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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}....
• 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....
• 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....
• distribution n. 1. A software source tree packaged for distributio
  but see kit. Since about 1996 unqualified use of this term often implies `Linux distribution'....
• 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.
• distribution: n. 1. A software source tree packaged for distributio
  but see {kit}. 2. A vague term encompassing mailing lists and USENET newsgroups (but not {BBS} {fora})...
• unafish: n. In hackish lore, refers to the mutated punchline of an age-old joke to be found at the bottom of the manual pages of `tunefs(8)' in the original {BSD} 4.
  2 distribution. The joke was removed in later releases once commercial sites started using 4....
• unafish n. In hackish lore, refers to the mutated punchline of an age-old joke to be found at the bottom of the manual pages of tunefs(8) in the original BSD 4.
  2 distribution. The joke was removed in later releases once commercial sites started using 4....
• General Public Virus n. Pejorative name for some versions of the GNU project copyleft or General Public License (GPL)
  which requires that any tools or apps incorporating copylefted code must be source-distributed on the same anti-proprietary terms as GNU stuff....