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• hovelware /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 slipshod compilation of software dumped onto a CD-ROM without much care for organization or even usability....
• 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})...
• 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}....
• cut a tape: vi. To write a software or document distribution on magnetic tape for shipment.
  Has nothing to do with physically cutting the medium!...
• freeze: v. To lock an evolving software distribution or document against changes so it can be released with some hope of stability.
  Carries the strong implication that the item in question will `unfreeze' at some future date....
• golden: adj. [prob. from folklore's `golden egg'] When used to describe a magnetic medium (e.
  g., `golden disk', `golden tape'), describes one containing a tested, up-to-spec, ready-to-ship software version....
• 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.
• charityware: /cha'rit-ee-weir`/ n. Syn. {careware}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• 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'....