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Originally Posted by eddiek
Sorry, I'm a newbie. Had a Kindle for about 1 1/2 years and recently switched to a Nook Color after my Kindle died. What does it mean to have a nook rooted?
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Okay so we know your answer is "no"
No apologize it's perfectly fine not knowing what "rooting" is.
The term "rooting" is a UNIX term drived from the "root" user. A root user in UNIX is an Administrator who essentially has complete access to all resources and has the ability to modify a system--read completely bypasses all security.
Most Android devices disable the "root" user for security reasons and so the users of an Android device only have "user". The user can therefore only perform actions that the device manufacture chooses to impose on the "user"
By "rooting" an android device you are granting yourself Administrative "root" privilege and can pretty much bypass the security measure the manufacture imposes; e.g. install, modify the device however you wish.
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PS Just to confuse you a little more. Android is built on top of Linux which is a type of UNIX. UNIX is an operating system like Windows, OSX, etc...