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I'm about to revert the second paragraph for the second time. An anonymous contributor 151.203.49.181 has been changing the second paragraph to say that the GNU project "unable to create a quality kernel useful for the masses", although this is true, it is also true that the GNU project cannot fly. The reason these two facts don't deserve a mention in the second paragraph are that neither was the goal of the GNU project. The goal was to make a free software operating system exist. By circumstance, this required writing a c compiler, and a standard c library, and a debugger, but, also by circumstance, it did not involve writing a kernel, or being able to fly.
My first revert of the anon's changes was referred to as "vandalism" in the anon's second edit summary, so I've explained myself here. Gronky 21:07, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Just because the work on Hurd has been slow and buggy doesn't mean the effort isn't underway. If it isn't the intention of GNU/FSF to create their own kernel, why does development of Hurd continue after all these years?
-.Probably 90% of all opensource projects are either in direct competition with another project, have no obvious use given other free software available, or are too ambitious to ever be finished; but this doesn't stop people working on them, 'for fun'. Hurd falls into the last catagory. Hurd aims to improve on unix-like kernels, by using a 'micro kernel', with drivers being written seperatly, and sitting in an abstraction layer above this, allowing for easier driver development and deployment, though the glacial pace of development means that it may well be a very long time before it is completed. 213.120.94.110 14:58, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
I think this should be merged into GNU. This article doesn't have enough info on the technical side, and GNU is a bit thin on the politics (though to a lesser degree); with the FSF these two issues are inextricably linked. Superm401 - Talk 02:09, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
No Merge There is much discussion on Talk:GNU on why the articles should be separate. It is a very wise idea to review both Talk pages before adding the merge templates. Merges have often been proposed in the past.
This article GNU Project and GNU are both candidates for the 2006 WP CD. Be good to have the CD and Web versions the same here. See the box at the top of this Talk:GNU_Project page and the the box at the top of the Talk:GNU page.
Leave them separate. They are distinct topics. Beef both up. Lentower 19:04, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
No merge - the operating system is just one milestone in the GNU project. Gronky 13:42, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Staff_and_employees_of_the_Free_Software_Foundation.
This new article started as a section in the FSF article, and was split off with no rationale, discussion, or consensus by User:Chealer (talk|contribs) .
The editors of this GNU article could have good points to make on this AfD. Lentower 19:09, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
The way the article is currently written, it is not clear to me if the GNU project is still active. The original goal is achieved. If the project is active, what are the goals today? Is the "GNU Project" really a project, in the usual sense? --HelgeStenstrom 12:07, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
It seems to correspond to [be implemented by] a little snip of code that says:
((portalpar|Free software|Floss draft.png))
My browser is Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.11. My comment is that, unless I use "Ctrl Minus" to lower the font sizes to be so microscopic that they are hard to read, some of the characters (e.g., the characters of the left-side phrase ,which I think is supposed to say "Portal: Free Software"), do not show up. (and then, as for the stuff that is supposed to go on the Right-Hand Side - that does show up correctly - and it says, admittedly sorta redundantly, "Free Software Portal"); There seems to be some kind of overlapping phenomenon going on, that I do not understand. I don't know a lot about this stuff. In this case I suspect that it might be mainly a matter of how this wiki, implements some of the "double braces" stuff, like the snip shown above. I am not saying that this is a big deal, just that someone might want to look in to it. It might even be due to something that is occurring on my end, - if so you can let me know (reply here, I guess). Thanks for listening, Mike Schwartz 03:59, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
Search in the body of the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.59.108.89 (talk) 13:56, August 30, 2007 (UTC)
Is the GNU image an official logo of the GNU project? If so, is there any reason it doesn't appear in the article (other than hidden inside a collapsible template at the bottom?) — Tivedshambo (t/c) 06:00, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
I just read that "bazaar" became part of the GNU-Project but without being published under the GPL. I was suprized, because I thought that the GPL is what makes Software "GNU-Software". I consulted this Wikipedia-Page but didn't find my question clearly answered. Perhaps, a paragraph answering it should be added. -- 91.3.70.6
91.3.70.6 (talk) 23:44, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
So, it probably makes sense asking WHO the Gnu Project is. (Is it the members of the FSF?) That's a concept quite different from what I had. (Excuse me: I don't want my questions answered her. I could find out myself. I'm just trying to give an idea, why I found the definition, appart from "mass collaboration", insufficient.) -- 91.3.70.6
91.3.117.200 (talk) 06:13, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
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GNU has also played a big role in setting an example for other projects.
The Qt toolkit being released as free software was clearly due to pressure from GNU. FreeBSD was also influenced, according to Keith Bostic:
"I think it's highly unlikely that we ever would have gone as strongly as we did without the GNU influence," says Bostic, looking back. "It was clearly something where they were pushing hard and we liked the idea."
Not yet sure how and where to mention this, but I wanted to note it here. Gronky (talk) 23:36, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
Two things:
LiberalArtist (talk) 20:06, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
Last sentence of the part GNU Manifesto reads:
Some complications arose, however, when certain software was grandfathered in the law of GPL because of code from which it derived.
I am translating this article to Turkish and I did not understand the sentence above. I think it is vague. I could not understand and elaborate looking at the reference because it is a book which I do not have access to. Nor I could find any information about the complications in the main article GNU Manifesto.
Can anyone provide information please? Thanks.
Ali Polatel (talk) 19:06, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
GNU, GNU Image Manipulation Program, Gnome, ...
Stallman has no G in his name neither does MIT or Berkley.
I'd previously thought "George Washington university project" or something.
What is the G from? GNU is Not Unix is not recursive without G.
GNUe is not a high priority project for GNU, just a GNU package which is currently not maintained. I suggest to change the redirected page to List_of_GNU_packages#Business_applications. genium ⟨✉⟩ 08:25, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy
By citing the name Linux as erroneous you are bringing controversy into this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.180.46.247 (talk) 05:30, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
It feels kinda strange to me that a sentence "Combined with the operating system utilities already developed by the GNU project, it allowed for the first operating system that was free software, commonly known as Linux" has two footnotes and both actually refer to the operating system as "GNU/Linux" (with the kernel FAQ one even explicitely stating that Linux is a kernel, while GNU/Linux is a OS) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.254.1.82 (talk) 04:14, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
None of the recent history between Free Software Foundation and GNU is mentioned in this article. Why not? Erxnmedia (talk) 15:50, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
It's just an honor for the GNU Project, not a direct relevant part of it. Alternative to removal: move to Recognition. Thoughts? In particular, @Daveout? Amyipdev (talk) 02:15, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
Daveout
(talk) 02:26, 8 October 2022 (UTC)I'll wait for a while for potential opposition, then I'll move forward with removal. Amyipdev (talk) 05:54, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
shows information about
"All Italian-Language Schools in South Tyrol Migrated to Free Software"
and
"Every line of code developed as part of the FUSS Project is distributed under a GPLv3 or AGPLv3 license, and all documentation is available under a CC BY-SA license."
but
or
https://iso.fuss.bz.it/fuss12/client/fuss-12-amd64-live-education-20240330.iso
as I can not get the archive.org one,
has a non-free firmware code folder in it.
Does this mean GNU is now accepting non-free/proprietary firmware in microcode or is this folder just named non-free-firmware, or was this just a text about schools in South Tyrol using mostly but not completely libre software?
You can get these files with the program wget or with a browser.
The folder is at /pool/non-free-firmware/
in the iso image.
You can see it in the ios file with a program like Engrampa.