Washing Software N. The Process Of Recompiling A Software Distribution (used More Often When The Recompilation Is Occuring From Scratch) To Pick Up And Merge Together All Of The Various Changes That Have Been Made To The Source.

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• kit: [USENET; poss. fr. DEC slang for a full software distribution, as opposed to a patch or upgrade] n.
  A source software distribution that has been packaged in such a way that it can (theoretically) be unpacked and installed according to a series of steps using only standard UNIX tools, and entirely documented by some reasonable chain of references from the top-level {README file}....
• kit n. [Usenet; poss. fr. DEC slang for a full software distributio
  as opposed to a patch or upgrade] A source software distribution that has been packaged in such a way that it can (theoretically) be unpacked and installed according to a series of steps using only standard Unix tools, and entirely documented by some reasonable chain of references from the top-level README file....
• The Movement Formerly Known As Open Source The battle over the Open Source trademark is heating up.
  Software in the Public Interest and the Open Source Initiative both hold competing claims to the trademark....
• README file n. Hacker's-eye introduction traditionally included in the top-level directory of a Unix source distributio
  containing a pointer to more detailed documentation, credits, miscellaneous revision history, notes, etc....
• free software n. As defined by Richard M. Stallman and used by the Free Software movement, this means software that gives users enough freedom to be used by the free software community.
  Specifically, users must be free to modify the software for their private use, and free to redistribute it either with or without modifications, either commercially or noncommercially, either gratis or charging a distribution fee....
• Open Source Beer Revolution Yesterday, Red Hat introduced an 'open source' beer called Red Brew.
  The recipes for making the beer are available for free over the Net, and microbrewery kits are available at low cost from Red Hat....
• wedged adj. 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help.
  This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has become totally non-functioning....
• README file: n. Hacker's-eye introduction traditionally included in the top-level directory of a UNIX source distributio
  containing a pointer to more detailed documentation, credits, miscellaneous revision history, notes, etc....
• brittle adj. Said of software that is functional but easily broken by changes in operating environment or configuration, or by any minor tweak to the software itself.
  Also, any system that responds inappropriately and disastrously to abnormal but expected external stimuli...