List of GNU packages

A number of notable software packages were developed for, or are maintained by, the Free Software Foundation as part of the GNU Project.

Summarising the situation in 2013, Richard Stallman identified nine aspects which generally apply to being a GNU package,[1] but he noted that exceptions and flexibility are possible when there are good reasons:[2] There is no official "base system" of the GNU operating system.

GNU was designed to be a replacement for Unix operating systems of the 1980s and used the POSIX standards as a guide, but either definition would give a much larger "base system".

Inclusions (such as plotutils) and exclusions (such as the C standard library) are of course debatable.

The following packages provide GUI desktop environments, window managers, and associated graphics libraries.