- Software remastering
Remastering (the term is taken from the audio production process) is the process of customizing a software distribution for personal or "off-label" usage (and often distribution, depending on the legalities involved). It is particularly associated with the
Linux distribution world (most Linux distributions have been started by remastering (most notablySlackware fromSLS Linux andYellow Dog Linux ,Mandriva , andTurboLinux fromRed Hat Linux ). The term was popularized by Klaus Knopper, creator of theKnoppix Live Distro , which has traditionally encouraged its users to hack the distribution in this manner to suit their needs; appropriately, Knoppix itself is a remaster ofDebian .Such activity has also been done, though not under this name, to many games, especially those designed for user expansion; some games, in fact, most notably
Counter-Strike , have been created in this manner and gone on to be marketed in their own right as commercial products.ee also
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List of remastering software
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