GNU's Not Unix!

This is an unofficial archive of GNU information. The FSF now has the "official" GNU web pages set up.

It is mainly a collection of information that I have collected over the years Much of it is either "historical" information or information that FSF does not keep in the software archives.

I also try to maintain links to all the GNU resources I know of around the web. This page pretty much represents all the information I have relating to GNU, so please investigate the various links I have here before sending me e-mail (unless you like the words "I don't know").

Documentation/announcements/information

• What is GNU?
• GNU's Bulletins. Or you can skip the index and get the latest edition.
• The Conference on Freely Redistributable Software in Cambridge, 2-5 February 1996.
• Where/How to get GNU software. Delorie Software provides www access to the gnu archives (very useful! It can give you listings of the contents of the .tar.gz files, and extract files from them, without having to download the whole archive.)
• RMS' paper on Why you should not use TCL. Not suprisingly, this generated a flamewar. The subsequent announcement of the GNU extension language plans sparked another flamewar. See below for further information on GUILE.
• The GNU utilities fared very well against several proprietary versions of UNIX in some 'fuzz tests'. You can get the original paper or the second paper (which has the numbers for the GNU utilities)
• 10 years ago on the net - rms's GNU announcement
• The GNU Task List (local copy) The original can be found at ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/tasks
• Democracy Triumphs in Disk Units
• An article from Wired about GNU
• Mr. Protocol on the GNU copyleft
• A newspaper article about Alfie Kohn's book No Contest
• Manuals for GNU software are available at several places on the web, including Delorie Software (this looks to be the most comleat), Ohio State, Virginia Tech and Cambridge University. Printed copies can be ordered from the FSF, you can find an order form near the end of the latest GNU's Bulletin
• Those using Texinfo may find my Texinfo reference card useful.

Specific Projects

If you know of any GNU or GNU related projects with web pages, let me know.

• GNU and other free OS's
  • GNU HURD information. The first alpha is out!
  • Debian Linux Project.
  • Linux is a copylefted kernel, which uses GNU, BSD and X software to make a compleat free OS. This or FreeBSD or NetBSD are great OS's to use until the Hurd is stable.
• Emacs stuff
  • AUC TeX -- A much enhanced LaTeX mode for GNU Emacs.
  • IESD has an ftp archive of locally developed emacs lisp code.
  • vi vs. Emacs an article from SunWorld Online
  • Emacs Lisp web page (lots of good info)
  • GNU Emacs FAQ
  • Mailcrypt -- a PGP interface for Emacs.
  • html-helper-mode -- an HTML major mode for Emacs.
  • DING an emacs mode for reading USENET news, a drop-in replacement for GNUS. (there is also a US mirror)
  • Emacs W3 Web browser.
  • A GNU Emacs mode for SGML files
• GUILE is the GNU extension language.
  • Tom Lord's technical paper on guile
  • Guile snapshots (via ftp)
  • A tutorial for using libguile by Mark Galassi. There are links to many other related resources in there.

  There are two projects using GUILE as their extension language:

