

The goal was to bring a completely free software operating system into existence. Software development began on January 5, 1984, when Stallman quit his job at the Lab so that they could not claim ownership or interfere with distributing GNU components as free software. It was called the GNU Project, and was publicly announced on September 27, 1983, on the net.unix-wizards and net.usoft newsgroups by Stallman. : 45:30 History ĭevelopment of the GNU operating system was initiated by Richard Stallman while he worked at MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Stallman chose the name by using various plays on words, including the song The Gnu. GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix!", chosen because GNU's design is Unix-like, but differs from Unix by being free software and containing no Unix code. 5 Copyright, GNU licenses, and stewardship.4.1 With kernels maintained by GNU and FSF.
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Most of GNU is licensed under the GNU Project's own General Public License ( GPL). The use of the completed GNU tools led to the family of operating systems popularly known as Linux. GNU ( / ɡ n uː/ ( listen)) is an extensive collection of free software (383 packages as of January 2022 ), which can be used as an operating system or can be used in parts with other operating systems. GNU GPL, GNU LGPL, GNU AGPL, GNU FDL, GNU FSDG Microkernel ( GNU Hurd) or Monolithic kernel (GNU Linux-libre, fork of Linux) IA-32 (with Hurd kernel only) and Alpha, ARC, ARM, AVR32, Blackfin, C6x, ETRAX CRIS, FR-V, H8/300, Hexagon, Itanium, M32R, m68k, META, MicroBlaze, MIPS, MN103, OpenRISC, PA-RISC, PowerPC, s390, S+core, SuperH, SPARC, TILE64, Unicore32, x86, Xtensa (with Linux-libre kernel only) Personal computers, mobile devices, embedded devices, servers, mainframes, supercomputers

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