Vanilla software

• As one of the earliest examples, IBM's mainframe text publishing system BookMaster, provides a default way to specify which parts of a book to publish, called "vanilla", and a fancier way, called "mocha".
• The term "vanilla" is sometimes also used for hardware components. For instance, in the 1990s non-upgraded Amiga home computers were called " vanilla"; similarly, it was later also applied to PC parts.
• For Unix-based kernels, a "vanilla kernel" refers to a kernel that has been unmodified by any third-party source. For instance, the vanilla Linux kernel is often given a Linux distribution-specific "flavour" by being heavily modified.
• In his book End of Ignorance, Charles Winborne refers to a static page that is ″only a text file, but one that links to accompanying files″ as a plain-vanilla web page.