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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. API - Application Programming Interface
  3. FOSS - Free Open Source Software
  4. FOSDEM - Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting
  5. FTBFS - Fails To Build From Source
  6. GUADEC - GNOME Users’ And Developers’ European Conference
  7. JDK - (OpenJDK) Java Developer's Kit
  8. IRC - Internet Relay Chat
  9. LTS - Long Term Support
  10. LTSP - Linux Terminal Server Project
  11. MOTU - Master Of The Universe - Developers responsible for the Universe and Multiverse repositories.
  12. NTR - Nonprofit Technology Resources
  13. OSS - Open Source Software
  14. SSH - Secure SHell - a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices
  15. UDS - Ubuntu Developer Summit