list of gnu packages

This is a list of the 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.

Base system

GNU fileutils - contains UNIX compatible commands: chgrp, chown, chmod, cp, dd, df, dir, du, ln, ls, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, rm etc.
GNU textutils - contains UNIX compatible commands: cat, cksum, head, tail, md5sum, nl, oc, pr, tsort, join, wc, tac, paste etc.
GNU shellutils - contains UNIX compatible commands: basename, chroot, date, dirname, echo, env, groups, hostname, nice, nohup, printf, sleep etc.

GNU cpio - archiving program
GNU diffutils - contains utilies to compare files
GNU findutils - contains search utilities
GNU finger - user information
GNU fontutils - font management utilites
GNU tar - tape archiving program (tar)
GNU grep - search for strings in files
GNU troff - document processing system (groff)
GNU zip - compression program (gzip)
GNU inetutils - contains UNIX compatible commands: ftp, telnet, rsh, rlogin, tftp
GNU readline - library useful for reading command lines
GNU screen - a terminal multiplexer
GNU texinfo - documentation system for producing online and printed manuals
GNU time - program for setting the computer clock
GNU GRUB - GRand Unified Bootloader
GNU Hurd - a microkernel-based set of servers that perform the same function as a UNIX kernel

GNU build system - contains Autoconf, Autogen, and Automake
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 libc - POSIX compliant C library for GNU/Hurd and GNU/Linux
GNU pth - software threads for UNIX compatible OSes
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
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

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

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 stats 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 - Partitionning program
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 - small but addictive game for computer programmers