Free Software :: GNU Project

GNU Build & Runtime System

• GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) (cvs) (ml) (developers summit)
• crosstool (Collection of shell scripts to help build cross-development toolchains based on gcc, glibc, and Linux) (ml)
• GCC XML Node Introspector (Perl based XML interface for GCC to support meta programming techniques) (ml)
• GCC-XML (GCC extension to generate an XML description of a C++ program from GCC's internal representation) (ml)
• DistCC (Tool for distributing compilation work of C or C++ source code across several computers on a network) (cvs) (ml)
• GECC ("Group Enabled Cluster Compiler". Tool for distributing compilation work of C or C++ source code across several computers on a network.)
• SSP ("Stack Smashing Patch". GCC patch for protecting applications from stack-smashing attacks.)
• GCJ (Java compiler frontend for GCC) (cvs) (ml) (docs)
• Libc (Portable POSIX and ISO standard compliant C library) (cvs) (ml) (NPTL Native POSIX Thread Library. Project to improve the POSIX threading for the GNU C library and the Linux kernel) (deb)
• Libstdc++ (ISO 14882 standard compliant C++ library) (cvs) (ml) (docs)
• Libtool (Generic library support script) (cvs) (ml)
• Make (Tool for the control of the generation of executables and other non-source files via Makefile's) (cvs)
• Autoconf (Extensible package of m4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages) (cvs) (ml) (wp)
• Automake (Makefile.in's generating tool, used with Autoconf) (cvs) (ml) (wp)
• Binutils (Collection of 10+ essential binary utilities, like: ld, as, ar, strip, strings) (another homepage) (cvs) (ml)
• Bison (General-purpose parser generator that converts a grammar description for an LALR context-free grammar into a C program to parse that grammar) (ml)
• Flex (Fast lexical analyser generator)
• M4 (Featureful macro processor that copies its input to the output, expanding macros as it goes) (cvs) (development website)
• GDB (Debugger) (cvs) (ml) (CGDB Ncurses based interface to GDB) (cvs) (ml)
• uncc (C program decompiler) (cvs) (ml)
• Bash (The standard GNU command language interpreter) (ml) (programmable completion project) ("Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide")
• GNU Prolog (Prolog compiler) (ml)
• G95 (Fortran 95 compiler. FORTRAN was the first high-level computer programming language.)
• DotGNU (Decentralized and security focussed Internet application and authentication framework) (ml)
• HP-GCC (GCC based compiler for the HP49G+/HP48gii series of graphing calculators) (cvs) (ml)
• CVS (Concurrent version control system) (book) (CVS Client SSL Patch) (WinCVS M$ MFC based CVS client)
• DiffUtils (Collection of 4 console utilities for finding file differences: diff, diff3, patch and cmp.)

