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GNU
GNU (pronounced [/gnu/] ([Media helphelp]·[info])) is a free operating system consisting of a kernel, libraries, system utilities, compilers, and end-user applications. Its name is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix", which was chosen because its design is Unix..

GNU-Darwin
Hexley and Heckert are GNU-Darwin mascots GNU-Darwin is a project to package applications for the Mac OS X and Darwin operating systems. They also distribute versions of the Darwin operating system (produced by Apple) and the OpenDarwin operating system which is based on Darwin, although the..

Gnu-india
Gnu-India Overview [It] was formed as loose volunteer based effort revolving around organizing Free Software resources and popularizing Free Software especially in collages and schools in and around Delhi. Projects Major stress was on developing skills in GNU/Hurd. Some of the people in..

Gnu/communism
GNU/communism is a term used to mock open source activist, and tag them as communists. Communist is used due to the resemblance between open source's philosophy of sharing the code among all humanity and communism's idea to share resources among all people. See also Richard Stallman External link &..

GNU/DOS
GNU/DOS is a distribution of FreeDOS which includes the following: Several core FreeDOS packagesThe DJGPP development environment with many GNU programsThe Arachne Web browser, e-mail client, and file managerThe OpenGEM graphical user interface with many GEM programsThe Vim editor for software devel..

GNU/Linux naming controversy
[Featured articles ] FSF artwork of the gnu (GNU mascot) and the penguin Tux (Linux kernel mascot) representing their viewpoint on "GNU/Linux". The GNU General Public License (GPL), which is used by Linux as well as most GNU software, armors both characters. GN..

GNU/NetBSD
GNU/NetBSD is a term for an Unix-like operating system using the NetBSD kernel but GNU userland software, like Debian GNU/NetBSD, a Debian version currently available for IA-32 and Alpha architectures. See also ..

Gnuboy
The correct title of this } is }}}. The initial letter is capitalized due to [Naming conventions #Lower case first lettertechnical restrictions]. gnuboy (all lowercase, but sometimes unofficially spelt GNU Boy) is a Free Software emulator released under the terms of the GNU General Public..

GNUBrain
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GnuCash
GnuCash is a Free Software double-entry book-keeping personal finance system. It was initially aimed at developing capabilities similar to Intuit's Quicken application, but also has features for small business accounting. Recent development has been focused on adapting to modern desktop support-l..

GnucDNA
GnucDNA is a software library for building peer-to-peer applications. It provides developers with a common layer to create their own Gnutella and/or Gnutella2 client or network. As a separate component, GnucDNA can be updated independently of the client, passing down improvements to the applications..

Gnucleus
Gnucleus is a popular Gnutella and Gnutella2 servent for Windows, released under the GPL license. The primary goals of the project are security and stability. The client is designed to be easy to use without reducing the number of options available. Gnucleus implements a number of features includ..

Gnuff
Gnuff is a Danish comic book series about an anthropomorphic dragon who lives in a city with his wife Gnellie and his son Gnicky. They keep their wings hidden (they are compact enough to be concealed under their clothing) and generally try to live quietly, being considered 'outsiders' in a Carl Bark..

GnuGK
GNU Gatekeeper (or GnuGk) is a feature-rich H.323 Gatekeeper based on the Open H.323 stack. The gatekeeper and stack are fundamental components a free IP telephony system. Features GnuGk can optionally proxy calls (signalling and media) and has various call routing methods. Multiple authentication ..

GnuLinEx
The correct title of this } is }}}. The initial letter is capitalized due to [Naming conventions #Lower case first lettertechnical restrictions]. gnuLinEx, or LinEx, is a Linux distribution based on Debian, with GNOME as desktop. gnuLinEx is an initiative of the regional government of E..

GNUmed
--> GNUmed is a free software/open source medical practice management software for Unix-like systems (BSD, Linux, and UNIX systems), Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and other platforms. The GNUmed community is busy building a medical software package that will be open source, free, secure, respectful..

