Its name is a recursive acronym, “Gnu’s Not UNIX“, which states categorically its position with respect to the Bell Labs original, but provides many software components which, while they ...

The name GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix." The whole point of developing the GNU system is that it is not Unix. Written by Richard Stallman, Contributor June 22, 2003 at 5:00 p.m. PT ...

By 1983, this vision had crystallized into a mission: to create a free Unix-like operating system. Thus, GNU, which stands for "GNU's Not Unix," was born. As RMS wrote at the time, ...

The recursive acronym, GNU, stands for “GNU’s Not Unix”, which means that Stallman and the FSF answer “no” to the question of the relation of the GNU/Linux operating system to Unix.

GNU, confusingly, stands for "GNU's Not UNIX." This project is responsible for the UNIX-like GNU OS. Stallman also launched the related Free Software Foundation (FSF) ...

The GNU Manifesto is characteristic of its author, Richard Stallman—deceptively simple, lucid, explicitly left-leaning, and entirely uncompromising.

The GNU OS, however, still needed a kernel. It was provided, perhaps advertently, by a Finnish computer science student Linus Torvalds who in 1991 began working on his own free version of Unix for ...