2025年1月26日 · GNU is an operating system that is free software—that is, it respects users' freedom. The GNU operating system consists of GNU packages (programs specifically released by the GNU Project) as well as free software released by third parties. The development of GNU made it possible to use a computer without software that would trample your freedom.

2025年1月20日 · The GNU Project responded in two ways: by asking individual free software projects to support the free X Toolkit widgets as well as Motif, and by asking for someone to write a free replacement for Motif. The job took many years; LessTif, developed by the Hungry Programmers, became powerful enough to support most Motif applications only in 1997. ...

2025年1月20日 · The GNU operating system is a complete free software system, upward-compatible with Unix. GNU stands for “GNU's Not Unix.” It is pronounced as one syllable with a hard g. Richard Stallman made the Initial Announcement of the GNU Project in September 1983. A longer version called the GNU Manifesto was published in March 1985. It has been …

2021年10月24日 · The primary and continuing goal of GNU is to offer a Unix-compatible system that would be 100% free software. Not 95% free, not 99.5%, but 100%. The name of the system, GNU, is a recursive acronym meaning GNU's Not Unix—a way of paying tribute to the technical ideas of Unix, while at the same time saying that GNU is something different.

2023年11月30日 · GNU History *[1996] Overview of the GNU System *[1998] The GNU Project (by Richard Stallman) — A more detailed history of GNU. *[1985] The GNU Manifesto *[1984] First Hackers Conference *[1983] Initial Announcement of the GNU Project [2003] My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs (by Richard Stallman) [1999] 15 Years of …

2024年7月31日 · GNU software is available by several different methods: Download a wholly free GNU/Linux distribution.; Get a copy from a friend. Buy a computer with a wholly free GNU/Linux system preinstalled from one of the companies that offers this.; Download individual packages from the web or via FTP: we provide source code for all GNU software as free software, and …

2021年11月2日 · The GNU Project is part of the Free Software Movement, a campaign for freedom for users of software. It is a mistake to associate GNU with the term “open source”—that term was coined in 1998 by people who disagree with …

2025年1月2日 · The GNU Project was named after the GNU operating system—it's the project to develop the GNU system. (See the 1983 initial announcement.) We developed programs such as GCC, GNU Emacs, GAS, GLIBC, BASH, etc., because we needed them for the GNU operating system. GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection is the compiler that we wrote for the GNU ...

2024年4月25日 · It was the first fully free GNU/Linux system recognized by the GNU Project. Small GNU/Linux distros. Below is a list of small system distributions. These distributions are meant for devices with limited resources, like a wireless router for example. A free small system distribution is not self-hosting, but it must be developable and buildable ...

2022年5月15日 · The GNU Project develops and maintains the GNU operating system. Through this work, and other related activities, the GNU Project advocates and promotes software freedom, the core philosophy of the free software movement. An operating system consists of many software components that together make a computer do useful jobs. It includes code for ...