Z:gnu-www-ja-gnu-history--7f71b2-A Unix-like operating system i/en

A Unix-like operating system includes a kernel, compilers, editors, text formatters, mail software, graphical interfaces, libraries, games and many other things. Thus, writing a whole operating system is a very large job. We started in January 1984. The  Free Software Foundation was founded in October 1985, initially to raise funds to help develop GNU.