portable

Definition: portable: Pertaining to software that can be ported, or modified to run in another environment. Linux is an example of a portable system. Because all the programming that is hardware-specific is restricted to the kernel, a programmer can port Linux to a new computer system by changing only the kernel.

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Source: Linux Guide @FirstLinux / Linux Dictionary V 0.16
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Author: Binh Nguyen linuxfilesystem(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)au
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