in terms of development activity.
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GNU software are called "packages", all under the GPL license.
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## Some notable GNU packages
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- [Hurd](hurd.md), along with the GNU Mach [microkernel](microkernel.md)
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- GCC (GNU Compiler Collection, originally GNU C Compiler)
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- GDB (GNU Debugger)
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- coreutils
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- binutils
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- Bison (GNU's implementation of the Yacc parser generator)
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- Guile [Scheme](scheme.md)
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- MIT/GNU Scheme
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- GNU [Smalltalk](smalltalk.md)
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- [Emacs](emacs.md)
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- GNU [ed](ed.md)
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- GRUB (Grand Unified [Bootloader](bootloader.md))
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- [ncurses](ncurses.md)
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- GNU Guix
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- GNU Shepherd
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- GNU IceCat, fork of [Mozilla](mozilla.md) Firefox
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- ...
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