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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/94e2dd0e-25fd-4500-af78-d82deb081f03/3B56406A-F509-40BD-A342-EBE425F77522/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GNU&oldid=178909816" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GNU&oldid=178909816" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GNU&oldid=178909816"><P><B>GNU</B> (<A title="Help:Pronunciation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pronunciation" class="snap_shots">pronounced</A> <SPAN class="IPA audiolink nounderlines"><A title="En-gnu.ogg" class="internal" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/En-gnu.ogg">/ˈgnuː/</A></SPAN> <SPAN class="metadata audiolinkinfo"><SMALL>(<A title="Wikipedia:Media help" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_help" class="snap_shots">help</A>·<A title="Image:En-gnu.ogg" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:En-gnu.ogg" class="snap_shots">info</A>)</SMALL></SPAN>) is a computer <A title="Operating system" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system" class="snap_shots">operating system</A> composed entirely of <A title="Free software" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software" class="snap_shots">free software</A>. Its name is a <A title="Recursive acronym" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym" class="snap_shots">recursive acronym</A> for <I>GNU's Not Unix</I>; it was chosen because its design is <A title="Unix-like" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like" class="snap_shots">Unix-like</A>, but differs from Unix by being free software and by not containing any <A title="Unix" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix" class="snap_shots">Unix</A> code.<SUP class="reference" id="_ref-0"><A title="" href="#_note-0" class="snap_shots">[1]</A></SUP> GNU was founded by <A title="Richard Stallman" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman" class="snap_shots">Richard Stallman</A> and was the original focus of the <A title="Free Software Foundation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation" class="snap_shots">Free Software Foundation</A> (FSF).</p> <P>The project to develop GNU is known as the <I><A title="GNU Project" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Project" class="snap_shots">GNU Project</A></I>, and programs released under the auspices of the GNU Project are called <I>GNU packages</I> or <I>GNU programs</I>. The system's basic components include the <A title="GNU Compiler Collection" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection" class="snap_shots">GNU Compiler Collection</A> (GCC), the <A title="GNU Binary Utilities" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Binary_Utilities" class="snap_shots">GNU Binary Utilities</A> (binutils), the <A title="Bash" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash" class="snap_shots">bash</A> shell, the <A title="GNU C library" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_C_library" class="snap_shots">GNU C library</A> (glibc), and <A title="GNU Core Utilities" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Core_Utilities" class="snap_shots">GNU Core Utilities</A> (coreutils).</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3B56406A-F509-40BD-A342-EBE425F77522/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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