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Who runs GNU, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest free software project alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Linux kernel
Measured from GNU’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit GNU01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs GNU
GNU gnu.org
Since 1983, developing the free Unix style operating system GNU, so that computer users can have the freedom to share and improve the software they use.
Wikidata: Unix-like operating system
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What GNU tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 19 alternatives below has fewer; 5 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on GNU’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to GNU
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to GNU, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
The Linux Kernel Archives
Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems
Very close - 02
Debian -- The Universal Operating System
Debian is an operating system and a distribution of Free Software. It is maintained and updated through the work of many users who volunteer their time and effort.
Very close - 03
The FreeBSD Project
free Unix-like operating system
Very close - 04
The NetBSD Project
Very close - 05
Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation
American nonprofit open-source software community
Very close - 06
Open Source Initiative – The steward of the Open Source Definition, setting the foundation for the Open Source Software ecosystem.
The steward of the Open Source Definition, setting the foundation for the Open Source Software ecosystem.
Close - 07 Very close
- 08
Open Source Cloud Computing Infrastructure - OpenStack
Deployed by thousands. Proven production at scale. OpenStack is a set of software components that provide common services for cloud infrastructure.
Very close - 09
Welcome to Python.org
The official home of the Python Programming Language
Very close - 10
Welcome – Gentoo Linux
The website of Gentoo, a flexible Linux distribution.
Very close - 11
desktop environment and graphical user interface
Very close - 12 Very close
- 13
Wikimedia
The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.
Very close - 14
Xfce Desktop Environment
Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.
Very close - 15
Joomla Content Management System (CMS) - try it! It's free!
Joomla! is the mobile-ready and user-friendly way to build your website. Choose from thousands of features and designs. Joomla! is free and open source.
Very close - 16
TYPO3 Project and Governance — Democratic Open Source - TYPO3 Project
The TYPO3 project is a volunteer community backed by a not-for-profit member association, and a fully-owned service company.
Very close - 17
The CentOS Project
Linux distribution
Very close - 18
The Perl Programming Language - www.perl.org
The Perl Programming Language at Perl.org. Links and other helpful resources for new and experienced Perl programmers.
Very close - 19
Home - KDE Community
KDE is an open community of friendly people who want to create a world in which everyone has control over their digital life and enjoys freedom and privacy.
Very close - 20
VLC: Official site - Free multimedia solutions for all OS! - VideoLAN
VLC: Official site - Free multimedia solutions for all OS!
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles GNU’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones GNU uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what GNU adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 1 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 35 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to GNU’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on gnu.org 17/20
- Google Workspace · not on gnu.org 7/20
- nginx · not on gnu.org 6/20
- Apache HTTP Server 6/20
- jQuery · not on gnu.org 6/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on gnu.org 5/20
- Bootstrap · not on gnu.org 5/20
- Font Awesome · not on gnu.org 4/20
- Fastly · not on gnu.org 4/20
- PHP · not on gnu.org 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on gnu.org 3/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on gnu.org 3/20
- Cloudflare · not on gnu.org 3/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on gnu.org 3/20
- Google Fonts · not on gnu.org 3/20
- Matomo · not on gnu.org 2/20