List of GNU packages

This list of GNU packages lists notable software packages developed for or maintained by the Free Software Foundation as part of the GNU project, a Unix-like computer operating system composed entirely of free software. Many of these software packages are used together with the Linux kernel to build complete computer operating systems.

Contents

Base system

Name Description Provides Version 1 Date 1
Bash GNU's UNIX compatible shell bash 4.2  (February 13, 2011; 11 months ago (2011-02-13))[1] 20-02-2009
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, od, pr, tsort, join, wc, tac, paste, etc.
shellutils: basename, chroot, date, dirname, echo, env, groups, hostname, nice, nohup, printf, sleep, etc.

 8.14  (October 12, 2011; 4 months ago (2011-10-12))[2] 12-10-2011
cpio archiving program cpio 2.11  (March 10, 2010; 22 months ago (2010-03-10))[3] 20-12-2004
diffutils contains utilies to compare files diff, cmp, diff3, sdiff 3.2 02-09-2011
findutils contains search utilities find, locate, xargs 4.2.28 05-8-2006
finger user information n/a 1.37 28-10-1992
grep search for strings in files grep 2.10 16-11-2011
groff document processing system (groff) groff 1.21  (December 31, 2010; 13 months ago (2010-12-31)) 4-9-2005
GRUB 2 GRand Unified Bootloader grub 1.99  (May 14, 2011; 8 months ago (2011-05-14)) 14-05-2011
gzip compression program (gzip) gzip ≥1.4  (January 20, 2010; 2 years ago (2010-01-20))[4] 13-4-2007
hurd 3 a microkernel-based set of servers that perform the same function as a UNIX kernel n/a 0.3 12-6-1997
inetutils useful utils for networking ftp, telnet, rsh, rlogin, tftp 1.9 31-12-2011
plotutils useful utils for plotting to different devices graph, libplot, libplotter 2.5 07-05-2006
readline useful library for reading command lines readline 6.2  (February 14, 2011; 11 months ago (2011-02-14))[5] 09-12-2005, 16-3-2006
screen a terminal multiplexer screen 4.0.3  (August 8, 2008; 3 years ago (2008-08-08)) 27-1-2004
tar Archiver able to create and handle file archives in various formats tar 1.26  (March 13, 2011; 10 months ago (2011-03-13)) 5-3-2009
texinfo documentation system for producing online and printed manuals n/a 4.13a  (September 22, 2008; 3 years ago (2008-09-22)) 26-9-2006
time program to determine the duration of execution of a particular command time 1.7 11-7-1996

Notes

  1. Stable versions. Note that some distros (e.g., Gentoo) use some development versions in case the stable versions are a bit old.
  2. Note that because GRUB is unstable, there is no stable version, although many distros use it as default.
  3. Note that because HURD is under active development, there is no stable version. Hurd is distributed through version control systems.

Development

  1. GNU build system – contains autoconf and automake
  2. Gnulib – portability library designed for use with the GNU build system
  3. GNU Binutils – contains the GNU assembler (as) and the GNU linker (ld)
  4. GNU make – the Make program for GNU
  5. GNU Compiler Collection – optimizing compiler for many programming languages, including C, C++, Fortran, Ada, and Java.
  6. Data Display Debugger – debugger front-end for several debuggers (ddd)
  7. GNU Debugger – an advanced debugger (gdb)
  8. GNU C Library (glibc) – POSIX compliant C library
  9. GNU pth – software threads for POSIX-compatible operating systems.
  10. GNU Libtool – Shared library support
  11. GNU libmicrohttpd – embeddable HTTP server
  12. GNU m4 – macro processor
  13. GNU gperf - perfect hash function generator
  14. GNU gettext – internationalization library
  15. GNU lightning – just-in-time compilation that generating machine language
  16. DotGNU – replacement for Microsoft .NET
  17. GNU Classpath – libraries for Java
  18. GNU bison – parser generator intended to replace yacc
  19. GNU Guile – embeddable Scheme interpreter (extension language)
  20. BFD – object file library
  21. GNU MDK – a development kit for programming in MIX
  22. GNU indent – a program to indent C and C++ source code.
  23. GNU FriBidi – a library that implements Unicode's Bidirectional Algorithm
  24. MIT/GNU Scheme – interpreter, compiler and library for the Scheme programming language developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  25. SmartEiffel – the GNU Eiffel compiler
  26. GNU Smalltalk – ANSI Smalltalk-98 implementation (interpreter and class library).
  27. CLISP – ANSI Common Lisp implementation (compiler, debugger, and interpreter)
  28. GNU Common Lisp – an implementation of Common Lisp
  29. Gawk – GNU awk implementation
  30. GNU Fontutils – font management utilities
  31. GNU cflow – generate C flow graph.
  32. GNU AutoGen – An active tier-style tool for automated code generation.

