What is "rooting"?

[steeldroid_blaze]

Sorry guys new to the forum...looking at all the talk about "rooting" phones and tech talk...im curious..thnx

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[DrZenga]

Rooting is being able to run your phone at it's full potential, i can't explain it further than that. I know someone here can, I'm sure.

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[geoffwhite18]

Rooting means giving you access to the root folder. That allows you to make changes to the phone. In old DOS terms it means going from C:\system to C:\

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[guidot]

Rooting is a lot more than that.

Let me link you to a post...
Ignore the title, it was written long ago!

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-hacks/632-what-root-means-stop-asking.html