GNU is Turning 39 Years Old in a Matter of Hours (and You're Very Likely Using It All the Time But Simply Unaware of That, Referring to It by the 'Wrong' Name)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2022-09-26 16:11:40 UTC
- Modified: 2022-09-26 16:11:40 UTC
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GNU is 39
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Summary: GNU is the project that gave us GCC (Free/libre compiler) and the GPL, among many other things; it's important to recognise the significance of its genesis 39 years ago in Massachusetts
Today is the 26th, so tomorrow (or several hours from now) is GNU's birthday, this one being the 39th, which means next year is the 40th!
With GNU
at 39 (big number) it's worth recalling what that actually is and what it means to "Linux". Many things that people erroneously call "Linux commands" are
in fact GNU programs and
Richard Stallman told me he wrote
rm,
ls, and
cp] (more
here).
An associate of ours thought we might as well mention that "GNU provides much of the user-space for GNU/Linux distrootr: and even a little for other systems up to and including MacOS and FreeBSD."
There are some introductions and histories [
1,
2,
3] online, partially lost in a sea of revisionism and misinformation.
This one is also relevant for later, regarding
the Halloween Documents.
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