Gnumeric
Gnumeric is a free spreadsheet program that is part of the GNOME desktop. It is intended to be a free replacement for proprietary spreadsheet programs such as Microsoft Excel, which it broadly and openly emulates. Gnumeric was created and developed by Miguel de Icaza, but he has since moved on to..

GNUmp3d
GNUMP3d is a streaming server for MP3s, OGG vorbis files, movies and other media formats. According to its website it is designed to be: Small, stable, portable, self-contained, and secure.Simple to install, configure, and use.Portable across different varieties of Unix, the GNU Operating System, a..

GNUnet
GNUnet is a free software framework for decentralized, peer-to-peer networking. The framework offers link encryption, peer discovery and resource allocation. GNUnet was first published November 6, 2001. The primary codebase is written in C, but with Freeway there is an effort to produce a compati..

GNUpedia
GNUPedia (later renamed GNE) was a project to create a free content encyclopedia (licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License) under the auspices of the Free Software Foundation that has been discontinued. The project was initially proposed by Richard Stallman in 1999 and officially started in..

Gnuplot
The correct title of this } is }}}. The initial letter is capitalized due to [Naming conventions #Lower case first lettertechnical restrictions]. gnuplot is a versatile command-line program that can generate two- and three-dimensional plots of functions and data. The program runs on all ..

Gnuplotfortran
Gnuplotfortran is a library to enable direct control of a Gnuplot session from Fortran 95 programs. Gnuplotfortran is a freely available (LGPL) library. Currently, it is known to work on any POSIX system. It depends on another LGPL'ed library - [Fortranposix]. Reference [Gnuplotfor..

GNUpod
GNUpod is a collection of Perl scripts that allows you to use your iPod with Linux and many other operating systems (eg, NetBSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X) with a working copy of Perl 5.6 or higher. The main advantage to using GNUpod is that, unlike other iPod-management utilities, it does not require X..

Gnuppix
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Gnus
For gnus (the animals), see wildebeest. Gnus (pronounced /gnuz/) is a message reader running under GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It supports reading and composing both news and e-mail. In addition, it is able to use a number of web-based sources as inputs for its groups. Gnus users find it pleasing to hav..

GNUstep
GNUstep is a free software implementation of NeXT's OpenStep Objective-C libraries (called frameworks), widget toolkit, and application development tools not only for Unix-like operating systems, but also for Microsoft Windows. It is part of the GNU project. GNUstep features a cross-platform, obj..

GNUstep Renaissance
GNUstep Renaissance is a development framework that reads XML descriptions of graphical user interfaces from an application bundle and converts them into native widgets and connections at runtime under either GNUstep or Mac OS X. GNUstep Renaissance was written by Nicola Pero as an alternative to t..

Gnutella
Gnutella (pronounced /nʌˈtɛlə/ or /gnʌˈtɛlə/) is a file sharing network used primarily to exchange files. As of December 2005, Gnutella is the third-most-popular file sharing network in the Internet, following eDonkey 2000 and FastTrack. While figures vary from hour to hour and day to day, ..

Gnutella2
The Gnutella2 peer-to-peer protocol is a reworking of the Gnutella protocol, written mainly by Michael Stokes. It drops all of the old Gnutella protocol except for the connection handshake and adopts an entirely new search algorithm. Gnutella2 is often abbreviated as G2. Contents 1 History2&..

Gnutella crawler
A Gnutella crawler is a software program used to gather statistic information on the Gnutella file sharing network. Early crawlers used the Ping/Pong messages to discover hosts connected to the network. Although this method is still usable, it is too slow to capture enough data for a topological ov..

GnuTLS
GnuTLS, the GNU Transport Layer Security Library, is a free software implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols. Its purpose is to offer an application programming interface (API) for applications to enable secure communication protocols over their network transport layer. GnuTLS has the followi..

GnuWin32
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GNUWin II
GNUWin II is a large collection of free software for Microsoft Windows created by the Linux User Group of the EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne). It is intended at easing the transition from proprietary applications and operation systems to free ones, by accustomating the user to wid..

