List of GNU packages

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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 whose development started in 1984. Many of these software packages are today included as part of typical GNU/Linux distributions.

1 Base system
- 1.1 Notes
2 Development
3 Graphical Desktop
4 Applications and utilities
5 Scientific software
6 Other
7 See also
8 External links

[edit] Base system

Name	Description	Provides	Version ¹	Date ¹
Bash	GNU's UNIX compatible shell	bash	3.2	11-10-2006
coreutils	Base commands	fileutils: chgrp, chown, chmod, cp, dd, df, dir, du, ln, ls, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, rm etc. textutils: cat, cksum, head, tail, md5sum, nl, oc, pr, tsort, join, wc, tac, paste etc. shellutils: basename, chroot, date, dirname, echo, env, groups, hostname, nice, nohup, printf, 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	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
GRUB 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	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
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	program to determine the duration of execution of a particular command	time	1.7	11-7-1996

[edit] Notes

Stable versions. Note that some distros (e.g 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.

[edit] 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 languages, including C, C++, Fortran, Ada, and Java.
GNU Debugger - an advanced debugger (gdb)
GNU C Library (glibc) - POSIX compliant 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
GNU bison - parser generator intended to replace yacc
GNU Guile - embeddable Scheme interpreter
BFD - object file 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 Bidirectional Algorithm
MIT/GNU Scheme - interpreter, compiler and library for the Scheme programming language developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
SmartEiffel - the GNU Eiffel compiler
CLISP - ANSI Common Lisp implementation (compiler, debugger, and interpreter)
GNU Common Lisp - an implementation of Common Lisp

[edit] 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

[edit] 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 - 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 - TLS replacement protocol
GNU Typist Universal (multi-lingual) typing tutor

[edit] Scientific software

GNU Octave - a program for numerical computations similar to MATLAB
GSL - the GNU Scientific Library
GMP - arbitrary precision numerical calculation programming library
Maxima - a computer algebra system
PSPP - a Free version of SPSS, a program for statistical analysis.
GDL - GNU data language, compatible with IDL

[edit] 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