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What does GNU stands for?

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GNU is an operating system composed of free software. This operating system also has an icon which is a gnu,wildebeest head.

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GNU definition from gnu.org:

The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like operating system which is free software: the GNU operating system.

after some research i came to know GNU acronym is "GNU's not Unix" here GNU stands for "Genuinely Not Unix" Operating System.

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