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6<appendix id="appendixa" xreflabel="Appendix A">
7<?dbhtml dir="appendixa"?>
8<title>Acronyms and Terms</title>
9<?dbhtml filename="acronymlist.html"?>
10
11<variablelist>
12<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
13
14<varlistentry>
15<term><emphasis role="bold">ABI</emphasis></term><listitem><para>Application Binary Interface</para></listitem>
16</varlistentry>
17
18<varlistentry>
19<term><emphasis role="bold">ALFS</emphasis></term><listitem><para>Automated Linux From Scratch</para></listitem>
20</varlistentry>
21
22<varlistentry>
23<term><emphasis role="bold">ALSA</emphasis></term><listitem><para>Advanced Linux
24Sound Architecture</para></listitem>
25</varlistentry>
26
27<varlistentry>
28<term><emphasis role="bold">API</emphasis></term><listitem><para>Application
29Programming Interface</para></listitem>
30</varlistentry>
31
32<varlistentry>
33<term><emphasis role="bold">ASCII</emphasis></term><listitem><para>American Standard
34Code for Information Interchange</para></listitem>
35</varlistentry>
36
37<varlistentry>
38<term><emphasis role="bold">BIOS</emphasis></term><listitem><para>Basic Input/Output
39System</para></listitem>
40</varlistentry>
41
42<varlistentry>
43<term><emphasis role="bold">BLFS</emphasis></term><listitem><para>Beyond Linux From
44Scratch</para></listitem>
45</varlistentry>
46
47<varlistentry>
48<term><emphasis role="bold">BSD</emphasis></term><listitem><para>Berkeley Software
49Distribution</para></listitem>
50</varlistentry>
51
52<varlistentry>
53<term><emphasis role="bold">chroot</emphasis></term><listitem><para>change root</para></listitem>
54</varlistentry>
55
56<varlistentry>
57<term><emphasis role="bold">CMOS</emphasis></term><listitem><para>Complementary
58Metal Oxide Semiconductor</para></listitem>
59</varlistentry>
60
61<varlistentry>
62<term><emphasis role="bold">COS</emphasis></term>
63<listitem><para>Class Of Service</para></listitem>
64</varlistentry>
65
66<varlistentry>
67<term><emphasis role="bold">CPU</emphasis></term>
68<listitem><para>Central Processing Unit</para></listitem>
69</varlistentry>
70
71<varlistentry>
72<term><emphasis role="bold">CRC</emphasis></term>
73<listitem><para>Cyclic Redundancy Check</para></listitem>
74</varlistentry>
75
76<varlistentry>
77<term><emphasis role="bold">CVS</emphasis></term>
78<listitem><para>Concurrent Versions System</para></listitem>
79</varlistentry>
80
81<varlistentry>
82<term><emphasis role="bold">DHCP</emphasis></term>
83<listitem><para>Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol</para></listitem>
84</varlistentry>
85
86<varlistentry>
87<term><emphasis role="bold">DNS</emphasis></term>
88<listitem><para>Domain Name Service</para></listitem>
89</varlistentry>
90
91<varlistentry>
92<term><emphasis role="bold">EGA</emphasis></term>
93<listitem><para>Enhanced Graphics Adapter</para></listitem>
94</varlistentry>
95
96<varlistentry>
97<term><emphasis role="bold">ELF</emphasis></term>
98<listitem><para>Executable and Linkable Format</para></listitem>
99</varlistentry>
100
101<varlistentry>
102<term><emphasis role="bold">EOF</emphasis></term>
103<listitem><para>End of File</para></listitem>
104</varlistentry>
105
106<varlistentry>
107<term><emphasis role="bold">EQN</emphasis></term>
108<listitem><para>equation</para></listitem>
109</varlistentry>
110
111<varlistentry>
112<term><emphasis role="bold">EVMS</emphasis></term>
113<listitem><para>Enterprise Volume Management System</para></listitem>
114</varlistentry>
115
116<varlistentry>
117<term><emphasis role="bold">ext2</emphasis></term>
118<listitem><para>second extended file system</para></listitem>
119</varlistentry>
120
121<varlistentry>
122<term><emphasis role="bold">FAQ</emphasis></term>
123<listitem><para>Frequently Asked Questions</para></listitem>
124</varlistentry>
125
126<varlistentry>
127<term><emphasis role="bold">FHS</emphasis></term>
128<listitem><para>Filesystem Hierarchy Standard</para></listitem>
129</varlistentry>
130
131<varlistentry>
132<term><emphasis role="bold">FIFO</emphasis></term>
133<listitem><para>First-In, First Out</para></listitem>
134</varlistentry>
135
136<varlistentry>
137<term><emphasis role="bold">FQDN</emphasis></term>
138<listitem><para>Fully Qualified Domain Name</para></listitem>
139</varlistentry>
140
141<varlistentry>
142<term><emphasis role="bold">FTP</emphasis></term>
143<listitem><para>File Transfer Protocol</para></listitem>
144</varlistentry>
145
146<varlistentry>
147<term><emphasis role="bold">GB</emphasis></term>
