diff --git a/doc/manual/source/installation-and-configuration.rst b/doc/manual/source/installation-and-configuration.rst
index 8543fa3e2c4b629cbd2918f25eeb85cac28081b1..146101c6a4fe947bebbad5cf3060e1a151cddea3 100644
--- a/doc/manual/source/installation-and-configuration.rst
+++ b/doc/manual/source/installation-and-configuration.rst
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ are necessary in that case.
 In order to run Dynare, you need one of the following:
 
 * MATLAB version 7.9 (R2009b) or above;
-* GNU Octave version 4.2.1 or above, with the statistics package from `Octave-Forge`_.
+* Octave version 4.2.1 or above, with the statistics package from `Octave-Forge`_.
 
 The following optional extensions are also useful to benefit from
 extra features, but are in no way required:
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ extra features, but are in no way required:
 * If under MATLAB: the Optimization Toolbox, the Statistics Toolbox,
   the Control System Toolbox;
 
-* If under GNU Octave, the following `Octave-Forge`_ packages: ``optim, io,
+* If under Octave, the following `Octave-Forge`_ packages: ``optim, io,
   control``.
 
 
@@ -192,8 +192,8 @@ installation to MATLAB path. You have two options for doing that:
   MATLAB will remember this setting next time you run it.
 
 
-For GNU Octave
---------------
+For Octave
+----------
 
 You need to add the ``matlab`` subdirectory of your Dynare
 installation to Octave path, using the ``addpath`` at the Octave
diff --git a/doc/manual/source/introduction.rst b/doc/manual/source/introduction.rst
index ce44b991bbab8b661778631b05cce8869302bd6f..f34d1e69e52b3e3af7d3ea74d2e783892c87c808 100644
--- a/doc/manual/source/introduction.rst
+++ b/doc/manual/source/introduction.rst
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ manual. Part of Dynare is programmed in C++, while the rest is written
 using the `MATLAB`_ programming language. The latter implies that
 commercially-available MATLAB software is required in order to run
 Dynare. However, as an alternative to MATLAB, Dynare is also able to
-run on top of `GNU Octave`_ (basically a free clone of MATLAB): this
+run on top of `Octave`_ (basically a free clone of MATLAB): this
 possibility is particularly interesting for students or institutions
 who cannot afford, or do not want to pay for, MATLAB and are willing
 to bear the concomitant performance loss.
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ https://www.dynare.org.
 
 
 .. _MATLAB: http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/
-.. _GNU Octave: http://www.octave.org/
+.. _Octave: http://www.octave.org/
 .. _CEPREMAP: http://www.cepremap.fr/
 .. _web forum: https://forum.dynare.org/
 .. _official Dynare website: http://www.dynare.org/
diff --git a/doc/manual/source/running-dynare.rst b/doc/manual/source/running-dynare.rst
index 9b6ee34a29fd04206f2d3d4925a948e1c9b8ddfd..25f95ce05d8f0e7aaf84db02a7353944c612f831 100644
--- a/doc/manual/source/running-dynare.rst
+++ b/doc/manual/source/running-dynare.rst
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ command at the MATLAB or Octave prompt (with the filename of the
 In practice, the handling of the model file is done in two steps: in
 the first one, the model and the processing instructions written by
 the user in a *model file* are interpreted and the proper MATLAB or
-GNU Octave instructions are generated; in the second step, the program
+Octave instructions are generated; in the second step, the program
 actually runs the computations. Both steps are triggered automatically
 by the ``dynare`` command.