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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. 

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  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. FOSS - Free Open Source Software
  8. FOSDEM - Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting
  9. FTBFS - Fails To Build From Source
  10. GPL - General Public License
  11. GUADEC - GNOME Users’ And Developers’ European Conference
  12. GUI - Graphicical User Interface
  13. ICT - Information and Communitcation Technology
  14. IM - Instant Messaging
  15. IRC - Internet Relay Chat
  16. ISO - International Organization for Standardization. Also, the suffix given to disk images that comply with the conventional Standards format.
  17. JDK - (OpenJDK) Java Developer's Kit
  18. KVM - Kernel based Virtual Machine
  19. LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
  20. LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
  21. LGPL - Lesser General Public License
  22. LKML - Linux Kernel Mailing List
  23. LTS - Long Term Support
  24. LTSP - Linux Terminal Server Project
  25. MID - Mobile Internet Device
  26. MOTU - Master Of The Universe - Developers responsible for the Universe and Multiverse repositories.
  27. NAS - Network-attached storage
  28. NTR - Nonprofit Technology Resources
  29. OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
  30. OS - Operating System
  31. OSS - Open Source Software
  32. PAM - Pluggable Authentication Module
  33. PDA - Personal Digital Assistant
  34. PPA - Personal Project Archive
  35. QA - Quality Assurance
  36. SFD - Software Freedom Day

  37. SoC - System on a Chip

  38. SoHo - Small Office, Home Office

  39. SRU - Search/Retrieve via URL
  40. SSD - Solid State Drive
  41. SSH - Secure SHell - a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices
  42. UDS - Ubuntu Developer Summit
  43. USB - Universal Serial Bus
  44. VGA - Video Graphics Array
  45. VPN - Virtual Private Network
  46. WPA - Wi-Fi Protected Access