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1. EVDO - Evolution-Data Optimized wireless communication |
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.
WORK IN PROGRESS
- acpid - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Daemon
AGPLv3 - Affero General Public License, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License
- API - Application Programming Interface
- CC - Creative Commons
- CMS - Content Management System
- DRBD - a block device which is designed to build high availability clusters.
- EVDO - Evolution-Data Optimized wireless communication
- FOSS - Free Open Source Software
- FOSDEM - Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting
- FTBFS - Fails To Build From Source
- GPL - General Public License
- GUADEC - GNOME Users’ And Developers’ European Conference
- GUI - Graphicical User Interface
- ICT - Information and Communitcation Technology
- IM - Instant Messaging
- IRC - Internet Relay Chat
- ISO - International Organization for Standardization. Also, the suffix given to disk images that comply with the conventional Standards format.
- JDK - (OpenJDK) Java Developer's Kit
- KVM - Kernel based Virtual Machine
- LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
- LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
- LGPL - Lesser General Public License
- LKML - Linux Kernel Mailing List
- LTS - Long Term Support
- LTSP - Linux Terminal Server Project
- MID - Mobile Internet Device
- MOTU - Master Of The Universe - Developers responsible for the Universe and Multiverse repositories.
- NAS - Network-attached storage
- NTR - Nonprofit Technology Resources
- OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
- OS - Operating System
- OSS - Open Source Software
- PAM - Pluggable Authentication Module
- PDA - Personal Digital Assistant
- PPA - Personal Project Archive
- QA - Quality Assurance
- SFD - Software Freedom Day
SoC - System on a Chip
SoHo - Small Office, Home Office
- SRU - Search/Retrieve via URL
- SSD - Solid State Drive
- SSH - Secure SHell - a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices
- UDS - Ubuntu Developer Summit
- USB - Universal Serial Bus
- VGA - Video Graphics Array
- VPN - Virtual Private Network
- WPA - Wi-Fi Protected Access
UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/glossary (last edited 2020-12-28 21:39:00 by torsten.franz)