The GNU project was announced by Richard Stallman in September 1983 with the aim of creating a complete Unix-compatible operating system consisting entirely of free software, which users would be free to run, study, change and share. The name is a recursive acronym for GNU's Not Unix. Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation in 1985 and published the GNU General Public License in 1989. The project produced essential components, including the GCC compiler, the Emacs editor and the Bash shell, but its own kernel, the Hurd, was not finished. In the early 1990s Linus Torvalds released the Linux kernel, and when combined with the GNU tools it formed a complete free system, often called GNU/Linux by those who want to credit the GNU contribution.
Before and after
- from 23 July 1983 to 18 May 2009Sri Lankan civil war
- 6 August 1983Birth of Robin van Persie
- 1 September 1983Korean Air Lines Flight 007 crash
- 14 September 1983Birth of Amy Winehouse
- 27 September 1983Creation of GNU
- October 1983Release of Microsoft Word
- from 25 October 1983 to 15 December 19831983 Invasion of Grenada
- 20 November 1983Creation of Turbo Pascal
- 17 December 1983Harrods bombing
More in Science & technology
- 1971Email
- 1973Mobile phone
- 20 November 1985Creation of Microsoft Windows
- July 2000Discovery of livermorium
- 15 January 2001Wikipedia
- 20 October 2004Creation of Ubuntu
The era
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