distribution n.
1. A software source tree packaged for
distribution; but see kit. Since about 1996 unqualified use
of this term often implies `Linux distribution'. 2. A vague
term encompassing mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups (but not
BBS fora); any topic-oriented message channel with
multiple recipients. 3. An information-space domain (usually
loosely correlated with geography) to which propagation of a Usenet
message is restricted; a much-underutilized feature.
1. A software source tree packaged for
distribution; but see kit. Since about 1996 unqualified use
of this term often implies `Linux distribution'. 2. A vague
term encompassing mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups (but not
BBS fora); any topic-oriented message channel with
multiple recipients. 3. An information-space domain (usually
loosely correlated with geography) to which propagation of a Usenet
message is restricted; a much-underutilized feature.
Related:
- distribution: n. 1. A software source tree packaged for
distribution;
but see {kit}. 2. A vague term encompassing mailing... - kit: [USENET; poss. fr. DEC slang for a full software
distribution,
as opposed to a patch or upgrade] n. A source software... - mailing list n.
(often shortened in context to `list')
1.
An email address that is an alias (or macro, though... - spam vt.,vi.,n.
[from "Monty Python's Flying
Circus"] 1.
To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer... - kit n.
[Usenet; poss. fr. DEC slang for a full
software distribution,
as opposed to a patch or upgrade] A source software... - topic drift n.
Term used on GEnie, Usenet and other
electronic fora to describe the tendency of a thread to drift
away from the original subject of discussion (and thus,
from the Subject header of the originating message)... - topic drift: n. Term used on GEnie, USENET and other electronic
fora to describe the tendency of a {thread} to drift away from
the original subject of discussion (and thus,
from the Subject header of the originating message)... - shovelware /shuh'v*l-weir`/ n.
1. Extra software dumped onto
a CD-ROM or tape to fill up the remaining space on the medium after
the software distribution it's intended to carry,
but not integrated with the distribution. 2. A... - alt /awlt/
1. n. The alt shift key on an IBM PC or
clone keyboard;
see bucky bits, sense 2 (though typical PC usage...
From the same category:
- batbelt n.
Many hackers routinely hang numerous devices
such as pagers,
cell-phones, personal organizers, leatherman multitools... - peek n.,vt.
(and poke) The commands in most
microcomputer BASICs for directly accessing memory contents at an
absolute address;
often extended to mean the corresponding constructs... - INTERCAL /in't*r-kal/ n.
[said by the authors to stand
for `Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym'] A computer
language designed by Don Woods and James Lyons in 1972.
INTERCAL ... - dogfood n.
[Microsoft, Netscape] Interim software used
internally for testing.
"To eat one's own dogfood" (from which the slang... - for free adj.
[common] Said of a capability of a
programming language or hardware that is available by its design
without needing cleverness to implement:
"In APL, we get the matrix...
