1@c Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 2@c This is part of the GCC manual. 3@c For copying conditions, see the file gcc.texi. 4 5@node GNU Project 6@unnumbered The GNU Project and GNU/Linux 7 8The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like 9operating system which is free software: the GNU system. (GNU is a 10recursive acronym for ``GNU's Not Unix''; it is pronounced 11``guh-NEW''@.) Variants of the GNU operating system, which use the 12kernel Linux, are now widely used; though these systems are often 13referred to as ``Linux'', they are more accurately called GNU/Linux 14systems. 15 16For more information, see: 17@smallexample 18@uref{http://www.gnu.org/} 19@uref{http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html} 20@end smallexample 21