Graphical desktop

  1. GIMP – the GNU Image Manipulation Program is a bitmap image editor that is similar to Photoshop
  2. GTK+ – the GIMP Toolkit, contains the GTK+, GDK, and GLib set of libraries (used by the GIMP and GNOME)
  3. GNOME – the GNU Network Object Model Environment, the official GNU Desktop
    1. Dia – a vector graphics program for creating diagrams
  4. GNUstep – implementation of the Cocoa/OpenStep libraries and development tools for graphical applications
  5. Window Maker – the window manager for the GNUstep-environment

Applications and utilities

  1. Bazaar – distributed revision control system
  2. GNU arch – a distributed revision control system
  3. Gnash – player and browser plugin for the Adobe Flash file format
  4. 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
  5. GNU Anubis – outgoing mail processor that sits between the MUA (Mail User Agent) and the MTA (Mail Transport Agent)
  6. GNU Aspell – spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell
  7. GNU Accounting Utils – set of utilities providing statistics on users and processes (last, ac, accton, lastcomm, sa, dump-utmp, dump-acct)
  8. GnuCash – the GNU financial accounting application
  9. GNU Emacs – the Emacs editor of the GNU operating system
  10. GNU Health – The Free Health and Hospital Information System
  11. GNUmed – the medical practice management software
  12. Gnumeric – the GNU spreadsheet program
  13. GNU libextractor – metadata extraction library and tool
  14. GNU LilyPond – music typesetting application
  15. GNU mailman – a computer software application from the GNU Project for managing electronic mailing lists
  16. GNU Parted – Partitioning program
  17. GNU Parallel – build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel
  18. pexec – parallel execution of shell commands (on a single host or on multiple hosts involving SSH)
  19. GNU Privacy Guard – PGP encryption replacement
  20. GNU wget – advanced file retrieval from networks and the Internet
  21. GNUnet – decentralized, peer-to-peer communication network designed to be resistant to censorship
  22. GNU Robots – game for computer programmers
  23. GnuTLS – TLS replacement protocol
  24. GNU Typist – Universal (multi-lingual) typing tutor. The last release, version 2.9, has been released on Oct 31, 2011[6].
  25. Gnuzilla – Internet suite
  26. GNU Ferret – Free Entity Relationship and Reverse Engineering Tool. SQL database designer
  27. lsh – implementation of the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol version 2
  28. Ocrad – GNU Optical Character Recognition

Scientific software

Name Description Provides Version 1 Date 1
GNU Octave A program for numerical computations.
GSL The GNU Scientific Library
GMP arbitrary precision numerical calculation programming library
PSPP A statistical program that rivals SPSS
GNU R a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics
GNU Archimedes a TCAD software for semiconductor device simulations.

Games

  1. GNU Backgammon - A backgammon game
  2. GNUbik - A free software implementation of Rubiks Cube
  3. GNU Chess - A chess game engine for use with Xboard or similar
  4. GNU Go - An implementation of Go (game)
  5. Gnu Jump – Game where the goal is to climb a tower jumping the platforms trying not to fall down

Other

  1. GNU Miscfiles – several data files including standard airport, country, and language codes
  2. GnowSys – a kernel for semantic computing (a distributed agent oriented knowledge base.)
  3. Gnucap – the GNU Circuit Analysis Package
  4. Gnu Panorama – 3D Framework, ray tracing
  5. Gnu Sovix – PHP-based website revision system
  6. Gnu Maverik – Virtual Reality microkernel
  7. 3DLDF – graphics package
  8. GNU LibreDWG – Library for reading and writing .dwg files
  9. GNU dbm (or GDBM)
  10. GNU MediaGoblin – Decentralized media sharing

See also

References

  1. ^ Ramey, Chet (2011-02-16). "Bash-4.2 available for FTP". info-gnu mailing list. http://www.mail-archive.com/info-gnu@gnu.org/msg01139.html. Retrieved 2011-02-20. 
  2. ^ Meyering, Jim (2011-10-12). "[coreutils-announce] coreutils-8.14 released [stable]". coreutils-announce mailing list. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils-announce/2011-10/msg00000.html. Retrieved 2011-10-31. 
  3. ^ Poznyakoff, Sergey (2010-03-10). "cpio-2.11 released [stable]". info-gnu mailing list. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2010-03/msg00009.html. Retrieved 2010-03-21. 
  4. ^ Meyering, Jim (2010-01-20). "gzip-1.4 released [stable/security]". info-gnu mailing list. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2010-01/msg00016.html. Retrieved 2010-03-21. 
  5. ^ Ramey, Chet (2011-02-14). "Readline-6.2 available for FTP". info-gnu mailing list. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2011-02/msg00013.html. Retrieved 2011-05-20. 
  6. ^ « GNU Typist 2.9 released », lists.gnu.org, Oct 31, 2011.

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