190075Sobrien@c Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 290075Sobrien@c This is part of the GCC manual. 390075Sobrien@c For copying conditions, see the file gcc.texi. 490075Sobrien 590075Sobrien@node GNU Project 690075Sobrien@unnumbered The GNU Project and GNU/Linux 790075Sobrien 890075SobrienThe GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like 990075Sobrienoperating system which is free software: the GNU system. (GNU is a 1090075Sobrienrecursive acronym for ``GNU's Not Unix''; it is pronounced 1190075Sobrien``guh-NEW''@.) Variants of the GNU operating system, which use the 1290075Sobrienkernel Linux, are now widely used; though these systems are often 1390075Sobrienreferred to as ``Linux'', they are more accurately called GNU/Linux 1490075Sobriensystems. 1590075Sobrien 1690075SobrienFor more information, see: 1790075Sobrien@smallexample 1890075Sobrien@uref{http://www.gnu.org/} 1990075Sobrien@uref{http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html} 2090075Sobrien@end smallexample 21