On Fri, 05 May 2000, Akshay Salkar wrote:
>Whats the difference between 'binary distribution' and a 'source distribution'.
Binary: unizp, and run. you can't modify this without extensive R'ingTFB, and
working with a HEX editor. Basically this is what you get on windows most of
the time (aka closed source)
Source: you need to compile to get this to work, this can be modified easily
with any text editor. You can change this to suit your needs as you wish. This
is what you get with free software. eg, Linux, *BSD, Apache, Bind...
Devdas Bhagat
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