GNU
Last Updated: 2023-09-18
Some key points:
- GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix!"
- GNU's design is Unix-like, but differs from Unix by being free software and containing no Unix code.
- The "free software" concept originated from the GNU project.
- Most of GNU is licensed under the General Public License (GPL).
GNU Bash shell (Bash)
Read more: Bash
GNU C library (glibc)
The GNU C Library.
GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)
For building C / C++.
GNU Core Utilities (coreutils)
The GNU Core Utilities or coreutils is a package of GNU software containing implementations for many of the basic tools, such as cat, ls, and rm.
On mac:
$ brew install coreutils ed findutils gawk gnu-sed gnu-tar grep make
GNU Debugger (GDB)
A portable debugger.
GNU Binary Utilities (binutils)
A set of programming tools for creating and managing binary programs, object files, libraries, profile data, and assembly source code.
GNOME
Read more: Linux - Desktop Environment
GIMP: GNU Image Manipulation Program
A free and open-source raster graphics editor.
Packages and Binraries
coreutils:[,b2sum,base32,base64,basename,basenc,cat,chcon,chgrp,chmod,chown,chroot,cksum,comm,cp,csplit,cut,date,dd,df,dir,dircolors,dirname,du,echo,env,expand,expr,factor,false,fmt,fold,groups,head,hostid,id,install,join,kill,link,ln,logname,ls,md5sum,mkdir,mkfifo,mknod,mktemp,mv,nice,nl,nohup,nproc,numfmt,od,paste,pathchk,pinky,pr,printenv,printf,ptx,pwd,readlink,realpath,rm,rmdir,runcon,seq,sha1sum,sha224sum,sha256sum,sha384sum,sha512sum,shred,shuf,sleep,sort,split,stat,stdbuf,stty,sum,sync,tac,tail,tee,test,timeout,touch,tr,true,truncate,tsort,tty,uname,unexpand,uniq,unlink,uptime,users,vdir,wc,who,whoami,yesbinutils:ld(the GNU linker),as(the GNU assembler),gold(a new, faster, ELF only linker),gprof(profiler),nm(list symbols exported by object file) etc.ed:ed,redgawk:awkgrep:egrep,fgrep,grepgnu-sed:sedgnu-tar:tarmake:makefindutils:find,locate,updatedb,xargs