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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.

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01 · 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

No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to GNU match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

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 and search numbers · 1 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,209
Vector: 384-d
Query: 60 ms

Built with

Web servers: Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache

Sitemaps

, 5 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.