< 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 site s.
See also Hurd .
2.
John Gilmore .
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