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 is an award-winning technical writer and teacher known for her ability to explain complex technical subjects to a non-technical, business audience. Over the past twenty years her explanations have appeared on TechTarget websites and she's been cited as an authority in articles by the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine and Discovery Magazine.Margaret's idea of a fun day is helping IT and business professionals learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages. If you have a suggestion for a new definition or how to improve a technical explanation, please email Margaret or contact her…

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