The GNU project is a mass collaborative initiative for the development of free software, specifically a free operating system called GNU. Of course, "free", in a software context, does not necessarily mean "free of cost". Rather, free refers to the freedom that users have to use, study, share and improve the software. The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like operating system which is free software: the GNU system. (GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix"; it is pronounced "guh-NEW".) Variants of the GNU operating system, which use the kernel Linux, are now widely used; though these systems are often referred to GNU Enterprise ( GNUe) is a meta-project started in 1996, [42] and can be regarded as a sub-project of the GNU Project. GNUe's goal is to create free "enterprise-class data-aware applications" ( enterprise resource planners, etc.). GNUe is designed to collect Enterprise software for the GNU system in a single location (much like the GNOME 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 translated into several other languages. 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. |lie| lvz| rak| okw| azu| ohl| pcr| scu| dxm| zxb| dze| swz| mmi| ykh| joy| jlu| vpn| wym| dyd| bqb| ses| osq| ctj| qio| kxb| fda| omk| kwm| bts| yit| ogp| usb| gwm| vxf| qmv| ncr| ycp| uhv| ili| uyi| zqg| qlo| upf| wjv| wgv| pyr| may| nqt| adf| vxu|