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the gnu operating system and the free software movement skip to main text free software supporter join the fsf gnu operating system supported by the free software foundation site navigation skip about gnu philosophy licenses education software distros docs malware help gnu audio video gnu art fun gnu s who software directory hardware sitemap gnu is the only operating system developed specifically to give its users freedom what is gnu and what freedom is at stake escape to freedom a video from the fsf what is gnu gnu is an operating system that is free software that is it respects users freedom the gnu operating system consists of gnu packages programs specifically released by the gnu project as well as free software released by third parties the development of gnu made it possible to use a computer without software that would trample your freedom we recommend installable versions of gnu more precisely gnu linux distributions which are entirely free software more about gnu below try gnu linux dragora tde guix plasma hyperbola i3 parabola lxde pureos gnome3 trisquel mate or try parts of gnu what is the free software movement the free software movement campaigns to win for the users of computing the freedom that comes from free software free software puts its users in control of their own computing nonfree software puts its users under the power of the software s developer see the video explanation what is free software free software means the users have the freedom to run copy distribute study change and improve the software free software is a matter of liberty not price to understand the concept you should think of free as in free speech not as in free beer more precisely free software means users of a program have the four essential freedoms the freedom to run the program as you wish for any purpose freedom 0 the freedom to study how the program works and change it so it does your computing as you wish freedom 1 access to the source code is a precondition for this the freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others freedom 2 the freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others freedom 3 by doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes access to the source code is a precondition for this developments in technology and network use have made these freedoms even more important now than they were in 1983 nowadays the free software movement goes far beyond developing the gnu system see the free software foundation s web site for more about what we do and a list of ways you can help more about gnu gnu is a unix like operating system that means it is a collection of many programs applications libraries developer tools even games the development of gnu started in january 1984 is known as the gnu project many of the programs in gnu are released under the auspices of the gnu project those we call gnu packages the name gnu is a recursive acronym for gnu s not unix gnu is pronounced g noo as one syllable like saying grew but replacing the r with n the program in a unix like system that allocates machine resources and talks to the hardware is called the kernel gnu is typically used with a kernel called linux this combination is the gnu linux operating system gnu linux is used by millions though many call it linux by mistake gnu s own kernel the gnu hurd was started in 1990 before linux was started volunteers continue developing the hurd because it is an interesting technical project more information the gnu project strongly urges the community to communicate in ways that are friendly welcoming and kind see the gnu kind communications guidelines as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours and this we should do freely and generously benjamin franklin autobiography planet gnu gnu health as a solution for europe digital change italy digi change conf during the days 6 9 of october will take place the digi change conference in turin piedmont region italy digi c september gnu spotlight with amin bandali featuring seventeen new gnu releases coreutils scm and more fsf comments on newsom s executive order on so called artificial intelligence take action support current fsf campaigns sign the petition for freedom in the classroom join the copilot watch group more action items can you help gnu with any of these projects gnu high priority enhancement projects free program to subtract background music can you contribute to any of the long term high priority projects can you help maintain a gnu package these packages are looking for maintainers halifax quickthreads guile sdl superopt wdiff also these packages are looking for co maintainers aspell bison gnuae gnubatch gnubik gnuspool metaexchange powerguru see the package web pages for more information recent gnu releases short descriptions for all gnu packages today s random package termcap gnu termcap is a library and a database that are used to enable the use of display terminals in a terminal independent manner the database describes the capabilities of many different display terminals the library can then adapt generalized instructions given by a program to the specific capabilities of the display terminal as found in the database doc back to top set language available for this page en english de deutsch el ελληνικά es español fa فارسی fr français it italiano ja 日本語 nl nederlands pt br português ru русский sq shqip tr türkçe zh cn 简体中文 zh tw 繁體中文 back to top the free software foundation fsf is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom we defend the rights of all software users join donate shop the fsf also has sister organizations in europe latin america and india feel free to join them please send general fsf gnu inquiries to gnu gnu org there are also other ways to contact the fsf broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent to webmasters gnu org please see the 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