GNU Anubis
GNU Anubis is an outgoing mail processor. It goes between the Mail User Agent (MUA) and the Mail transport agent (MTA), and can perform various sorts of processing and conversion on the outgoing mail in accord with the sender's specified rules, based on a highly configurable regular expressions syst..

GNU arch
In computing, GNU arch is a software revision control system that is part of the GNU Project and licensed under the GNU General Public License. It is used to keep track of the changes made to a source tree and to help programmers combine and otherwise manipulate changes made by multiple people or a..

GNU Aspell
GNU Aspell, usually called just Aspell, is a free and open source spell checker designed to replace Ispell. It is the standard spelling checker software for the GNU software system. It also compiles for other Unix-like operating systems and Microsoft Windows. The main program is licensed under the G..

GNU Assembler
Gas, commanded as as when typed from the shell, is the GNU assembler. It is the default GNU Compiler Collection back-end and is used to compile Linux and other operating systems such as the GNU operating system. It is a part of the GNU Binutils package. Gas runs and assembles on and for a number ..

GNU Bayonne
GNU Bayonne is a free telecommunications application server written primarily by David Sugar for the GNU project. It was started in 1998 under the project name "Adjunct Communications Server". It supports a wide range of computer telephony interface hardware and voice over IP implementations. Rath..

GNU Binary Utilities
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GNU bison
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GNU build system
The GNU build system, also known as Autotools, is a suite of tools produced by the GNU project that assist in making packages portable to many UNIX-like systems. It is part of GNU toolchain. It comprises GNU AutoconfGNU AutomakeGNU Libtool Other related tools include GNU makeGNU gettextpkg-configG..

GNU Chess
GNU Chess is a computer program for playing chess. GNU Chess is one of the oldest computer chess programs for Unix-based computers and has been ported to several other platforms. The GNU Chess project is one of the older parts of the GNU package of software, having started in 1984. The first version..

GNU Classpath
GNU Classpath is a project aiming to create a free implementation of the standard class library for the Java programming language. It is a part of the Free Software Foundation's GNU project. Despite the massive size of the library to be created, the majority of the task is already done, including ..

GNU Coding Standards
= GIZMO_SNUFKIN_THRESHOLD); store_size (wilma); goto check; } return 0; } The consistent treatment of blocks as statements (for the purpose of indentation) is a very distinctive feature of the GNU C code formatting style; as is the mantadory space before parentheses. All code formatted i..

GNU Common Lisp
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GNU Compiler Collection
The GNU Compiler Collection (usually shortened to GCC) is a set of programming language compilers produced by the GNU Project. It is free software distributed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) under the GNU GPL and GNU LGPL, and is a key component of the GNU toolchain. It is the standard compi..

GNU Compiler for Java
The GNU Compiler for Java (GCJ) is a free software compiler for the Java programming language that is part of the GNU Compiler Collection. It can compile Java source code to either Java Virtual Machine bytecode, or directly to machine code for any of a number of CPU architectures. It can also compil..

GNU C Library
Glibc is the GNU project's C standard library. It is free software and is available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. The lead contributor and maintainer is Ulrich Drepper. In addition to providing the functionality required by Unix98, Single UNIX Specification, POSIX (1c, 1d, and 1j) ..

GNU data language
The GDL - GNU Data Language is a free IDL™ (Interactive Data Language) compatible incremental compiler. It runs existing IDL™ programs. IDL™ is a registered trademark of Research Systems Inc. See also ..

GNU Debugger
The GNU Debugger, usually called just GDB, is the standard debugger for the GNU software system. It is a portable debugger that runs on many Unix-like systems and works for many programming languages, including C, C++, and FORTRAN. Contents 1 History2 Technical details2.1 Features..

GNU Emacs
Emacs EmacsGNU EmacsXEmacsEmacs LispNotable smaller Emacses* MicroEMACS* mg* Freemacs* Zile (editor) [ edit ] GNU Emacs is one of the two most popular versions of the Emacs text editor. The GNU Emacs manual describes it as "the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-..

