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The GNU Operating System, Free Software, Free Society
Founded in 1983, GNU (pronounced guh-noo, like "canoe") is an organization which develops a free software operating system, the GNU system. This system is qualified as Unix-like in that it works much the way that Unix does, but is built as free software and does not contain any Unix code. (Giving rise to the recursive acronym for GNU as meaning "GNU's Not Unix").
The GNU operating system is developed under the "GNU Project," with programs released by the project being called GNU packages of GNU programs. The basic components of the GNU operating system include the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), the GNU Binary Utilities (binutils), the GNU C library (glibc) and the GNU Core Utilities (coreutils). A variant of the GNU kernal, Linux is now widely used by a variety of operating systems, including the Macintosh Operating System, known as "OS X".
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- Boston MA 02111 US
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- Free Software Foundation
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- +1 617 542 5942
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