List of GNU packages
Base system
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".

List of GNU packages

Section Title: Base system
Table Section Text: 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".

Name	Description	Provides	Version

bash	GNU's UNIX compatible shell	bash	5.0 (January 7, 2019; 3 months ago) [±]

coreutils	base commands	fileutils: chgrp, chown, chmod, cp, dd, df, dir, du, ln, ls, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, rm, etc. textutils: cat, cksum, head, tail, md5sum, nl, od, pr, tsort, join, wc, tac, paste, etc.	8.31 (March 10, 2019; 36 days ago) [±]

cpio	archiving program	cpio	2.12 (September 12, 2015; 3 years ago) [±]

diffutils	contains utilities to compare files	diff, cmp, diff3, sdiff	3.2 (September 2, 2011)

findutils	contains search utilities	find, locate, updatedb, xargs	4.6.0 (December 28, 2015; 3 years ago) [±]

finger	user information	n/a	1.37, (October 28, 1992)

grep	search for strings in files	grep	2.10, (November 16, 2011)

groff	document processing system (groff)	groff	1.22.2 (February 7, 2013; 6 years ago) [±]

GRUB	GRand Unified Bootloader	grub	2.02 (GRUB2) (April 26, 2017; 23 months ago) [±]

gzip	compression program (gzip)	gzip	1.7 (28 March 2016; 3 years ago) [±]

hurd	microkernel-based set of servers that perform the same function as a UNIX kernel	n/a	0.7, (October 31, 2015)

inetutils	useful utils for networking	ftp, telnet, rsh, rlogin, tftp	1.9.4, (June 10, 2015)

linux-libre	kernel that is maintained from modified versions of Linux to remove any software that does not include its source code, has its source code obfuscated, or is released under proprietary licenses	n/a	4.13.10-gnu, (October 28, 2017)

plotutils	useful utils for plotting to different devices	graph, libplot, libplotter	2.6, (September 27, 2009)

readline	useful library for reading command lines	readline	6.2 (February 14, 2011; 8 years ago) [±]

screen	a terminal multiplexer	screen	4.6.2 (October 23, 2017; 17 months ago) [±]

sysutils	system utilities to manage users, groups, passwords, shells	add-shell, chage, chfn, chgroup, chgrpmem, chpasswd, chsh, chuser, cppw, expiry, gpasswd, grpck, gshadow, hwclock, isosize, last, lastlog, login, lsage, lsgroup, lsuser, mkgroup, mkuser, nologin, passwd, pwck, remove-shell, rmgroup, rmuser, setpwnam, vipw, wall, write	0.1.6 (2009)

tar	archiver able to create and handle file archives in various formats	tar	1.29 (May 16, 2016; 2 years ago) [±]

texinfo	documentation system for producing online and printed manuals	n/a	6.4 (23 June 2017; 21 months ago) [±]

time	program to determine the duration of execution of a particular command	time	1.8, (November 11, 2017)

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Inetutils of GNU includes telnet.
Inetutils of GNU includes telnet.

final_sentence: Inetutils of GNU includes telnet.
final_sentence: Inetutils of GNU includes telnet.