The most noteworthy GNU packages on a typical GNU / Linux distribution: Bash: popular command line shell Binutils: tools for creating executable binaries in

The most noteworthy GNU packages on a typical GNU / Linux distribution: Bash: popular command line shell Binutils: tools for creating executable binaries including GNU ld, the linker, and GNU as, the assembler. Bison: widely-used parser generator; used to create parsers for programming languages CLISP: GNU implementation of Common Lisp programming language Coreutils: command line programs that implement large parts of the POSIX operating system standards Diffutils: provide diff, cmp, diff3, and sdiff utilities used to compare files and see their differences Emacs: powerful and extensible text editor fdisk: used to create disk partitions Findutils: includes find, locate, updatedb, and xargs command line programs Fontutils: programs for managing fonts Gawk: GNU implementation of AWK programming language GCC: the GNU Compiler Collection: GNU implmentations of C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, Ada, and Go. Probably most widely used set of tools in this list. The Linux kernel was originally developed using GCC and, for a while, could only be compiled with GCC. GDB: the GNU debugger; used to debug programs. Gettext: provides programming support text output in multiple human languages Ghostscript: GNU Postscript interpreter and PDF file support GIMP: image / graphics editing program GMP: arbitrary precision math libraries used in scientific computing GnuCOBOL: GNU implementation of COBOL programming language GnuPG: GNU Privacy Guard, an implementation of the OpenPGP cryptography standard GnuTLS: library that implements SSL, TLS, and DTLS cryptography protocols GRUB: bootloader that starts most Linux distributions glibc: GNU implementation of the C standard library GLS: the GNU Scientific Library for numerical analysis and scientific computing Guile: GNU implementation of Scheme programming language for use as a universal application plugin / extension system Guix: GNU package management system based on Nix Gzip: data compression and decompression less: GNU pager implementation Libtool: library for creating consistent and portable shared programming libraries make: widely-used build automation tool ncurses: library used to create text user interfaces (TUIs) Octave: GNU numerical computation system (MATLAB-ish clone) readline: library for command line input, editing, and history sed: GNU stream editor tar: GNU tape archive creation, extraction, editing command line utility termcap / termutils: database and programs for working with terminals in a portable way wget: file fetching utilities for the HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols There is also a ton of other applications: https://www.gnu.org/manual/blurbs.html https://www.gnu.org/manual/blurbs.html