GNU Enterprise
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GNU Free Documentation License
"GFDL" redirects here. For , see . The GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or simply GFDL) is a copyleft license for free content, designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for the GNU project. It is the counterpart to the GNU GPL that gives readers the same rights to copy, redistribute ..

GNU General Public License
"GPL" redirects here. For , see . The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. The latest version of the license, version 2, was released in 1991. The GNU Lesser General Public License (..

GNU Go
Logo by Ebba Berggren GNU Go is a free software program by the Free Software Foundation that plays Go. Its source code is quite portable, and can be easily compiled for Linux, as well as other Unix-like systems, Windows and Mac OS X; ports exist for other platforms. The program plays Go again..

GNU GRUB
GRUB redirects here. For other uses, see Grub. GNU GRUB ("GRUB" for short) is a multiboot boot-loader software package from the GNU project. GRUB can also be used to select among the kernel images available on a particular operating system's partitions, as well as to pass boot-time parameters to ..

GNU Guile
The GNU Guile logo GNU Guile is an interpreter for Scheme, a version of Lisp, packaged as a library so that it can be embedded in other programs. Guile is the "official" extension language of the GNU project although it has been used only for a few major projects so far. It originated out of..

GNU Hurd
GNU Hurd logo "Hurd" redirects here. For , see . The GNU Hurd is a computer operating system kernel. It consists of a set of servers (or daemons, in Unix-speak) that work on top of either the GNU Mach microkernel or the L4 microkernel; together, they form the kernel of the GNU operating system..

GNU Interpreter for Java
The GNU Interpreter for Java (GIJ) is a Java bytecode interpreter for the Java programming language. It is part of the free software GNU Compiler for Java (GCJ). GCJ is the compiler counterpart to GIJ. See also ..

GNU Lesser General Public License
The GNU Lesser General Public License (formerly the GNU Library General Public License) is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation. It was designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General Public License and simple permissive licenses such as the BSD lice..

GNU LilyPond
GNU LilyPond is a free software program for engraving sheet music for all common operating systems. It uses a simple text notation for music, which is then compiled into PDF (via PostScript), SVG or other formats. LilyPond can also automatically generate MIDI files from music specified in the Lil..

GNU Linear Programming Kit
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GNU locate
Unix utility to find files on filesystems. Needs prebuild database (made by updatedb) with list of files. Incremental encoding is used to keep database small. It is very fast way of finding files, much more faster than just 'find'. It is a part of [GNU Findutils]. There is secure version..

GNU m4
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GNU Mach
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GNU Mailman
GNU Mailman is a GNU package for managing electronic mailing lists. It is free software/open source software, distributed freely under the GNU General Public License. Similar software programs include Majordomo and ezmlm; Mailman's chief distinction is its easy-to-use Web interface for list admini..

GNU Manifesto
The GNU Manifesto was written by Richard Stallman and published in March 1985 in Dr. Dobb's Journal of Software Tools 10(3) as an explanation and definition of the goals of the GNU Project, and to call for participation and support. It is regarded by many in the free software movement as a fundamen..

GNU MDK
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GNU Multi-Precision Library
The GNU Multiple-Precision Library, also known as GMP, is a free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers. There is no practical limit to the precision except the ones implied by the available memory in the machine GMP r..

GNU Octave
For other uses of the word octave see Octave (disambiguation) Octave is a free computer program for performing numerical computations, which is mostly compatible with MATLAB. It is part of the GNU project. Note that Octave is not a computer algebra system. Octave is rather a tool for scientific c..

GNU Oleo
GNU Oleo is a lightweight spreadsheet software package. Oleo was originally designed as a text-based spreadsheet (using the curses library). In contrast to the GNU Gnumeric spreadsheet (a part of the GNOME desktop system), Oleo is much older and has fewer capabilities. It is also not as active as..

