GNUstep is a free, object-oriented, cross-platform development environment that strives for simplicity and elegance. GNUstep is based on and completely compatible with the OpenStep specification developed by NeXT (now Apple Computer Inc.) as well as implementing the extensions added by Apple in the form of Cocoa. This package contains GNUstep-base component of the core libraries needed to write non-graphic tools in Objective-C. It includes all of the classes necessary for writing an incredible array of tools, from wrappers for system tools to tools for communicating with web and other types of servers.