Hello, I have a very stupid question but it would be very nice if somebody can answer my question: What is GNU ++ and/or GNU? Is there a different to C++? I would be very pleased about an answer, many thanks

The GNU Project is a project that aims to develop a complete Unix-like operating system which is free software: the GNU system.

As a part of the GNU Project, a free compiler suite is actively being developed, called GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection. It includes support for many languages: C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java and Chill.

For more info, see http://www.gnu.org/

Erik

If you are thinking g++, that is the C++ version of the gcc compiler, which used to stand for the GNU C compiler, but now stands, as Erik Post stated, for the GNU compiler collection. g++ is usally just a link to gcc with certain flags enabled by default. Depending on compilation and install options you can compile different languages with gcc just by setting different flags.