GNU

GNU was established in 1983 as the 's project to provide a freely distributable alternative to Unix. Its name was given the : "GNU's Not Unix!"

History
The was published in the March 1985 issue of  but the GNU project started a year and a half earlier when  was trying to get funding to work on his freely distributable editor,.

Emacs and the GNU C compiler, GCC, two tools designed for this project, have become very popular. GNU software is available from many archive sites.