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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. API - Application Programming Interface
  3. CC - Creative Commons
  4. CMS - Content Management System
  5. DRBD - a block device which is designed to build high availability clusters.
  6. FOSS - Free Open Source Software
  7. FOSDEM - Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting
  8. FTBFS - Fails To Build From Source
  9. GUADEC - GNOME Users’ And Developers’ European Conference
  10. GUI - Graphicical User Interface
  11. ICT - Information and Communitcation Technology
  12. IRC - Internet Relay Chat
  13. ISO - International Organization for Standardization. Also, the suffix given to disk images that comply with the conventional Standards format.
  14. JDK - (OpenJDK) Java Developer's Kit
  15. KVM - Kernel based Virtual Machine
  16. LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
  17. LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
  18. LKML - Linux Kernel Mailing List
  19. LTS - Long Term Support
  20. LTSP - Linux Terminal Server Project
  21. MID - Mobile Internet Device
  22. MOTU - Master Of The Universe - Developers responsible for the Universe and Multiverse repositories.
  23. NTR - Nonprofit Technology Resources
  24. OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
  25. OS - Operating System
  26. OSS - Open Source Software
  27. PAM - Pluggable Authentication Module
  28. PDA - Personal Digital Assistant
  29. PPA - Personal Project Archive
  30. QA - Quality Assurance
  31. SFD - Software Freedom Day
  32. SoHo - Small Office, Home Office

  33. SRU - Search/Retrieve via URL
  34. SSH - Secure SHell - a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices
  35. UDS - Ubuntu Developer Summit
  36. USB - Universal Serial Bus
  37. VGA - Video Graphics Array
  38. VPN - Virtual Private Network
  39. WPA - Wi-Fi Protected Access

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