Gnu
[noo, nyoo] /nu, nyu/
noun, plural gnus (especially collectively) gnu.
1.
either of two stocky, oxlike antelopes of the genus Connochaetes, the silver-gray, white-bearded C. taurinus of the eastern African plain and the black, white-tailed C. gnou of central South Africa: recently near extinction, the South African gnu is now protected.
/nuː/
noun (pl) gnus, gnu
1.
either of two sturdy antelopes, Connochaetes taurinus (brindled gnu) or the much rarer C. gnou (white-tailed gnu), inhabiting the savannas of Africa, having an oxlike head and a long tufted tail Also called wildebeest
n.
1777, gnoo, from Dutch gnoe, used by German traveler Georg Forster (1754-1794) to render Hottentot i-ngu “wildebeest,” from Southern Bushman !nu: (in which ! and : represent clicks).
body, project
/g*noo/ 1. A recursive acronym: “GNU’s Not Unix!”. The Free Software Foundation’s project to provide a freely distributable replacement for Unix. The GNU Manifesto was published in the March 1985 issue of Dr. Dobb’s Journal but the GNU project started a year and a half earlier when Richard Stallman was trying to get funding to work on his freely distributable editor, Emacs.
Emacs and the GNU C compiler, gcc, two tools designed for this project, have become very popular. GNU software is available from many GNU archive sites.
See also Hurd.
2. John Gilmore.
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(1997-04-12)
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- Gnu archive site
body The main GNU FTP archive is on gnu.org but copies (“mirrors”) of some or all of the files there are also held on many other computers around the world. To avoid overloading gnu.org and the Internet you should FTP files from the machine closest to yours (you may be able to use traceroute to […]
- Gnu assembler
(GAS) A Unix assembler for the GNU project. Many CPU types are handled and COFF and IEEE-695 formats are supported as well as standard a.out. Current version 2.2 ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, i386, 386BSD, BSD/386, Linux, PS/2-AIX, VAX, Ultrix, BSD, VMS. The assembler has been merged with GNU Binutils. E-mail: . (1995-04-18)
- Gnu bc
A GNU version of BC which is self-contained and internally executes its own compiled code rather than acting as a front-end to DC like the standard Unix bc. Version 1.02 parser (yacc), interpreter, BC math library Philip A. Nelson FTP bc-1.02.tar.Z from a GNU archive site. requires: vsprintf and vfprintf routines ports: Unix (BSD, System […]
- Gnu c
language The extension of C compiled by gcc. (1997-09-30)
- Gnu c library
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