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10 unusual facts about GNU


9793 Torvalds

9882 Stallman, an asteroid named after Richard Matthew Stallman, American hacker, founder of the free software movement and the GNU project

BrickOS

It also provides a C/C++ development environment for RCX programs using gcc and g++ (the GNU C and C++ cross compilation tool chain) and the necessary tools to download programs to the RCX.

Fle3

When Fle3 was released in 2002 the developers were claiming that the name comes from "Fle3 is a Learning Environment", with intertextual reference to the name GNU (GNU is Not Unix).

GNU/Linux naming controversy

In 1991, the first version of the Linux kernel was released by Linus Torvalds.

Infineon XMC

DAVE includes a GNU - compiler, a Debugger, and a visualization utility for graphic presentation of data.

Jonathan Peizer

Peizer founded and chairs Aspiration, a non-profit whose Social Source Commons library of GNU software provides resources for non-governmental organizations, and Capaciteria, a user-managed database of management resources

RecordMyDesktop

recordMyDesktop is a free and open source desktop screencasting software application written for GNU/Linux.

RL78

The RL78 family is supported with a range of Hardware and software development tools including the GNU Compiler Collection and IAR Systems compilers with an integrated design environment called Eclipse Embedded Studio or e2studio, CMX, Micrium, Segger, and FreeRTOS real-time operating systems can be supported.

Sulake

In its early days, Sulake developed and experimented with an open source Java based GNU called FUSE Light, an alternative to Macromedia's Flash.

Victor Shoup

His freely available (under the terms of the GNU GPL) C++ library of number theory algorithms, NTL, is widely used and well regarded for its high performance.


AltGr key

In the X Window System (GNU/Linux, BSD, Unix), AltGr can often be used to produce additional characters with almost every key on the keyboard.

Ankur

Ankur Group, a community working toward supporting Bengali language (Bangla) on GNU/Linux operating system

Applix 1616

:advent, ar, arc, at, cal, cat, chess (gnu), cmp, comm, compress, conquest, cron, dd, diff, ed, eroff, grep, head, indent, make, MicroEMACS, more, nroff, roff, sc, sed, sort, split, STEVIE, strings, sum, tail, tar, tee, ularn, uniq, vi, wanderer, wc, xmodem, ymodem, zmodem, zoo

BLAG Linux and GNU

Richard Stallman mentioned BLAG, GNU and Ututo when asked which distro he recommended during his speech at Universiti Sains Malaysia in 2005.

Coyotes in popular culture

The cartoon coyote Wilber is the official mascot for GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), a free raster graphics editor.

Danger from the Deep

The game is Multi-platform, meaning that any user can play it on a machine running FreeBSD, a recent version of Mac OS X, a GNU/Linux distribution, or a supported version of Microsoft Windows, along with 256 MB of RAM and a processor with 1 GHz of speed.

Daniel Wallace

Daniel Wallace, the plaintiff in Wallace v. International Business Machines Corp. et al., a lawsuit filed against the GNU General Public License

Distro

Linux distribution, a specific vendor's package of the GNU/Linux operating system

Exult

The current graphics code uses the SDL library, which has led to Exult being ported for Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Sharp Zaurus, Microsoft Windows Mobile, and other operating systems aside from the original "free *NIX" platforms (such as FreeBSD and GNU/Linux).

Frederick Fish

Fred Fish (1952 – 2007), American computer programmer known for GNU Debugger and free Fish disks for Amiga

Free software movement

The two most prominent people attached to the movement, Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds, may be seen as representatives of the value based versus apolitical philosophies, as well as the GNU versus Linux coding styles.

GNU arch

The original author and maintainer of GNU arch was Thomas Lord who started the project in 2001.

GNU Emacs

Markus Hess exploited a security flaw in GNU Emacs' email subsystem in his 1986 cracking spree in which he gained superuser access to Unix computers.

GNU MIX Development Kit

The GNU MDK, published in book form in 2002, was written by theoretical physics PhD Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz of Barcelona, Spain, and is released under the GNU General Public License, to allow and encourage users to freely share and improve the software.

GNU toolchain

Parts of the GNU toolchain are also directly used with or ported to other platforms such as Solaris, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows (via Cygwin and MinGW/MSYS) and Sony PlayStation 3.

Havoc Pennington

He was also one of the main developers of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, and also founded the project freedesktop.org in 2000.

Insight – ICT for the differently abled

The training programme makes use of Orca (an assistive technology for the visually challenged), Ubuntu and other GNU/Linux based operating systems.

Install Party des Savoie

During a day, people from Pays de Savoie, which is both Savoie and Haute-Savoie departements, is welcomed to get familiar with a new desktop environment, GNU/Linux, renowned for its ability to be reliable and virus-free.

John Carroll University

It was built in 1990 as "Gnu Hall" but was dedicated to St. Edmund Campion and the defunct Campion Jesuit High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin on November 13, 1993.

Jörg Schilling

Following cdrecord's relicensing to the CDDL, the suite was removed from Debian (and subsequently several other major GNU/Linux distributions) and replaced with a fork called cdrkit.

Livid

LiViD, former mailing list about video playback on GNU/Linux

OpenBTS

It is written in C++ and released as free software under the terms of version 3 of the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL).

Phatch

Phatch is being developed on GNU Linux (Ubuntu) by Stani Michiels.

PICKit

e.g. GNU/Linux version of PICKit 2 application software, DOS style CMD support, etc.

Savane

GNU Savane, a free web-based software hosting system used by GNU Savannah (forked from SourceForge)

Scenestar

Donohoe was a member of the City of Greater Dandenong Muso Network, booked many of the alternative bands at The Venue, and was involved in the Decimus Gnu compilation CD.

Singapore GNU Group

The Singapore GNU Group's organization models itself after the Mozilla Foundation.

Spy Fox

When running with ScummVM, these games can be played on different operating systems, including Windows, Mac and GNU/Linux.

Support Incident Tracker

In 2005, version 3.21 was released as free and open source software under the GNU General Public License and a Freecode project was created.

TeX

TeXShop for Apple Mac OS X, TeXworks for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and MS Windows, and WinShell for MS Windows are similar tools and provide an integrated development environment (IDE) for working with LaTeX or TeX.

Warmux

The teams are styled after the mascots of various free software projects, such as GNU, Linux, FreeBSD, KDE, GIMP, OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Thunderbird, Suse, Workrave, NuFW, SPIP, and Bugzilla.

Whu Gnu


Jonathan Meiburg began Whu Gnu out of two previous musical ensembles: 'Mysterious Union' and the Lawrence Dale Bell High School Jazz Band.

Year 10,000 problem

The GNU Fortran compiler, g77, makes reference in run-time environment limits to year 10000 (Y10K) problems when using intrinsic functions with this compiler suite.