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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
- acpid - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Daemon
- API - Application Programming Interface
- CC - Creative Commons
- CMS - Content Management System
- DRBD - a block device which is designed to build high availability clusters.
- FOSS - Free Open Source Software
- FOSDEM - Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting
- FTBFS - Fails To Build From Source
- GUADEC - GNOME Users’ And Developers’ European Conference
- GUI - Graphicical User Interface
- ICT - Information and Communitcation Technology
- IRC - Internet Relay Chat
- ISO - International Organization for Standardization. Also, the suffix given to disk images that comply with the conventional Standards format.
- JDK - (OpenJDK) Java Developer's Kit
- KVM - Kernel based Virtual Machine
- LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
- LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
- LKML - Linux Kernel Mailing List
- LTS - Long Term Support
- LTSP - Linux Terminal Server Project
- MID - Mobile Internet Device
- MOTU - Master Of The Universe - Developers responsible for the Universe and Multiverse repositories.
- NTR - Nonprofit Technology Resources
- OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
- OS - Operating System
- OSS - Open Source Software
- PAM - Pluggable Authentication Module
- PDA - Personal Digital Assistant
- PPA - Personal Project Archive
- QA - Quality Assurance
- SFD - Software Freedom Day
SoHo - Small Office, Home Office
- SRU - Search/Retrieve via URL
- SSH - Secure SHell - a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices
- UDS - Ubuntu Developer Summit
- USB - Universal Serial Bus
- VGA - Video Graphics Array
- VPN - Virtual Private Network
- WPA - Wi-Fi Protected Access
Ubuntu/glossary (last edited 2012-04-25 02:55:47 by CPE-58-173-232-60)