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About the GNU Operating System

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The name “GNU” is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not +Unix!”; it is pronounced as +one syllable with a hard g.

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[Other historical and general articles about +GNU.]

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GNU was launched by Richard Stallman (rms) in 1983, as an +operating system which would be put together by people working +together for the freedom of all software users to control their +computing. rms remains the Chief GNUisance today.

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The primary and continuing goal of GNU is to offer a Unix-compatible +system that would be 100% free +software. Not 95% free, not 99.5%, but 100%. The name of the +system, GNU, is a recursive acronym meaning GNU's Not Unix—a way +of paying tribute to the technical ideas of Unix, while at the same time +saying that GNU is something different. Technically, GNU is like Unix. +But unlike Unix, GNU gives its users freedom.

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Completely free system +distributions (“distros”) meeting this goal are +available today, many using the Linux-libre kernel (the relationship between GNU and the Linux +kernel is described more fully elsewhere). The GNU packages have been designed to +work together so we could have a functioning GNU system. It has turned +out that they also serve as a common “upstream” for many +distros, so contributions to GNU packages help the free software +community as a whole. Naturally, work on GNU is ongoing, with the goal +to create a system that gives the greatest freedom to computer users. +GNU packages include user-oriented applications, utilities, tools, +libraries, even games—all the programs that an operating system +can usefully offer to its users. New +packages are welcome.

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Thousands of people have joined in to make GNU the success it is +today, and there are many ways to +contribute, both technical and non-technical. GNU developers gather +from time to time in GNU Hackers Meetings, +sometimes as part of the larger free software community LibrePlanet conferences.

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GNU has been supported in several ways by the Free Software Foundation, the nonprofit +organization also founded by rms to advocate free software ideals. +Among other things, the FSF accepts copyright assignments and +disclaimers, so it can act in court on behalf of GNU programs. (To be +clear, contributing a program to GNU does not require +transferring copyright to the FSF. If you do assign copyright, the FSF +will enforce the GPL for the program if someone violates it; if you keep +the copyright, enforcement will be up to you.)

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The ultimate goal is to provide free software to do all of the +jobs computer users want to do—and thus make proprietary software +a thing of the past.

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