CM is the abbreviation of CyanogenMod, which is a customized, aftermarket firmware for gadgets (smart phones, pads etc). CM is based on the open-source (means every developer can play with the source code following Generla Public License, many open source codes are even better than the commercial ones, famous ones are like Linux, Android, ZIP, FireFox,Eclipse, PHP,MySQL, Apache,...so many excellent ones). You can understand CM as a firmware which can be used as a tool to root your devices allowing gain access to Google Android App Market.
Current released version (relatively stable ones) are CM7 Alpha 3/3.5. The official CM website is http://www.cyanogenmod.com and the developer team is very active in xda developer forum http://forum.xda-developers.com/ and CM is actually a team work by CM developers and developers on XDA-Developers.
CM7 is based on Android 2.3 Gingerbread and currently they are working toward to the next version CM9 which should be based on Android 4.x Ice Cream Sandwich.
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