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ANTELOPE

An antelope is any of several cloven hoofed ruminates, members of a large family, closely resembling the Deer in general appearance, but essentially different in nature from the latter animals. They are included with the Sheep and Oxen in the family of the Cavicornia or 'Hollow-horned' Ruminants. Their horns, unlike those of the Deer, are not deciduous, but are permanent; are never branched, but are often twisted spirally, and may be borne by both sexes. They are found in greatest number and variety in Africa. Well-known species are the chamois (European), the gazelle, the addax, the eland, the kudu, the gnu, the springbok, the sasin or Indian antelope, and the prongbuck of America.
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The gnu (wildebeeste) is an antelope found in Africa. Both sexes have horns projecting slightly outwards and downwards, then forming an abrupt upward bend. They have bristly black hair about the face and muzzle, a white stiff mane, and horse-like tail. They reach a length of about 270cm and a height at the shoulder of about 120cm.
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ZEBRA

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The Zebra (Equus) is a genus of black (or dark brown) and white vertically striped wild horses, or horse-like mammals, found in Africa. There are currently three surviving species of Zebra: The Grevy's Zebra (Equus grevyi) found in northern Kenya and Somalia; The Mountain Zebra found in south-west Africa which has two sub-species: The Cape Mountain zebra (Equus zebra zebra) and the Hartmann's mountain zebra (Equus zebra hartmannae); the Common Zebra, also known as the Plains Zebra or Burchell's Zebra (Equus burchelli or Equus quagga) found in east and South Africa. A fourth species, the quagga became extinct during the 1870's. Zebras are social animals living in herds and mixing freely with other grazing animals on the open savanahs of Africa south of the Sahara Desert, this interaction between animals is believed to be for mutual defence against predators. The Zebra have acute hearing, gnu which often mix with them have a good sense of smell and Ostrich which are also often to be found in the area have very good vision.
When a Zebra is born its stripes are usually more brown than black, and become darker with age.
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7-ZIP

7-Zip is a free file archiver by Igor Pavlov, for the Windows operating systems distributed under the GNU LGP license. 7-Zip supports 7z, ZIP, RAR, CAB, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB compressed file formats enabling Unix TAR archives to be created and decompressed under Windows. 7-Zip is comprised of three clients modules: a plug in for Windows Explorer, a plug in for the FAR Manager, and a command line version.
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EMACS

EMACS is a programmable computer text editor with an entire LISP system inside it. It was originally written by Richard Stallman in TECO under ITS at the MIT AI lab; AI Memo 554 described it as 'an advanced, self-documenting, customisable, extensible real-time display editor'. It has since been reimplemented any number of times, by various hackers, and versions exist which run under most major operating systems. Perhaps the most widely used version, also written by Stallman and now called 'GNU EMACS' or GNUMACS, runs principally under UNIX. It includes facilities to run compilation sub-processes and send and receive mail. Other variants include GOSMACS, CCA EMACS, UniPress EMACS, Montgomery EMACS, jove, epsilon, and MicroEMACS.
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GIMP

The GIMP (GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a computer software application that started as an undergraduate project by Peter Mattis and Spencer Kimball at the University of California and has evolved into an application designed for retouching photographs, composing and authoring images. Its powerful capabilities as an image manipulation program make it a worthy competitor to other similar programs such as Adobe Photoshop or Corel PhotoPaint, but the biggest advantage of The GIMP is it's free availability although it's not freeware, rather it is an OSS (Open Source Software) program covered by the GPL license, which gives the user the freedom to access and also to change the source code that makes up the program. The Gimp offers a full suite of painting tools including brushes, a pencil, an airbrush, an ink tool, and cloning. Tile-based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space; sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools, allowing for high-quality anti-aliasing; full Alpha channel
(transparency) support; layers and channels. Advanced scripting capabilities provided by a procedural database so you can call internal GIMP functions from external scripts, such as Script-Fu, Perl-Fu (Perl scripts) and Python-Fu (Python scripts). The GIMP offers multiple undo and redo, limited only by disk space; transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear, and flip. File formats supported include PostScript, JPEG, GIF, PNG, XPM, TIFF, TGA, MPEG, PCX, BMP and many others. Selection tools including rectangular, elliptical, free, fuzzy, paths, and intelligent scissors. The GIMP supports plug-ins that allow for the easy addition of new functions, new file formats, and new effects filters. The GIMP is probably best known for its use on the GNU/Linux platform, but there are many platforms that GIMP can run on, including GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT4 and 2000, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris, SunOS, AIX, HP-UX, Tru64, Digital Unix, OSF/1, IRIX, OS/2 and BeOS.
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GNOME

GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a popular graphical user interface for X Windows designed to be an effective desktop and flexible and sophisticated developer's environment.
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GNU

GNU (GNU's Not Unix) is a project initiated during the early 1980s by Richard Stallman with the aim of providing a free replacement for the Berkeley UNIX computer operating system. GNU is designed to be freely copyable, and users are encouraged to improve it and submit their changes to the GNU library.
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GCC

GCC is an abbreviation for Gnu C Compiler
GCC is an abbreviation for Guidance and Control Computer
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GDB

GDB is an abbreviation for Gnu Debugger
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