Specific	A solution is specific if it solves one specific problem
General	A solution is general if it solves more than one problem

Details on what this means follows

Here we have a specific solution.

The solution solves 'P3' and 'P3' only.

specific = specialized

Here we have a general solution.

The solution solves all of our given problems.

general = generalized

Another general solution here.

Just like the previous except showing it solves a subset (some) of the problems.

Do not worry too much about the diff between this and the prev snippet (just think of general as more than one problem solved).

A general solution is awesome because we knock off several problems at once.

However, there are cases were a specific solution is fine. Some problems are very unique and thus would demand a unique solution.