Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index A self-hosting software distribution is one which provides all necessary source code to enable itself to be re-compiled from scratch, including all of the necessary tool chains needed for its compilation. Most Linux distributions are self-hosting. Also (of a computer language): a computer language which is natively implemented in its own language. The programming languages C and Lisp are self-hosting. See also: bootstrapping This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.