Toaster (software)

The term "toaster" refers to a self-contained software package (or "appliance") that is easily distributable by electronic means, such as the Freedom Toaster project, [1] This use generally connotes free software and is a term occasionally used in the open source software community."[2][3]

This article is about the term used in software jargon. For other uses, see Toaster (disambiguation).

A toaster appliance is often made up of software components that were not originally packaged together. The new toaster package provides a co-ordinated packaging framework in which all the components can function together as a self-contained unit.

References
  1. Freedom Toaster website
  2. Toaster Full for qmail website
  3. Open Video Toaster website
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