![]() ![]() Software remastering creates an application by rebuilding its code base from the software objects on an existing master repository. Notably, Counter-Strike was remastered from Half-Life and went on to be marketed as a commercial product. ![]() Many video games have been modded by upgrading them with additional content, levels, or features. For example, an application is remastered just by acquiring, modifying and recompiling its original source code. Remastering does not necessarily require the remastering software, which only facilitates the process. When remastering a distro, remastering software can be applied from the "inside" of a live operating system to clone itself into an installation package. Various utilities exist that combine Windows updates and device drivers with the original Windows CD/DVD installation media, a process known as slipstreaming. Microsoft Windows has also been modified and remastered. When a remastered version becomes public it becomes a distribution. These might involve critical system software, but the extent of the customizations made in remastering can be as trivial as a change in a default setting of the distribution and subsequent provision to an acquaintance on installation media. Notably, remastering SLS Linux forked Slackware, remastering Red Hat Linux helped fork Yellow Dog Linux and Mandriva and TurboLinux, and by remastering a Debian distribution, Ubuntu was started, which is itself remastered by the Linux Mint team. Most distributions start as a remastered version of another distribution as evidenced by the announcements made at DistroWatch. A global community of Linux providers pushes the practice of remastering by developer switching, project overtaking or merging, and by sharing over the Internet. Since 2001 over 1000 computer operating systems have arisen for download from the Internet. ![]() Remastered Linux, BSD and OpenSolaris operating system distributions are common because they are not copy protected, but also because of the allowance of such operating systems to grow an application for taking a snapshot of itself, and of installing that onto bootable media such as a thumb drive or a virtual machine in a hypervisor. Note the vertical dotted line that indicates how two distros, WHAX and Auditor Security Linux, merged to discontinue themselves and remaster Auditor Security Linux to create the BackTrack distro.Ĭommon examples of software remastering include Linux and Unix-like distributions, and video games. If a codebase replicates the behaviour of the original but does not derive from the original codebase then it is a clone. If the codebase does not continue to parallel an ongoing, upstream software development, then it is a fork, not a remastered version. The term comes from remastering in media production, where it is similarly distinguished from mere copying. Software remastering is software development that recreates system software and applications while incorporating customizations, with the intent that it is copied and run elsewhere for "off-label" usage. ( September 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Several templates and tools are available to assist in formatting, such as Reflinks ( documentation), reFill ( documentation) and Citation bot ( documentation). Please consider converting them to full citations to ensure the article remains verifiable and maintains a consistent citation style. This article uses bare URLs, which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot. ![]()
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