@c Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @c This is part of the GCC manual. @c For copying conditions, see the file gcc.texi. @node GNU Project @unnumbered The GNU Project and GNU/Linux The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like operating system which is free software: the GNU system. (GNU is a recursive acronym for ``GNU's Not Unix''; it is pronounced ``guh-NEW''@.) Variants of the GNU operating system, which use the kernel Linux, are now widely used; though these systems are often referred to as ``Linux'', they are more accurately called GNU/Linux systems. For more information, see: @smallexample @uref{http://www.gnu.org/} @uref{http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html} @end smallexample