/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. Son> John Gilmore. [Jargon File] (1997-04-12)
