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Old January 13th, 2023 #1
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Default What Is the GNU System?

One can not overstate the importance of Free Software (not "freeware") to undermining the (((powerful interests))) that dominate Big Tech and thus our economy.

What Is the GNU System?

GNU is a modern, commercial-grade operating system constituted of software components that respect the freedoms of computing device users. Most readers will have heard of the GNU System, but they will have heard of it as "Linux". Which is a complete misnomer. Linux is the kernel, GNU is the operating system.

A few months ago, the GNU Project celebrated the 43th anniversary of its . . . read more
 
Old March 6th, 2023 #2
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The goal of the (((regime))) is to control all the code: language, the law, technology, even our DNA. We must prevent this.

The best way to stop them from controlling technology (software code) is to use Free Software. The GNU operating system is at the heart of this movement.
 
Old May 15th, 2023 #3
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What Is the GNU System?

(Author's note: The following is part of a semi-regular series on Free Software. The importance of which, to White Rights Advocacy, can not be overstated. To learn why Free Software is so important to our struggle, read the first article in the series: "What Is Free Software?")

GNU is a modern, commercial-grade operating system constituted of software components that respect the freedoms of computing device users. Most readers will have heard of the GNU System, but they will have heard of it as "Linux". Which is a complete misnomer. Linux is the kernel, GNU is the operating system.

A few months ago, the GNU Project celebrated the 43th anniversary of its founder Richard Stallman's announcement -- in a Unix newsgroup -- of his intention to build a complete, free operating system. The canonical tale tells of Stallman's desire to fix a printer driver and being denied access to the source code. As the story goes, the refusal by the author of the printer driver to share the source so incensed Stallman that he launched the project to build the GNU System.

The experienced hacker made three fateful, early decisions about his system, 1. it would be built using Free Software, 2. it would be modeled after Unix, (because of its popularity at the time). Hence the name (using a common convention in hacker circles, recursion), GNU's Not Unix (GNU) -- the word "GNU's" is a contraction of "GNU is" -- and 3. to put off coding the kernel, because he believed he could use another kernel already in development.

Soon, he set out to build the basic components. Because he (and others) had already written the system's text editor (Emacs) he focused on the compiler, GCC; the core utilities, coreutils; and a handful of other programs. Importantly, he also took the time to write the guiding document of the project, the General Public License (GPL), which ensures that the system's software will always remain free.

Within a few years a young hacker, Brian Fox, began work on the system's shell. Which -- because it would be a compatible superset of the standard Unix shell written by Stephen Bourne -- he called the Bourne-Again Shell, or bash. The shell proved to be so popular that it is not only the default shell for GNU but for many other Unices, including Mac OS X.

After almost a decade of development and still without a kernel, a computer science student in Finland, Linus Torvalds, announced his desire to build a Unixoid system that would run on the personal computer clones that had recently become popular. Because he chose to release his kernel under the GNU GPL, it, Linux, became the default kernel of the GNU OS.

But it's not the only kernel. (Part of what differentiates GNU from all other operating systems is its flexibility, which extends right down to the kernel level. Because GNU was created to ensure users' freedoms, one has the ability, to not only modify every component of the system [even the kernel] but, to replace it with another.) GNU developers have been busy with writing their own kernel. They chose a microkernel design and are currently writing the protocols and services to go with their version of the Mach microkernel. They call it Hurd. Although they have a ways to go (and they could use your help), version 0.5 was released just last week.

The only thing left to do was build a package manager and distribute the system in aggregate. GNU Guix was launched at the end of last year to do just that. The maintainer's road map indicates that the project will be self-bootable (ready for mainstream use) by the end of this year.

See "GuixSD: The Most Important 'Linux' Distribution, You've Never Heard Of"

(Editor's note: This entry was originally published in January 2014. It was revised, expanded, and updated in May 2019, and again in January 2022.)
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Old October 2nd, 2023 #4
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Software freedom will be a core principle of the coming Aryan Society, and it will be founded on the GNU operating system.
 
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