Definitions

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  • noun computing, informal A conceptual space outside the kernel in which a user's applications can run without the risk of damage to the operating system.

Etymologies

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user +‎ land

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Examples

  • Geohot (a rather famous hacker) previously uploaded a video demo of an untethered iPhone jailbreak, and now a hacker by the name of "comex" has come up with a browser based untethered iPhone jailbreak, dubbed userland, for the iPhone

    Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets 2010

  • In my own experience it doesn't perform like linux does now, ZFS is cool but just confuses me and the userland is the most horrible thing ever.

    freshnews.org - most clicked links 2009

  • It's now quite commonplace to define virtual machines for "userland" code - the Java VM, the CLR, the Parrot virtual machine and 'hidden' VMs that underlie various programming language implementations such as CPython and Scheme 48.

    Snell-Pym » Designing a Hardware Abstraction Layer: A VM for an operating system 2009

  • If enforced, those regulations would prevent companies like AdMob from collecting some analytic data on ads placed in iOS applications -- data that Apple itself could collect with its iPhone 4 gets preliminary 'userland' jailbreak, real freedom still forthcoming iOS 4 privacy policy updated: Apple can anonymously collect location data, you can take ...

    Engadget 2010

  • The shot that you see here is a "userland" jailbreak.

    MobileWhack.com 2010

  • Right now in "userland" PHP code I have to do multiple array cycles to glue the prefix on each key, pass it to memcached, get the result back, and cycle through the result, removing the key prefix.

    Planet PHP 2010

  • Google's HTML5 plans for Gmail include 1 second-to-Inbox startup iPhone 4 gets preliminary 'userland' jailbreak, real freedom still forthcoming

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2010

  • Google's HTML5 plans for Gmail include 1 second-to-Inbox startup iPhone 4 gets preliminary 'userland' jailbreak, real freedom still forthcoming

    Propeller Most Popular Stories zip316 2010

  • Here is a hint for all those who use "userland" .... chances are that the term does not mean what some of you think it means.

    OSNews 2009

  • August 01, 2003 possible migration back to radio userland

    Weblogs 2009

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