gnubie /noo'bee/ n.
Written-only variant of newbie in
common use on IRC channels, which implies specifically someone who
is new to the Linux/open source/free software world.
Written-only variant of newbie in
common use on IRC channels, which implies specifically someone who
is new to the Linux/open source/free software world.
Related:
- newbie /n[y]oo'bee/ n.
[verry common; orig. from
British public-school and military slang variant of `new boy'] A
Usenet neophyte.
This term surfaced in the newsgroup talk.bizarre... - FRS // n.,obs.
Abbreviation for "Freely Redistributable
Software" which entered general use on the Internet in 1995 after
years of low-level confusion over what exactly to call software
written to be passed around and shared (contending terms including
freeware,
shareware, and `sourceware' were never universally... - free software n.
As defined by Richard M. Stallman and
used by the Free Software movement,
this means software that gives users enough freedom... - OSS
Written-only acronym for "Open Source Software" (see
open source.
This is a rather ugly TLA, and the principals in... - open source n.
[common; also adj. `open-source']
Term coined in March 1998 following the Mozilla release to
describe software distributed in source under licenses guaranteeing
anybody rights to freely use,
modify, and redistribute, the code. The intent... - Brief History Of Linux (#29)
"The Cathedral and the Bazaar" is credited by many (especially ESR
himself) as the reason Netscape announced January 22,
1998 the release of the Mozilla source code. In addition... - Linux /lee'nuhks/ or /li'nuks/, not /li:'nuhks/
n.
The free Unix workalike created by Linus Torvalds and... - dogfood n.
[Microsoft, Netscape] Interim software used
internally for testing.
"To eat one's own dogfood" (from which the slang... - distribution n.
1. A software source tree packaged for
distribution;
but see kit. Since about 1996 unqualified use of...
From the same category:
- elder days n.
The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly,
pre-1980); the era of the PDP-10, TECO, ITS ARPANET... - lion food n.
[IBM] Middle management or HQ staff (or,
by extension, administrative drones in general)... - wart n.
A small, crocky feature that sticks out
of an otherwise clean design.
Something conspicuous for localized ugliness, especially... - FM /F-M/ n.
1. [common] Not `Frequency
Modulation' but rather an abbreviation for `Fucking Manual',
the back-formation from RTFM. Used to refer to the... - busy-wait vi.
Used of human behavior, conveys that the
subject is busy waiting for someone or something,
intends to move instantly as soon as it shows up...
