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<title>Glossary</title>


<glossdiv><title>Acronyms</title>

<glossentry id="gADSL"><glossterm><acronym>ADSL</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gAIFF"><glossterm><acronym>AIFF</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Audio Interchange File Format</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gALSA"><glossterm><acronym>ALSA</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Advanced Linux Sound Architecture</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gAPI"><glossterm><acronym>API</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Application Programming Interface</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gASCII"><glossterm><acronym>ASCII</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>American Standard Code for Information Interchange</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gATK"><glossterm><acronym>ATK</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Accessibility Tool Kit</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gBICS"><glossterm><acronym>BICS</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Binnenvaart Informatie en Communicatie Systeem (inland
shipping information and communication system)</para></glossdef></glossentry>


<glossentry id="gBIND"><glossterm><acronym>BIND</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Berkeley Internet Name Domain</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gBIOS"><glossterm><acronym>BIOS</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Basic Input/Output System</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gBLFS"><glossterm><acronym>BLFS</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Beyond Linux From Scratch</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gCD"><glossterm><acronym>CD</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Compact Disk</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gCIFS"><glossterm><acronym>CIFS</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Common Internet File System</para><glossseealso
otherterm="gSMB">SMB</glossseealso></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gCORBA"><glossterm><acronym>CORBA</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Common Object Request Broker Architecture</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gCSS"><glossterm><acronym>CSS</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Cascading Style Sheets</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gCUPS"><glossterm><acronym>CUPS</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Common UNIX Printing System</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gCVS"><glossterm><acronym>CVS</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Concurrent Versions System</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gDHCP"><glossterm><acronym>DHCP</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gDIN"><glossterm><acronym>DIN</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>German Industrial Norm</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gDNS"><glossterm><acronym>DNS</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Domain Name Service</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gDSSSL"><glossterm><acronym>DSSSL</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Document Style Semantics and Specification Language</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gDVI"><glossterm><acronym>DVI</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>DeVice Independent</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gEPS"><glossterm><acronym>EPS</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Encapsulated PostScript</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gESD"><glossterm><acronym>ESD</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Enlighten Sound Daemon</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gFAM"><glossterm><acronym>FAM</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>File Alteration Monitor</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gFB"><glossterm><acronym>FB</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Frame Buffer</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gFHS"><glossterm><acronym>FHS</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>File Hierarchy Standard</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gFTP"><glossterm><acronym>FTP</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>File Transfer Protocol</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gGDK"><glossterm><acronym>GDK</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para><acronym>GTK</acronym>+ Drawing Kit</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gGNU"><glossterm><acronym>GNU</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para><acronym>GNU</acronym>'s Not Unix</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gGPM"><glossterm><acronym>GPM</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>General Purpose Mouse</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gGTK"><glossterm><acronym>GTK</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Gimp Tool Kit</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gGUI"><glossterm><acronym>GUI</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Graphical User Interface</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gHTML"><glossterm><acronym>HTML</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>HyperText Markup Language</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gHTTP"><glossterm><acronym>HTTP</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>HyperText Transfer Protocol</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gHUP"><glossterm><acronym>HUP</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Hang UP</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gIDL"><glossterm><acronym>IDL</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Interface Definition Language</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gIMAP"><glossterm><acronym>IMAP</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Internet Message Access Protocol</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="IMON"><glossterm><abbrev>IMON</abbrev></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Inode MONitor</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gIP"><glossterm><acronym>IP</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Internet Protocol</para><glossseealso otherterm="gTCP">TCP
</glossseealso></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gISP"><glossterm><acronym>ISP</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Internet Service Provider</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gLAME"><glossterm><acronym>LAME</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Lame Aint an MP3 Encoder</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gLAN"><glossterm><acronym>LAN</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Local Area Network</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gLDAP"><glossterm><acronym>LDAP</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Lightweight Directory Access Protocol</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gLFS"><glossterm><acronym>LFS</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Linux From Scratch</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gLPR"><glossterm><acronym>LPR</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Line PRinter</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gLZO"><glossterm><acronym>LZO</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Lemple-Ziv-Oberhumer</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gMPEG"><glossterm><acronym>MPEG</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Moving Picture Experts Group</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gMTA"><glossterm><acronym>MTA</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Mail Transport Agent</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gMUA"><glossterm><acronym>MUA</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Mail User Agent</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gNASM"><glossterm><acronym>NASM</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Netwide ASseMbler</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gNNTP"><glossterm><acronym>NNTP</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Network News Transfer Protocol</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gNFS"><glossterm><acronym>NFS</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Network File System</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gORB"><glossterm><acronym>ORB</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Object Request Broker</para><glossseealso
otherterm="gCORBA">CORBA</glossseealso></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gOSS"><glossterm><acronym>OSS</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Open Sound System</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gPAM"><glossterm><acronym>PAM</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Pluggable authentication Modules</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gPDF"><glossterm><acronym>PDF</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Portable Document Format</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gPOP"><glossterm><acronym>POP</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Post Office Protocol</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gPPD"><glossterm><acronym>PPD</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>PostScript Printer Description</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gPPP"><glossterm><acronym>PPP</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Point to Point Protocol</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gPPPoE"><glossterm><acronym>PPPoE</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gRFC"><glossterm><acronym>RFC</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Request For Comments</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gRP"><glossterm><acronym>RP</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Roaring Penguin</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gRPC"><glossterm><acronym>RPC</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Remote Procedure Call</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gSANE"><glossterm><acronym>SANE</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Scanner Access Now Easy</para></glossdef></glossentry>


<glossentry id="gSBU"><glossterm><acronym>SBU</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Static Binutils Units</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gSGML"><glossterm><acronym>SGML</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Standard Generalized Markup Language</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gSMB"><glossterm><acronym>SMB</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Server Message Block</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gSMTP"><glossterm><acronym>SMTP</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Simple Mail Transfer Protocol</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gSSH"><glossterm><acronym>SSH</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Secure SHell</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gSSL"><glossterm><acronym>SSL</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Secure Sockets Layer</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gSVGA"><glossterm><acronym>SVGA</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Super Video Graphics Array</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gTCP"><glossterm><acronym>TCP</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Transmission Control Protocol</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gUDF"><glossterm><acronym>UDF</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Universal Disk Format</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gUDP"><glossterm><acronym>UDP</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>User Datagram Protocol</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gURL"><glossterm><acronym>URL</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>Uniform Resource Locator</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gWWW"><glossterm><acronym>WWW</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>World Wide Web</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gXML"><glossterm><acronym>XML</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>eXtensible Markup Language</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gXSL"><glossterm><acronym>XSL</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>eXtensible Style Language</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gXSLT"><glossterm><acronym>XSLT</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>eXtensible Style Language Transformation</para></glossdef></glossentry>

<glossentry id="gXMMS"><glossterm><acronym>XMMS</acronym></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>X MultiMedia System</para></glossdef></glossentry>

</glossdiv>

</glossary>