What is GNU?

[Bob Olsen <bobolsen@tao.ca>]

 Hi........

 Your tutorial http://www.debian.org/~hp/tutorial/debtut.txt
 states:

 
>     Please send comments about this manual to the Debian Documentation
>     Project mailing list <debian-doc@lists.debian.org>. We're especially
>     interested in whether it was helpful to you, and how we could make it
>     better. If you get confused while reading, or notice that we use a
>     term without explaining it first, please email us.

 You use the the term GNU.  I searched the document and could find
 no definition or explanation.  What is GNU or the GNU project?


>    this is especially handy if you
>    use X, in which case you can run several X sessions at once

 What is X?

 Thanks.....!!!!


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   Bob Olsen, Toronto            bobolsen@tao.ca
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