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GNU and /
* ASPLinux, Russian Fedora Core-based GNU / Linux distribution
Most include the familiar GNU and / or Unix development tools, including make, yacc, lex and a cc command which acts a wrapper around a supported C compiler.
Debian GNU / Linux, which includes the GNU OS tools and Linux kernel, is a popular and influential Linux distribution.
Debian GNU / Hurd is the Debian project's distribution of the GNU operating system, using the GNU Hurd microkernel.
Debian GNU / Hurd has been in development since 1998, but still has not been officially released.
Over 70 % of the software packaged for Debian GNU / Linux has been ported to the GNU Hurd.
The overwhelming majority of Debian users run Debian GNU / Linux, rather than Debian GNU / Hurd.
The Debian GNU / Hurd developers are hoping to be able to release it for the next major release of Debian, " wheezy ", which is planned to be sometime around 2013.
Debian GNU / Hurd is distributed on a live CD.
The current version of Debian GNU / Hurd is L1 as of 2011.
* Debian GNU / Hurd home page
GNU / Hurd
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GNU and Linux
He is also credited with the first port of the GNU C compiler to the INTEL 386 architecture, used in the original implementation of the Linux kernel.
Released in 1989, it has been distributed widely as the shell for the GNU operating system and as the default shell on Linux and.
Many Unix, GNU, BSD and Linux programs and packages have been ported to Cygwin, including the X Window System, K Desktop Environment 3, GNOME, Apache, and TeX.
Operating systems that supported Alpha included OpenVMS ( previously known as OpenVMS AXP ), Tru64 UNIX ( previously known as DEC OSF / 1 AXP and Digital UNIX ), Windows NT ( until 4. 0 SP6 and Windows 2000 RC1 ), GNU / Linux ( Debian GNU / Linux, Gentoo Linux and Red Hat Linux ), BSD UNIX ( NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD up to 6. x ), as well as the L4Ka :: Pistachio kernel.
Paradoxically as it seems, it is the symbiosis of their works that make up a complete operating system known as GNU / Linux, or just Linux.

GNU and naming
Torvalds describes the development of the Linux kernel, the GNU / Linux naming controversy, Linux's further evolution, and its commercialization.
And Lord notes that the film shows, but does not challenge Torvalds or Stallman about their equally disingenuous remarks about the " Linux " vs " GNU / Linux " naming issue.
As another example, the GNU / Linux naming controversy is, in part, due to disagreement about the relationship between the Linux kernel and the operating systems built over this kernel.
Where Unix programs that use dotfiles are ported to Windows, they are sometimes modified to accept some other naming convention ; for example, GNU Emacs permits its configuration file to be named < tt > _emacs </ tt > instead of < tt >. emacs </ tt >.
The GNU / Linux naming controversy is a dispute among members of the free and open source software community over how to refer to the computer operating system commonly called Linux.
In continuing to speak on the subject, in 2010, Stallman stated that naming is not simply a matter of giving equal mention to the GNU Project.
# REDIRECT GNU / Linux naming controversy
Some also criticize GNU arch for using very unusual file naming conventions (" FunkyFileNames "), which can create difficulties for using it in scripts, some shells, and in porting it to non-Unix operating systems.
# REDIRECT GNU / Linux naming controversy
* GNU / Linux naming controversy
* Richard Stallman mentions " The Gnu " in connection with the naming of the GNU project in a 2002 interview.

GNU and controversy
The Sender ID proposal was the subject of controversy regarding intellectual property licensing issues: Microsoft holds patents on key parts of Sender ID and used to license those patents under terms that were not compatible with the GNU General Public License and which were considered problematic for free software implementations in general.

GNU and FSF
Software development for the GNU operating system began in January 1984, and the Free Software Foundation ( FSF ) was founded in October 1985.
The GNU Lesser General Public License ( formerly the GNU Library General Public License ) or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation ( FSF ).
After the hearing, FSF commented that " Judge Saris made clear that she sees the GNU GPL to be an enforceable and binding license.
Whether a piece of new XEmacs code enters GNU Emacs often depends on the willingness of that individual contributor to assign the code to the FSF.
This allowed communication may or may not include reusing libraries or routines via dynamic linking — some commentators say it does, the FSF asserts it does not and explicitly adds an exception allowing it in the license for the GNU Classpath re-implementation of the Java library.
version of GNU Chess 5 is about 350 Elo stronger than the original FSF version.
In 2004, after a security compromise and resignations among the Savannah " hackers " ( i. e. volunteers ) team, FSF announced that it was going to move GNU Savannah from the Savannah ( now Savane ) software to GForge due to a mistaken perception that the codebase was now unmaintained.
The GNU Project and the FSF sometimes differentiate between " strong " and " weak " copyleft.
* Wget 1. 4. 3, released February 1997, was the first version released as part of the GNU project with the copyright assigned to the FSF.
As counsel, Moglen was charged with enforcing the GNU General Public License ( GPL ) on behalf of the FSF ,< ref >
It also makes use of GNU Classpath ( copyrighted by the FSF ) which is licensed under the GNU General Public License with linking exception.
A newer version of the program is part of the GNU project and is maintained by the FSF.
GNU / Linux is a term promoted by the Free Software Foundation ( FSF ), its founder Richard Stallman, and its supporters, for operating systems that include GNU software and the Linux kernel.
The FSF argues for the term GNU / Linux because GNU was a longstanding project to develop a free operating system, of which they say the kernel was the last missing piece.
The FSF agrees that " GNU / Linux " is not an appropriate name for these systems.
Free Software Foundation | FSF artwork of the gnu ( GNU mascot ) and the penguin Tux ( Linux kernel mascot ) representing their viewpoint on " GNU / Linux ".
The FSF justifies the name " GNU / Linux " primarily on the grounds that the GNU project was specifically developing a complete system, of which they argue the kernel Linux filled one of the final gaps ; the large number of GNU components and GNU source code used in such systems is a secondary argument:

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