/g*noo/ 1. A recursive acronym: "GNU' s Not Unix!".The Free Software Foundation' s project to provide a freely distributable replacement for Unix.The GNU Manifesto was published in the March 1985 issue of Dr. Dobb' s Journal but the GNU project started a year and a half earlier when Richard Stallman was trying to get funding to work on his freely distributable editor, Emacs.Emacs and the GNU C compiler, gcc, two tools designed for this project, have become very popular.GNU software is available from many GNU archive sites.See also Hurd.2. John Gilmore.[Jargon File](1997-04-12)