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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. 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. IRC - Internet Relay Chat
  17. ISO - International Organization for Standardization. Also, the suffix given to disk images that comply with the conventional Standards format.
  18. JDK - (OpenJDK) Java Developer's Kit
  19. KVM - Kernel based Virtual Machine
  20. LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
  21. LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
  22. LGPL - Lesser General Public License
  23. LKML - Linux Kernel Mailing List
  24. LTS - Long Term Support
  25. LTSP - Linux Terminal Server Project
  26. MID - Mobile Internet Device
  27. MOTU - Master Of The Universe - Developers responsible for the Universe and Multiverse repositories.
  28. NAS - Network-attached storage
  29. NTR - Nonprofit Technology Resources
  30. OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
  31. OS - Operating System
  32. OSS - Open Source Software
  33. PAM - Pluggable Authentication Module
  34. PDA - Personal Digital Assistant
  35. PPA - Personal Project Archive
  36. QA - Quality Assurance
  37. SFD - Software Freedom Day
  38. SoC - System on a Chip

  39. SoHo - Small Office, Home Office

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