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n. type of oxlike African antelope GNU (GNU's not UNIX) n. (Computers) operating system founded by Richard Stallman that resembles UNIX and can be distributed modified and copied freely after paying an initial fee (developed by the Free Software Foundation) | ||||
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GNU Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries
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<body, project> /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. John Gilmore.
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<body, project> /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.
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(1997-04-12)
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/gnoo/, not /noo/ 1. [acronym: `GNU's Not Unix!', see recursive acronym] A Unix-workalike development effort of the Free Software Foundation headed by Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu>. GNU EMACS and the GNU C compiler, two tools designed for this project, have become very popular in hackerdom and elsewhere. The GNU project was designed partly to proselytize for RMS's position that information is community property and all software source should be shared. One of its slogans is "Help stamp out software hoarding!" Though this remains controversial (because it implicitly denies any right of designers to own, assign, and sell the results of their labors), many hackers who disagree with RMS have nevertheless cooperated to produce large amounts of high-quality software for free redistribution under the Free Software Foundation's imprimatur. The GNU project has a web page at http://www.gnu.org. See EMACS, copyleft, General Public Virus, Linux. 2. Noted Unix hacker John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>, founder of Usenet's anarchic alt.* hierarchy.
/gnoo/, not /noo/ 1. [acronym: `GNU's Not Unix!', see recursive acronym] A Unix-workalike development effort of the Free Software Foundation headed by Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu>. GNU EMACS and the GNU C compiler, two tools designed for this project, have become very popular in hackerdom and elsewhere. The GNU project was designed partly to proselytize for RMS's position that information is community property and all software source should be shared. One of its slogans is "Help stamp out software hoarding!" Though this remains controversial (because it implicitly denies any right of designers to own, assign, and sell the results of their labors), many hackers who disagree with RMS have nevertheless cooperated to produce large amounts of high-quality software for free redistribution under the Free Software Foundation's imprimatur. The GNU project has a web page at http://www.gnu.org. See EMACS, copyleft, General Public Virus, Linux. 2. Noted Unix hacker John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>, founder of Usenet's anarchic alt.* hierarchy.
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Self-referentially, short for GNU's not UNIX, a UNIX-compatible software system developed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The philosophy behind GNU is to produce software that is non-proprietary. Anyone can download, modify and redistribute GNU software. The only restriction is that they cannot limit further redistribution. The GNU project was started in 1983 by Richard Stallman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Linux systems rely heavily on GNU software and in the past, GNU systems used the Linux kernel. This close connection has led some people to mistakenly equate GNU with Linux. They are actually quite separate. In fact, the FSF is developing a new kernel called HURD to replace the Linux kernel in GNU systems.
Self-referentially, short for GNU's not UNIX, a UNIX-compatible software system developed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The philosophy behind GNU is to produce software that is non-proprietary. Anyone can download, modify and redistribute GNU software. The only restriction is that they cannot limit further redistribution. The GNU project was started in 1983 by Richard Stallman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Linux systems rely heavily on GNU software and in the past, GNU systems used the Linux kernel. This close connection has led some people to mistakenly equate GNU with Linux. They are actually quite separate. In fact, the FSF is developing a new kernel called HURD to replace the Linux kernel in GNU systems.
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An organisation that disributes, encourages and provides a form of licence for free software. Hurrah
An organisation that disributes, encourages and provides a form of licence for free software. Hurrah
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Gnu
(n.)
One of two species of large South African antelopes of the genus Catoblephas, having a mane and bushy tail, and curved horns in both sexes.
(n.)
One of two species of large South African antelopes of the genus Catoblephas, having a mane and bushy tail, and curved horns in both sexes.
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Noun
1. large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail
(synonym) wildebeest
(hypernym) antelope
(member-holonym) Connochaetes, genus Connochaetes
Noun
1. large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail
(synonym) wildebeest
(hypernym) antelope
(member-holonym) Connochaetes, genus Connochaetes
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Gnu, (n.)
An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.
A hunter from Kew caught a distant view
Of a peacefully meditative gnu,
And he said: "I'll pursue, and my hands imbrue
In its blood at a closer interview."
But that beast did ensue and the hunter it threw
O'er the top of a palm that adjacent grew;
And he said as he flew: "It is well I withdrew
Ere, losing my temper, I wickedly slew
That really meritorious gnu." Jarn Leffer
Gnu, (n.)
An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.
A hunter from Kew caught a distant view
Of a peacefully meditative gnu,
And he said: "I'll pursue, and my hands imbrue
In its blood at a closer interview."
But that beast did ensue and the hunter it threw
O'er the top of a palm that adjacent grew;
And he said as he flew: "It is well I withdrew
Ere, losing my temper, I wickedly slew
That really meritorious gnu." Jarn Leffer
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\gnu\ (?), n. [hottentot gnu, or nju: cf. f. gnou.] (zo?l.) one of two species of large south african antelopes of the genus catoblephas, having a mane and bushy tail, and curved horns in both sexes. [written also gnoo.]
note: the common gnu or wildebeest (catoblephas gnu) is plain brown; the brindled gnu or blue wildebeest (c. gorgon) is larger, with transverse stripes of black on the neck and shoulders.
gnu
n : large african antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail [syn: wildebeest]
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gnu
\gnu\ (?), n. [hottentot gnu, or nju: cf. f. gnou.] (zo?l.) one of two species of large south african antelopes of the genus catoblephas, having a mane and bushy tail, and curved horns in both sexes. [written also gnoo.]
note: the common gnu or wildebeest (catoblephas gnu) is plain brown; the brindled gnu or blue wildebeest (c. gorgon) is larger, with transverse stripes of black on the neck and shoulders.
gnu
n : large african antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail [syn: wildebeest]
similar words(10)
gnu e
gnu emacs
gnu superoptimiser
gnu sed
gnu smalltalk
under the terms of the gnu free documentation license, version 11 or
gnu dc
gnu assembler
gnu c
gnu archive site
GNU Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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GNU (pronounced ) is a computer operating system composed entirely of free software. Its name is a recursive acronym for GNU's Not Unix, which was chosen because its design is Unix-like, but differs from Unix by being free software and by not containing any Unix code. GNU was founded by Richard Stallman and was the original focus of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
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DotGNU
DotGNU is a part of the GNU Project that aims to provide a free software replacement for the Microsoft .NET. Other goals of the project are better support for non-Windows platforms and support for more processors.
The main goal of the DotGNU project and the Microsoft Shared Source CLI (Rotor) code base is to provide a class library that is 100% Common Language Specification compliant. In contrast, the main goal of another free software/open source CLI implementation, the Mono Project, is to provide 100 ompatible class libraries for both the CLS specification and with the class library currently released by Microsoft for their proprietary version of .NET, which the DotGNU project claims does not currently fully comply with the CLS specification published by ECMA.
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Wildebeest
- For other uses, see GNU (disambiguation) or Wildebeest (comics).
The wildebeest (plural, wildebeest or wildebeests), also called the gnu (pronounced or ), is an antelope of the genus Connochaetes. It is a hooved (ungulate) mammal.
Connochaetes includes two species, both native to Africa: the Black Wildebeest, or white-tailed gnu (C. gnou), and the Blue Wildebeest, or brindled gnu (C. taurinus). Gnus belong to the family Bovidae, which includes antelopes, cattle, goats, and other even-toed horned ungulates.
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