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<h2 class="unnumbered">The GNU Project and GNU/Linux</h2>
<p>The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like
operating system which is free software: the GNU system. (GNU is a
recursive acronym for “GNU's Not Unix”; it is pronounced
“guh-NEW”.) Variants of the GNU operating system, which use the
kernel Linux, are now widely used; though these systems are often
referred to as “Linux”, they are more accurately called GNU/Linux
systems.
<p>For more information, see:
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