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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. DIT - Directory Information Tree, for implementations of LDAP.
  7. DRBD - a block device which is designed to build high availability clusters.
  8. EVDO - Evolution-Data Optimized wireless communication.
  9. FOSS - Free Open Source Software.
  10. FOSDEM - Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting.
  11. FTP - File Transfer Protocol.
  12. FTBFS - Fails To Build From Source.
  13. GDM - GNOME Display Manager.
  14. GPL - General Public License.
  15. GSMA - Groupe Speciale Mobile Association.
  16. GUADEC - GNOME Users’ And Developers’ European Conference.
  17. GUI - Graphicical User Interface.
  18. ICT - Information and Communitcation Technology.
  19. IM - Instant Messaging.
  20. IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol.
  21. IPsec - Internet Protocol Security.
  22. IRC - Internet Relay Chat.
  23. ISO - International Organization for Standardization. Also, the suffix given to disk images that comply with the conventional Standards format.
  24. JDK - (OpenJDK) Java Developer's Kit.
  25. KVM - Kernel based Virtual Machine.
  26. LAMP - Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl (or some say PHP).

  27. LAPP - Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, Perl (or some say PHP).

  28. LCD - Liquid Crystal Display.
  29. LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
  30. LGPL - Lesser General Public License.
  31. LKML - Linux Kernel Mailing List.
  32. LTS - Long Term Support.
  33. LTSP - Linux Terminal Server Project.
  34. LUG - Linux User's Group.
  35. MID - Mobile Internet Device.
  36. MOTU - Master Of The Universe - Developers responsible for the Universe and Multiverse repositories.
  37. NAS - Network-attached storage.
  38. NTFS - the standard file system of Windows NT.
  39. NTR - Nonprofit Technology Resources.
  40. OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer.
  41. OS - Operating System.
  42. OSD - On Screen Display.
  43. OSS - Open Source Software.
  44. PAM - Pluggable Authentication Module.
  45. PDA - Personal Digital Assistant.
  46. POP3 - Post Office Protocol version 3.
  47. PPA - Personal Project Archive.
  48. Q&A - Question And Answer.

  49. QA - Quality Assurance.
  50. RC - Release Candidate.
  51. SaaS - Software as a Service.
  52. SASL - Simple Authentication and Security Layer: a framework for authentication and data security in Internet protocols.
  53. SFD - Software Freedom Day.
  54. SoC - System on a Chip.

  55. SoHo - Small Office, Home Office.

  56. SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
  57. SRU - Search/Retrieve via URL.
  58. SRU - Stable release updates.
  59. SSD - Solid State Drive.
  60. SSH - Secure SHell - a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices.
  61. SSL - Secure Sockets Layer.
  62. svm - Support Vector Machine.
  63. Tls - Transport Layer Security, successor to Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
  64. UF - Ubuntu Forums.
  65. UDS - Ubuntu Developer Summit.
  66. UME - Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded.
  67. USB - Universal Serial Bus.
  68. 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.
  69. VGA - Video Graphics Array.
  70. VNC - Virtual Network Computing.
  71. VPN - Virtual Private Network.
  72. WPA - Wi-Fi Protected Access.
  73. WS-Security - Web Service Security.