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 1. JDK - (OpenJDK) Java Developer's Kit
 1. KVM - Kernel based Virtual Machine
 1. LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
 1. LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
 1. LGPL - Lesser General Public License
 1. LKML - Linux Kernel Mailing List
 1. LTS - Long Term Support
 1. LTSP - Linux Terminal Server Project
 1. MID - Mobile Internet Device
 1. JDK - (OpenJDK) Java Developer's Kit.
 1. KVM - Kernel based Virtual Machine.
 1. LCD - Liquid Crystal Display.
 1. LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
 1. LGPL - Lesser General Public License.
 1. LKML - Linux Kernel Mailing List.
 1. LTS - Long Term Support.
 1. LTSP - Linux Terminal Server Project.
 1. MID - Mobile Internet Device.
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 1. NAS - Network-attached storage
 1. NTR - Nonprofit Technology Resources
 1. OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
 1. OS - Operating System
 1. OSS - Open Source Software
 1. PAM - Pluggable Authentication Module
 1. NAS - Network-attached storage.
 1. NTFS - the standard file system of Windows NT.

 1. NTR - Nonprofit Technology Resources.
 1. OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer.
 1. OS - Operating System.
 1. OSS - Open Source Software.
 1. PAM - Pluggable Authentication Module.

Glossary of Terms

The following Glossary of Terms is meant to be an information resource and reference of commonly and uncommonly used terms, formatted for use in the UWN, and arranged alphabetically. This is a work in progress.

WORK IN PROGRESS
  1. acpid - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Daemon
  2. AGPLv3 - Affero General Public License, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License

  3. API - Application Programming Interface
  4. CC - Creative Commons
  5. CMS - Content Management System
  6. DRBD - a block device which is designed to build high availability clusters.
  7. EVDO - Evolution-Data Optimized wireless communication
  8. FOSS - Free Open Source Software
  9. FOSDEM - Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting
  10. FTBFS - Fails To Build From Source
  11. GPL - General Public License
  12. GUADEC - GNOME Users’ And Developers’ European Conference
  13. GUI - Graphicical User Interface
  14. ICT - Information and Communitcation Technology
  15. IM - Instant Messaging
  16. IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol
  17. IPsec - Internet Protocol Security
  18. IRC - Internet Relay Chat
  19. ISO - International Organization for Standardization. Also, the suffix given to disk images that comply with the conventional Standards format.
  20. JDK - (OpenJDK) Java Developer's Kit.
  21. KVM - Kernel based Virtual Machine.
  22. LCD - Liquid Crystal Display.
  23. LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
  24. LGPL - Lesser General Public License.
  25. LKML - Linux Kernel Mailing List.
  26. LTS - Long Term Support.
  27. LTSP - Linux Terminal Server Project.
  28. MID - Mobile Internet Device.
  29. MOTU - Master Of The Universe - Developers responsible for the Universe and Multiverse repositories.
  30. NAS - Network-attached storage.
  31. NTFS - the standard file system of Windows NT.
  32. NTR - Nonprofit Technology Resources.
  33. OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer.
  34. OS - Operating System.
  35. OSS - Open Source Software.
  36. PAM - Pluggable Authentication Module.
  37. PDA - Personal Digital Assistant
  38. POP3 - Post Office Protocol version 3
  39. PPA - Personal Project Archive
  40. QA - Quality Assurance
  41. SASL - Simple Authentication and Security Layer: a framework for authentication and data security in Internet protocols.
  42. SFD - Software Freedom Day
  43. SoC - System on a Chip

  44. SoHo - Small Office, Home Office

  45. SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
  46. SRU - Search/Retrieve via URL
  47. SSD - Solid State Drive
  48. SSH - Secure SHell - a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices.
  49. Tls - Transport Layer Security, successor to Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
  50. UDS - Ubuntu Developer Summit
  51. USB - Universal Serial Bus
  52. UTC - Coordinated Universal Time: UTC replaced GMT as the basis for the main reference time scale or civil time in various regions on January 1, 1972
  53. VGA - Video Graphics Array
  54. VPN - Virtual Private Network
  55. WPA - Wi-Fi Protected Access

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