The whole point of developing the GNU system is that it is not Unix. Unix is and always was non-free software, meaning that it denies its users the freedom to cooperate and to control their computers.

The official GNU microkernel is still breathing – and now it's 64-bit Before Linux, GNU was working on its own Mach-based Unix compatible OS. Now, in the footsteps of Debian 13, there is a new release ...

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.

For all SCO’s posturing over who owns the guts of the kernel, GNU’s self-referential acronym — it stands for “GNU’s Not Unix” — seems to have gained an unintended irony.

He launched the GNU ("GNU's Not Unix") project in 1984 to create a freely-distributable version of Unix, the networking operating system used by telcos and high-end Web servers.

”Free Unix!” began the missive. ”Starting this Thanksgiving I am going to write a complete Unix-compatible software system called GNU (for Gnu’s Not Unix), and give it away free to ...

Then Linux, not acting as a part of the GNU team wrote Linux, a replacement for the UNIX kernel. Then people who wanted a free UNIX ran the GNU tools and the Linux Kernel to create a complete OS ...

Gnome is an acronym for GNU Object Model Environment. That by itself doesn’t convey much information, though the GNU part (itself an acronym for GNU’s Not Unix) is a tip-off that the Gnome ...

GNU is an acronym for “GNU’s Not Unix.” Some involved with free software may not want their operating systems referred to by a term they consider tarnished.

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 ...