Frost

What Does Frost Mean?

Frost is a free application which is developed and distributed under the GNU General Public license (GPL). It is often used anonymously for downloading software, documents, video and audio from other users.

Techopedia Explains Frost

Frost is a well-known Freenet newsgroup and file-sharing system. Designed by Ian Clarke, Freenet is a distributed decentralized data store that is resistant to censorship.

Frost is no longer associated with Freenet and now has a website that relies on donations to compensate developer contributions.

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Margaret Rouse

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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.

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