  • GROW -- The GNU Remote Operations Web
  • GNUDL -- the GNU Data Language
• GUAVAC a standalone compiler for the Java programming language.
• GNU Internationalization/Native Language Support effort (This is a local copy, here is the original
  • French Team
  • German Team
• GNU Enscript
• Less -- more of a pager :-)
• xDuel -- a graphical extension to Duel debugging language enables you to print data structures under gdb(GNU debugger).
• Ghostscript, Ghostview & GSview
• g++ info at Cygnus.
• Bounds Checking for C
• g77 (GNU FORTRAN) status available, via: finger -l fortran@gnu.ai.mit.edu
• GNU Objective C Class Library Home Page.
• DDD - The Data Display Debugger .
• Es: A shell with higher-order functions
• GNU Midnight Commander -- a file manager and visual shell for Unix machines.
• The DejaGnu Testing Framework
• GNU OpenStep Project, another page about it at Sovam Teleport and one in Europe
• Concurrent Version System. Cyclic Software provides commercial support for CVS.
• HylaFax -- ( formerly called FlexFax), a facsimile system for UNIX systems.
• A Proposal/Specification for a Freeware Generic Simulator
• GN, a hybrid Internet Gopher/WWW (World Wide Web) server. and WN, an http only server from the same author.
• The PHTTPD World Wide Web Server.
• Spinner -- a modularised, object oriented World Wide Web HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/0.9 compliant server, distributed under the GPL license.
• Apache HTTP Server
• LessTif - A free drop in replacement for the Motif 1.2 widget set under development for the GNU project.
• GNAT Project (GNU Ada Translator) (also via ftp)
• GNATS (aka GNU PRMS) The GNU Bug Tracking System.
• The Free Model Foundation (Electrical engineering modeling).
• Gnuplot FAQ. Gnuplot is not GNU software (the name is coincidental), but GNU does distribute it.
• GNU Chess FAQ
• Xconquer
• G++ FAQ -- plain text version and Texinfo version
• X Window System
• The MGR Window System
• LEAP - a relational algebra based RDBMS - available under the GNU General Public License.
• Xmgr -- an XY plotting tool for workstations or X-terminals using X.
• ImageMagick
• NMH -- The new ``MH'' Message Handling System.
• omniORB2 A copylefted CORBA 2 compliant ORB.
• GNU Troff

Pre-compiled GNU Software

Often people have problems compiling GNU software on their own (due to OS defficiencies, porting problems, &c.) So some kind people have made binaries available. I suspect there are more out there, so please let me know if you know of any others.

• You can buy the "Compiler Tools Binaries CD-ROM" which has binaries of the various compiler tools for several platforms. Check in the latest GNU's Bulletin for information and the order form.
• Most of the GNU tools are a standard part of all Linux systems, There is also lots of other free software (copylefted or otherwise) that has been written, check out the Linux Software Map.
• The GNU web page at University of Wisconsin has binaries for some GNU packages compiled for HP-UX.
• GNU binaries for several platforms (mips, sol2 and sun4) can be found at ftp://ftp.umu.se/src/
• Cygnus Support has a GNU Win32 project (Windows NT/Windows 95)
• DJGPP -- 32-bit GNU C/C++ for MS-DOS
• GNU Emacs on Windows NT and Windows 95
• The OAK Software Repository has a large archive of GNU software ported to NT and DOS The also have a mirror of DJGPP
• Walnut Creek CDROM sells a GNU CD which contains binaries for SunOS 4.1.3 and Solaris 2.3.
• Amiga ports of many GNU tools. I have been told that the previous Amiga GNU site I had listed is not as up to date.
• Atari ports of many GNU tools
• OS/2 ports of many GNU tools
• GNU tools for the Intel Paragon(tm) Supercomputer
• Atari Ghostscript
• UnixWare Binaries

GNU Support Companies

The following companies provide commercial support for GNU software. There are probably others.

• Cygnus Support
• Hundred Acre Consulting
• Cyclic Software
• Delorie Software
• Crynwr Software (DOS packet drivers)
• The GNAT Project (GNU Ada Translator) has commercial support available.
• Wingnut Project (SRA's special GNU support group).

Other Organizations

The following organizations may be of interest to GNU enthusiasts.

• League for Programming Freedom. Anyone interested in free software should seriously consider joining and helping the LPF stop software patents and look and feel copyrights, before they stop you.
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation.
• BAGEL Information (Bay Area GNU Enthusiasts League).
• Project Gutenberg Home Page
• UNIX User Groups Around the World

Other GNU Web Pages

• GNU Software Index
• Prime Time Freeware maintains a listing of freeware resources
• GNU info at ISIS (University of Southampton)
• Gnu info at delorie.com
• Japanese Gnu info (looks like some GNU's bulletins and an index to gnu.emacs.sources)
• Baker.com GNU Web page has some good stuff, including a GNU software map and a GNU documentation map
• DESY GNU Project Overview
• General FSF info from Stanford.
• Matthew D. Langston's Bookmarks has a bunch of GNU links, some that I don't have.

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