GNU Parted
GNU Parted is a program for creating, destroying, resizing, checking, and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising hard disk usage, copying data between hard disks, and disk imaging. Currently, Parted runs only unde..

GNU Pascal
GNU Pascal (GPC) is a Pascal compiler comprised of a frontend to GCC, similar to the way Fortran and other languages were added to GCC. GNU Pascal is ISO 7185 compatible, and it implements "most" of the ISO 10206 Extended Pascal standard (according to the manual). The major advantage of piggybackin..

GNU Privacy Guard
The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) is a free software replacement for the PGP suite of cryptographic software, released under the GNU General Public License. It is a part of the Free Software Foundation's GNU software project, and has received major funding from the German Government. GnuPG is ..

GNU Project
The GNU Project was announced in 1983 by Richard Stallman. It initiated the GNU operating system, software development for which began in January 1984. The founding goal of the project was, in the words of its initial announcement, to develop "a sufficient body of free software [...] t..

GNU Prolog
GNU Prolog (also called gprolog) is an interactive debugging environment and a compiler for Prolog available for Unix and Windows. It also supports some extensions to Prolog including constraint programming over a finite domain, parsing using definite clause grammars, and an operating system interfa..

GNU Radio
GNU Radio is a free software toolkit for learning about, building, and deploying Software Defined Radios. Started in 1998, GNU Radio is now an official GNU project. Philanthropist John Gilmore initiated and has sustained GNU Radio with the funding of $320,000 (US) to Eric Blossom for code creation..

GNU readline
GNU readline is a software library created and maintained by the GNU project. It is licensed under the GPL. It provides line-editing capabilities. The current version is 5.1. Newer features include multibyte (Unicode) character support. For instance, in a readline-enabled application, pressing C-b ..

GNU Robots
GNU Robots is a computer game for programmers. The goal is to guide a robot simulation around a maze, consuming food, avoiding baddies, and collecting as many prizes as possible in the process. However, the player cannot control the robot once the game begins; the robot acts according to a Scheme ..

GNU Savannah
GNU Savannah is a project of the Free Software Foundation, which serves as a collaborative software development management system for Free Software projects. Savannah currently offers CVS, GNU arch, mailing list, web hosting, file hosting, and bug tracking services. Savannah runs Savane, which is..

GNU Scientific Library
GSL redirects here. For General Sales List items, see Over-the-counter substance. For the record label, see Gold Standard Laboratories. Code using the library and the computed results In computing, GNU Scientific Library (or GSL) is a software library written in the C programming language for ..

GNU Screen
GNU Screen is a free terminal multiplexer developed by the GNU Project. It allows a user to access multiple separate terminal sessions inside a single terminal window or remote terminal session. It is useful for dealing with multiple programs from the command line, and for separating programs fr..

GNU Sharutils
GNU Sharutils is a set of utilities to handle shell archives. The GNU shar utility produces a single file out of many files and prepares them for transmission by electronic mail services, for example by converting binary data files into plain ASCII text. A shell archive is a collection of files that..

GNU Shogi
GNU Shogi is a free software program by the Free Software Foundation that plays Shogi. Although the program is ASCII based, most often it is used in conjunction with XShogi, much as XBoard is used for GNU_Chess. Source code is available. The most recent version is Version 1.3 (stable) released on 2..

GNU Solfege
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GNU TeXmacs
TEXMACS on Fedora Core 2 GNU TEXMACS (alternatively, TeXmacs) is a free scientific word processor component of the GNU project, which was inspired by both TeX and GNU Emacs. It is written and maintained by Joris van der Hoeven. The program allows you to write structured documents via a user-f..

GNU toolchain
The GNU toolchain is a blanket term given to the programming tools produced by the GNU project. These projects form an integrated system that is used for programming both applications and operating systems. It is a vital component in Linux kernel development, BSD development and a standard tool wh..

GNU Typist
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GNU VCDImager
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Gnu yUnix
GNU yUnix GNU yUnix is small 32 MB Operating System Based on Linux Kernel and GNU Utilities . ..

GNU Zebra
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