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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. 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. NTR - Nonprofit Technology Resources
  32. OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
  33. OS - Operating System
  34. OSS - Open Source Software
  35. PAM - Pluggable Authentication Module
  36. PDA - Personal Digital Assistant
  37. POP3 - Post Office Protocol version 3
  38. PPA - Personal Project Archive
  39. QA - Quality Assurance
  40. SASL - Simple Authentication and Security Layer: a framework for authentication and data security in Internet protocols.
  41. SFD - Software Freedom Day
  42. SoC - System on a Chip

  43. SoHo - Small Office, Home Office

  44. SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
  45. SRU - Search/Retrieve via URL
  46. SSD - Solid State Drive
  47. SSH - Secure SHell - a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices.
  48. Tls - Transport Layer Security, successor to Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
  49. UDS - Ubuntu Developer Summit
  50. USB - Universal Serial Bus
  51. 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
  52. VGA - Video Graphics Array
  53. VPN - Virtual Private Network
  54. WPA - Wi-Fi Protected Access