GNU Project: Difference between revisions

The first goal of the GNU project was to create a whole free-software operating system. By 1992, the GNU project had completed all of the major operating system components except for their kernel, [[GNU Hurd]]. The [[Linux kernel]], started independently by [[Linus Torvalds]] in 1991 filled the last gap, and Linux version 0.12 was released under the [[GPL]] in 1992. Together, Linux and GNU formed the first completely free-software operating system. Though the Linux kernel is not part of the GNU project, it was developed using [[GNU Compiler Collection|GCC]] and other gnu programming tools.