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The '''GNU Project''' is a free software project.
see: [[wikipedia: GNU Project]] for more information.

==List of GNU packages==
This is an incomplete list of notable software packages developed for or maintained by the Free Software Foundation for GNU, a free Unix-compatible operating system. Many of these software packages are today included as part of typical GNU/Linux distributions.

==Base system==
{| style="font-size: 85%; text-align: center;" class="wikitable"
! Name
! style="width:200px" | Description
! style="width:200px" | Provides
! Version [[#Notes|1]]
! Date [[#Notes|1]]
|-
| [[Bourne-Again shell|Bash]]
| GNU's UNIX compatible shell
| bash
| 3.2
| 11-10-2006
|-
| [[coreutils]]
| Base commands
| '''fileutils''': [[chgrp]], [[chown]], [[chmod]], [[cp (Unix)|cp]], [[dd (Unix)|dd]], [[df (Unix)|df]], [[dir]], [[du (Unix)|du]], [[ln (Unix)|ln]], [[ls]], [[mkdir]], [[mkfifo]], [[mknod]], [[mv]], [[rm (Unix)|rm]] etc. 
'''textutils''': [[cat (Unix)|cat]], [[cksum]], [[head (Unix)|head]], [[Tail (Unix)|tail]], [[md5sum]], [[nl (Unix)|nl]], [[oc (Unix)|oc]], [[pr (Unix)|pr]], [[tsort]], [[join (Unix)|join]], [[wc (Unix)|wc]], [[tac]], [[paste (Unix)|paste]] etc. 
'''shellutils''': [[basename]], [[chroot]], [[date (Unix)|date]], [[basename|dirname]], [[echo (computing)|echo]], [[env]], [[Group identifier (Unix)|groups]], [[hostname]], [[nice (Unix)|nice]], [[nohup]], [[printf]], [[sleep (Unix)|sleep]] etc.
| 6.3
| 30-9-2006
|-
| [[cpio]]
| archiving program
| cpio
| 2.6
| 20-12-2004
|-
| [[diffutils]]
| contains utilies to compare files
| [[diff]], [[cmp]], [[diff3]], [[sdiff]]
| 2.8.1
| 06-4-2002
|-
| [[findutils]]
| contains search utilities
| [[find]], [[locate]], [[xargs]]
| 4.2.28
| 05-8-2006
|-
| [[Finger protocol|finger]]
| user information
| n/a
| 1.37
| 28-10-1992
|-
| [[fontutils]]
| font management utilities
| n/a
| 0.7
| 02-4-2002
|-
| [[grep]]
| search for strings in files
| grep
| 2.5.1a
| 19-11-2004
|-
| [[groff]]
| document processing system (groff)
| groff
| 1.19.2
| 4-9-2005
|-
| [[GNU GRUB|GRUB]] [[#Notes|2]]
| GRand Unified Bootloader
| grub
| 1.94
| 04-6-2006
|-
| [[gzip]]
| compression program (gzip)
| gzip
| 1.2.4a
| 05-9-1999
|-
| [[hurd]]
| a [[microkernel]]-based set of servers that perform the same function as a UNIX kernel
| n/a
| 0.2?
| 12-6-1997
|-
| [[inetutils]]
| useful utils for networking
| [[File Transfer Protocol|ftp]], [[telnet]], [[rsh]], [[rlogin]], [[tftp]]
| 1.4.2
| 23-12-2002
|-
| [[plotutils]]
| useful utils for plotting to different devices
| [[graph]], [[libplot]], [[libplotter]]
| 2.5
| 07-05-2006
|-
| [[readline]]
| useful library for reading command lines
| readline
| 5.1_p4
| 09-12-2005, 16-3-2006
|-
| [[GNU_Screen|screen]]
| a terminal multiplexer
| screen
| 4.0.2
| 27-1-2004
|-
| [[tar]]
| Archiver able to creates and handles file archives in various formats
| tar
| 1.16
| 21-10-2006
|-
| [[texinfo]]
| documentation system for producing online and printed manuals
| n/a
| 4.8a
| 26-9-2006
|-
| [[time (Unix)|time]]
| program to determine the duration of execution of a particular command
| time
| 1.7
| 11-7-1996
|-
|}

===Notes===
# Stable versions. Note that some distros (e.g [[Gentoo Linux|Gentoo]]) use some development versions in case the stable versions are a bit old.
# Note that [[GRUB]] does not have a stable version, since the program itself is unstable, although many distros use it as default.

