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 1. svm - Support Vector Machine

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. GDM - GNOME Display Manager.
  12. GPL - General Public License.
  13. GSMA - Groupe Speciale Mobile Association.
  14. GUADEC - GNOME Users’ And Developers’ European Conference.
  15. GUI - Graphicical User Interface.
  16. ICT - Information and Communitcation Technology.
  17. IM - Instant Messaging.
  18. IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol.
  19. IPsec - Internet Protocol Security.
  20. IRC - Internet Relay Chat.
  21. ISO - International Organization for Standardization. Also, the suffix given to disk images that comply with the conventional Standards format.
  22. JDK - (OpenJDK) Java Developer's Kit.
  23. KVM - Kernel based Virtual Machine.
  24. LCD - Liquid Crystal Display.
  25. LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
  26. LGPL - Lesser General Public License.
  27. LKML - Linux Kernel Mailing List.
  28. LTS - Long Term Support.
  29. LTSP - Linux Terminal Server Project.
  30. LUG - Linux User's Group.
  31. MID - Mobile Internet Device.
  32. MOTU - Master Of The Universe - Developers responsible for the Universe and Multiverse repositories.
  33. NAS - Network-attached storage.
  34. NTFS - the standard file system of Windows NT.
  35. NTR - Nonprofit Technology Resources.
  36. OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer.
  37. OS - Operating System.
  38. OSS - Open Source Software.
  39. PAM - Pluggable Authentication Module.
  40. PDA - Personal Digital Assistant.
  41. POP3 - Post Office Protocol version 3.
  42. PPA - Personal Project Archive.
  43. QA - Quality Assurance.
  44. SaaS - Software as a Service.
  45. SASL - Simple Authentication and Security Layer: a framework for authentication and data security in Internet protocols.
  46. SFD - Software Freedom Day.
  47. SoC - System on a Chip.

  48. SoHo - Small Office, Home Office.

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

UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/glossary (last edited 2020-12-28 21:39:00 by torsten.franz)