List of GNU packages

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This is a list of the software packages developed for or maintained by the Free Software Foundation for GNU, a free UNIX-compatible operating system whose development started in 1984. Many of these software packages are today included as part of typical GNU/Linux distributions.

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Base system

GNU Bash - the GNU UNIX compatible shell
GNU coreutils - combining three earlier packages:
*GNU fileutils - contains UNIX compatible commands: chgrp, chown, chmod, cp, dd, df, dir, du, ln, ls, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, rm etc.
*GNU textutils - contains UNIX compatible commands: cat, cksum, head, tail, md5sum, nl, oc, pr, tsort, join, wc, tac, paste etc.
*GNU shellutils - contains UNIX compatible commands: basename, chroot, date, dirname, echo, env, groups, hostname, nice, nohup, printf, sleep etc.
GNU cpio - archiving program
GNU diffutils - contains utilies to compare files: diff, cmp, diff3, sdiff
GNU findutils - contains search utilities: find, locate, xargs
GNU finger - user information
GNU fontutils - font management utilites
GNU tar - tape archiving program (tar)
GNU grep - search for strings in files
GNU troff - document processing system (groff)
GNU zip - compression program (gzip)
GNU inetutils - contains UNIX compatible commands: ftp, telnet, rsh, rlogin, tftp
GNU readline - useful library for reading command lines
GNU Screen - a terminal multiplexer
GNU texinfo - documentation system for producing online and printed manuals
GNU time - program to determine the duration of execution of a particular command
GNU GRUB - GRand Unified Bootloader
GNU Hurd - a microkernel-based set of servers that perform the same function as a UNIX kernel

GNU build system - contains autoconf, autogen, and automake
GNU Binutils - contains the GNU assembler (as) and the GNU linker (ld)
GNU make - the Make program for GNU
GNU Compiler Collection - optimizing compiler for many programming languages, including C, C++, Fortran, Ada, and Java.
GNU Debugger - an advanced debugger (gdb)
GNU C Library (glibc) - POSIX compliant C library for GNU/Hurd and GNU/Linux
GNU pth - software threads for POSIX-compatible operating systems.
GNU libtool - Shared library support
GNU m4 - Macro processor
GNU Gettext - internationalization library
DotGNU - replacement for Microsoft .NET
GNU Classpath - libraries for Java
GNU bison - parser generator intended to replace yacc
GNU Guile - embeddable Scheme interpreter
BFD - object file library
GNU MDK - a development kit for programming in MIX
GNU indent - a program to indent C and C++ source code.
GNU FriBidi - a library that implements Unicode's Bidirectional Algorithm
MIT/GNU Scheme - interpreter, compiler and library for the Scheme programming language developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
SmartEiffel - The GNU Eiffel compiler

GIMP - the GNU Image Manipulation Program is a bitmap image editor that rivals Photoshop
GTK+ - the GIMP Toolkit, contains the GTK+, GDK, and GLib set of libraries (used by the GIMP and GNOME)
GNOME - the GNU Network Object Model Environment, the official GNU Desktop
GNUstep - implementation of the OpenStep libraries and development tools for graphical applications

GNU Alexandria - package of the GNU system that makes use of GNU Bayonne to provide a means to deliver access to electronic content and services for the blind over the public telephone network from a GNU/Linux server
GNU Anubis - outgoing mail processor that sits between the MUA (Mail User Agent) and the MTA (Mail Transport Agent)
GNU Aspell - spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell
GNU Accounting Utils - set of utilities providing statistics on users and processes for GNU/Linux (last, ac, accton, lastcomm, sa, dump-utmp, dump-acct)
GNU Bayonne - Multi-line telephony services
GNU Emacs - the Emacs editor of the GNU operating system
GNU Parted - Partitioning program
GNU Privacy Guard - PGP encryption replacement
GNU wget - advanced file retrieval from networks and the Internet
GNUnet - decentralized, peer-to-peer communication network designed to be resistant to censorship
GNU Robots - small but addictive game for computer programmers
GnuTLS - TLS replacement protocol

GNU Miscfiles - several data files including standard airport, country, and language codes
GNU Chess
GNU Go
GnowSys - a kernel for semantic computing (a distributed agent oriented knowledge base.)
Gnucap - the GNU Circuit Analysis Package

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