==Development==
#[[GNU build system]] - contains [[autoconf]], [[autogen]], and [[automake]]
#[[Gnulib]] - portability library designed for use with the GNU build system
#[[GNU Binutils]] - contains the GNU assembler (as) and the GNU linker (ld)
#GNU [[make]] - the Make program for GNU
#[[GNU Compiler Collection]] - optimizing [[compiler]] for many [[programming language]]s, including [[C (programming language)|C]], [[C++]], [[Fortran]], [[Ada programming language|Ada]], and [[Java (programming language)|Java]].
#[[GNU Debugger]] - an advanced [[debugger]] (gdb)
#[[GNU C Library]] (glibc) - [[POSIX]] compliant [[C standard library|C library]] for GNU/Hurd and GNU/Linux
#[[GNU pth]] - software threads for [[POSIX]]-compatible operating systems.
#GNU [[libtool]] - Shared library support
#[[GNU m4]] - macro processor
#GNU [[Gettext]] - internationalization library
#[[DotGNU]] - replacement for [[Microsoft .NET]]
#[[GNU Classpath]] - libraries for [[Java (programming language)|Java]]
#[[GNU bison]] - [[parser generator]] intended to replace [[yacc]]
#[[GNU Guile]] - embeddable [[Scheme (programming language)|Scheme]] [[interpreter (computing)|interpreter]]
#[[Binary File Descriptor|BFD]] - object file [[Library (computer science)|library]]
#[[GNU MDK]] - a development kit for programming in [[MIX]]
#[[GNU indent]] - a program to indent C and C++ source code.
#[[GNU FriBidi]] - a library that implements [[Unicode]]'s [[Bi-directional text|Bidirectional Algorithm]]
#[[MIT/GNU Scheme]] - interpreter, compiler and library for the [[Scheme (programming language)|Scheme programming language]] developed at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]].
#[[SmartEiffel]] - the GNU [[Eiffel (programming language)|Eiffel]] compiler
#[[GNU Smalltalk]] - [[American National Standards Institute|ANSI]] [[Smalltalk]]-98 implementation (interpreter and class library).
#[[CLISP]] - [[American National Standards Institute|ANSI]] [[Common Lisp]] implementation (compiler, debugger, and interpreter)
#[[GNU Common Lisp]] - an implementation of Common Lisp

==Graphical Desktop==
#[[GIMP]] - the GNU Image Manipulation Program is a bitmap image editor that rivals [[Photoshop]]
#[[GTK+]] - the GIMP Toolkit, contains the GTK+, GDK, and GLib set of libraries (used by the GIMP and GNOME)
#[[GNOME]] - the GNU Network Object Model Environment, the official GNU Desktop
#[[GNUstep]] - implementation of the [[OpenStep]] libraries and development tools for graphical applications

==Applications and utilities==
#[[GNU Alexandria]] - package of the GNU system that makes use of GNU Bayonne to provide a means to deliver access to electronic content and services for the blind over the public telephone network from a GNU/Linux server
#[[GNU Anubis]] - outgoing mail processor that sits between the MUA ([[Mail User Agent]]) and the MTA ([[Mail Transport Agent]])
#[[GNU Aspell]] - spell checker designed to eventually replace [[Ispell]]
#GNU Accounting Utils - set of utilities providing statistics on users and processes for GNU/Linux (last, ac, accton, lastcomm, sa, dump-utmp, dump-acct)
#[[GNU Bayonne]] - Multi-line telephony services
#[[GNU Emacs]] - the Emacs editor of the GNU operating system
#[[GNU Parted]] - Partitioning program
#[[GNU Privacy Guard]] - [[Pretty Good Privacy|PGP]] encryption replacement
#GNU [[wget]] - advanced file retrieval from networks and the Internet
#[[GNUnet]] - decentralized, peer-to-peer communication network designed to be resistant to censorship
#[[GNU Robots]] - game for computer programmers
#[[GnuTLS]] - [[Transport Layer Security|TLS]] replacement protocol
#[[GNU Typist]] Universal (multi-lingual) typing tutor

==Scientific software==
#[[GNU Octave]] - a program for numerical computations similar to [[MATLAB]]
#[[GNU Scientific Library|GSL]] - the GNU Scientific Library
#[[GNU Multi-Precision Library|GMP]] - [[arbitrary precision]] numerical calculation programming [[Library (computer science)|library]]
#[[Maxima]] - a [[computer algebra system]]
#[[PSPP]] - a Free version of SPSS, a program for statistical analysis.
#[[GNU data language|GDL]] - GNU data language, compatible with [[IDL programming language|IDL]]

==Other==
#[[GNU Miscfiles]] - several data files including standard airport, country, and language codes
#[[GNU Chess]]
#[[GNU Go]]
#[[GnowSys]] - a kernel for semantic computing (a distributed agent oriented knowledge base.)
#[[Gnucap]] - the GNU Circuit Analysis Package
#[[Gnu Panorama]] - 3D Framework, ray tracing
#[[Gnu Maverik]] - Virtual Reality microkernel

==External links==
*[http://www.gnu.org/directory/GNU/ FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory - All GNU Packages]

[[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]

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