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

  37. SoHo - Small Office, Home Office

  38. SRU - Search/Retrieve via URL
  39. SSD - Solid State Drive
  40. SSH - Secure SHell - a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices
  41. UDS - Ubuntu Developer Summit
  42. USB - Universal Serial Bus
  43. VGA - Video Graphics Array
  44. VPN - Virtual Private Network
  45. WPA - Wi-Fi Protected Access