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

  33. SoHo - Small Office, Home Office

  34. SRU - Search/Retrieve via URL
  35. SSH - Secure SHell - a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices
  36. UDS - Ubuntu Developer Summit
  37. USB - Universal Serial Bus
  38. VGA - Video Graphics Array
  39. VPN - Virtual Private Network
  40. WPA - Wi-Fi Protected Access