Other GNU Software

1. a2ps (Any to Postscript filter) (ml)
2. BusyBox (Collection of common utilities packed into a single and small executable) (cvs) (ml)
3. Bzip (Faster and better compression tool than Gzip, but with similar command-line flags)
4. Common C++ (High-level OS abstractions framework) (ccRTP Real Time Protocol implentation) (ccAudio Audio manipulation library) (ccScript Library for creating a virtual machine execution system)
5. CVS (Concurrent version control system) (book) (CVS Client SSL Patch) (WinCVS M$ MFC based CVS client)
6. DAP (Statistics tool)
7. DiffUtils (Collection of 4 console utilities for finding file differences: diff, diff3, patch and cmp.)
8. Emacs (Advanced and flexible LISP engine based text editor) (cvs) (ml)
9. FileUtils (Collection of 20+ essential system tools, like: cp, mv, chmod, chown, ls, ln)
10. FindUtils (Collection of useful search and indexing tools: find, locate, xargs, updatedb, frcode)
11. GAWK (Text filtering tool)
12. gcron (Cron replacement for 'Vixie cron' which aims to be more secure and still provide extra features. Alpha status.)
13. GMP (Library for arbitrary precision arithmetic operating on: signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers.) (ml)
14. gPhoto2 (Framework for managing digital camera's) (cvs) (ml) (deb)
15. GNOME (GNU Object Model Environment. A complete, portable and user-friendly graphical desktop environment and development toolkit)
16. GNUe (GNU Enterprise, project portal for business oriented software solutions) (cvs) (ml)
17. GNU Go (Text based, IGS/NNGS compatible, Go game client and server) (cvs) (ml)
18. GNUlpr (Print queue manager) (ml)
19. GnuTLS (TLS implementation, used for transport layer security, using encryption and authentication based on certificates) (cvs) (ml)
20. GnuPG (OpenPGP implementation, used for signing and encrypting documents) (cvs) (ml) (Seahorse (GNOME based front-end for GnuPG) (WinPT M$ w32 GnuPG interfaces, such as for GnuPG plugins for the Outlo*k and Eud*ra email clients) (pgpdump PGP packet visualizer which displays the packet format of OpenPGP data)
21. GnuPlot (Interactive 2D/3D plotting tool) (cvs) (ml)
22. Gnu Octave (A high-level interactive language for numerical computations) (cvs)
23. GNU Radio (Create, send, receive and render/play channel modulation waveforms trough software and a setup of DAC/ADC hardware.) (cvs) (ml)
24. GNU Readline (C library for use by applications that allow users to edit command lines as they are typed in)
25. GNU SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer implementation) (cvs)
26. GNUstep (Scheme based GUI application framework) (cvs) (ml)
27. GNU GRUB (Portable and advanced bootloader) (cvs) (ml) (wp)
28. GSL (GNU Scientific Library. A numerical library with a C and C++ API, which currently provides more than a 1000 mathematical functions.) (cvs) (ml)
29. Gzip (Compression tool designed to be a replacement for the compress tool)
30. The Hurd (A collection of servers that run on top of the GnuMach microkernel) (cvs) (ml) (references) (GnuMach cvs) (The Hurd/L4 initiative to use the L4 microkernel instead of GnuMach) (cvs) (ml)
31. Less (File viewer with forward and backward scrolling capability and pre-load file viewing)
32. Libgcrypt (General purpose cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG)
33. Man-db (An implementation of the standard Unix documentation system accessed using the man command. It uses a Berkeley DB database in place of the traditional flat-text whatis databases. (cvs)
34. Ncurses (Terminfo based curses library and development toolkit. The toolkit includes: the compiler tic, the decompiler infocmp, clear, tput, tset, and a termcap conversion tool called captoinfo.) (CDK Curses Development Kit - not a gnu project)
35. Ocrad (Optical character recognition tool)
36. Savannah (Free Software development portal. Savannah is a SourceForge codebase fork) (cvs)
37. Screen (Console windowing system) (ml) (deb)
38. Sed (Text filtering tool)
39. ShellUtils (Collection of 30+ console utilities commonly used within shell scripts or shell commands, like: echo, pwd, test, chroot, uname, who, whoami, nice, tee, date)
40. Tar (Utility to create, add, view and extract files of a '.tar' archive file)
41. TexInfo (Official documentation format of the GNU project, which uses makeinfo and Donald Knuth's TeX document typesetting system.) (ml)
42. TextUtils (Collection of 25+ console utilities commonly used for text manipulation, like: cat, cksum, sort, uniq, split, tail, head , wc, fmt, expand, unexpand, ...)
43. Time (Time runs another program, then displays information about the time-resources used by that program, collected by the system while the program was running)
44. Wget (Command-line utility to retrieve files via the HTTP or FTP protocol)
45. Zlib (Portable, lossless data compression library based on a "LZ77" compression algorithm variant called "deflation". License: Zlib license) (ml)
46. GPLFlash (A free player for SWF/Flash files) (cvs) (ml) (forum)