| A | |
|---|---|
| ALSA | Advaned Linux Sound Architecture |
| Apache | The most widely used web server. This server is an open source project developped by the Apache Group. Currently it is supporting the following operating systems: Unix, Linux, Windows. The Windows version is less advanced that its Unix and Linux counterpart. |
| APM | Advanced Power Management |
| APT | Advanced Package Tool. This application can manage the installation procedures of other applications on Debian systems. This is very useful especially for applications that have a lot of dependencies. |
| ARP | Address Rezolution Protocol |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Coding standard widely used for storing characters inside personal computers. Mainframe computers can use other systems like EDBIC (see EDBIC). |
| B | |
| bash | Very common command-line interpreter for UNIX. |
| BSD (Berkley Software Distribution) | A UNIX flavour developped by the Berkley University. |
| D | |
| DOS |
Disk Operating System.
Class of old operating systems developped by many companies:
DR-DOS - Digital Research DOS MS-DOS - Microsoft DOS Novel DOS ... |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. Machines using this protocol can automatically obtain an IP address for a local network. |
| DMA | Direct Memory Access All the devices that can use DMA can write or read from the main memory without the intervention of the main processor. Since the degree of paralelism is increased the performance is increased as well. |
| DPMS | Display Power Management System. |
| E | |
| ELF | Executable and Linking Format Binary format used by most of the executable files in the GNU/Linux system. |
| ext2 | Extended 2 filesystem. The most widely used file system in the GNU/Linux world. |
| F | |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions |
| FAT | File Allocation Table. This file system was used in DOS and old windows systems: Windows3.0, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME |
| FDDI | Fiber Distributed Digital Interface |
| FIFO | First In, First Out |
| FTP | File Transport Protocol |
| G | |
| GFDL | GNU Free Documentation Licence. |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format. |
| GNU | |
| GPL | General Public Licence. The licence used by the GNU project. |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| H | |
| HTML | HyperText Mark-up Language |
| HTTP | HyperText Transfer Protocol |
| I | |
| ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IP | Intellectual Property |
| ISP | Internet Solution Provider |
| L | |
| LILO | LInux LOader. This application traps the boot process and allows the user to choose from several operating systems at boot time. |
| Linux | High quality free operating system derived from Unix. |
| M | |
| Mysql | Open source database. |
| N | |
| NFS | Network File System. |
| O | |
| OS | Operating System |
| P | |
| PHP | Langauage used mostly for displaying web pages. |
| PID | Process IDentifier |
| POP3 | Email retrieval protocol. |
| R | |
| RARP | Reverse Address Rezolution Protocol |
| S | |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transmision Protocol |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
| SSH | Secure Shell. This protocol is a secure replacement for telnet. |
| T | |
| TCP | Transmision Control Protocol |
| telnet | |
| U | |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
| Unicode | |
| V | |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| W | |
| Wine | WINdows Emulator for Unix platforms. |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
