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