148<listitem><para>Gibabytes</para></listitem>
149</varlistentry>
150
151<varlistentry>
152<term><emphasis role="bold">GCC</emphasis></term>
153<listitem><para>GNU Compiler Collection</para></listitem>
154</varlistentry>
155
156<varlistentry>
157<term><emphasis role="bold">GID</emphasis></term>
158<listitem><para>Group Identifier</para></listitem>
159</varlistentry>
160
161<varlistentry>
162<term><emphasis role="bold">GMT</emphasis></term>
163<listitem><para>Greenwich Mean Time</para></listitem>
164</varlistentry>
165
166<varlistentry>
167<term><emphasis role="bold">GPG</emphasis></term>
168<listitem><para>GNU Privacy Guard</para></listitem>
169</varlistentry>
170
171<varlistentry>
172<term><emphasis role="bold">HTML</emphasis></term>
173<listitem><para>Hypertext Markup Language</para></listitem>
174</varlistentry>
175
176<varlistentry>
177<term><emphasis role="bold">IDE</emphasis></term>
178<listitem><para>Integrated Drive Electronics</para></listitem>
179</varlistentry>
180
181<varlistentry>
182<term><emphasis role="bold">IEEE</emphasis></term>
183<listitem><para>Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers</para></listitem>
184</varlistentry>
185
186<varlistentry>
187<term><emphasis role="bold">IO</emphasis></term>
188<listitem><para>Input/Output</para></listitem>
189</varlistentry>
190
191<varlistentry>
192<term><emphasis role="bold">IP</emphasis></term>
193<listitem><para>Internet Protocol</para></listitem>
194</varlistentry>
195
196<varlistentry>
197<term><emphasis role="bold">IPC</emphasis></term>
198<listitem><para>Inter-Process Communication</para></listitem>
199</varlistentry>
200
201<varlistentry>
202<term><emphasis role="bold">IRC</emphasis></term>
203<listitem><para>Internet Relay Chat</para></listitem>
204</varlistentry>
205
206<varlistentry>
207<term><emphasis role="bold">ISO</emphasis></term>
208<listitem><para>International Organization for Standardization</para></listitem>
209</varlistentry>
210
211<varlistentry>
212<term><emphasis role="bold">ISP</emphasis></term>
213<listitem><para>Internet Service Provider</para></listitem>
214</varlistentry>
215
216<varlistentry>
217<term><emphasis role="bold">KB</emphasis></term>
218<listitem><para>Kilobytes</para></listitem>
219</varlistentry>
220
221<varlistentry>
222<term><emphasis role="bold">LED</emphasis></term>
223<listitem><para>Light Emitting Diode</para></listitem>
224</varlistentry>
225
226<varlistentry>
227<term><emphasis role="bold">LFS</emphasis></term>
228<listitem><para>Linux From Scratch</para></listitem>
229</varlistentry>
230
231<varlistentry>
232<term><emphasis role="bold">LSB</emphasis></term>
233<listitem><para>Linux Standards Base</para></listitem>
234</varlistentry>
235
236<varlistentry>
237<term><emphasis role="bold">MB</emphasis></term>
238<listitem><para>Megabytes</para></listitem>
239</varlistentry>
240
241<varlistentry>
242<term><emphasis role="bold">MBR</emphasis></term>
243<listitem><para>Master Boot Record</para></listitem>
244</varlistentry>
245
246<varlistentry>
247<term><emphasis role="bold">MD5</emphasis></term>
248<listitem><para>Message Digest 5</para></listitem>
249</varlistentry>
250
251<varlistentry>
252<term><emphasis role="bold">NIC</emphasis></term>
253<listitem><para>Network Interface Card</para></listitem>
254</varlistentry>
255
256<varlistentry>
257<term><emphasis role="bold">NLS</emphasis></term>
258<listitem><para>Native Language Support</para></listitem>
259</varlistentry>
260
261<varlistentry>
262<term><emphasis role="bold">NNTP</emphasis></term>
263<listitem><para>Network News Transport Protocol</para></listitem>
264</varlistentry>
265
266<varlistentry>
267<term><emphasis role="bold">NPTL</emphasis></term>
268<listitem><para>Native POSIX Threading Library</para></listitem>
269</varlistentry>
270
271<varlistentry>
272<term><emphasis role="bold">OSS</emphasis></term>
273<listitem><para>Open Sound System</para></listitem>
274</varlistentry>
275
276<varlistentry>
277<term><emphasis role="bold">PCH</emphasis></term>
278<listitem><para>Pre-Compiled Headers</para></listitem>
279</varlistentry>
280
281<varlistentry>
282<term><emphasis role="bold">PCRE</emphasis></term>
283<listitem><para>Perl Compatible Regular Expression</para></listitem>
284</varlistentry>
285
286<varlistentry>
287<term><emphasis role="bold">PID</emphasis></term>
288<listitem><para>Process Identifier</para></listitem>
289</varlistentry>
290
291<varlistentry>
292<term><emphasis role="bold">PLFS</emphasis></term>
293<listitem><para>Pure Linux From Scratch</para></listitem>
294</varlistentry>
295
296<varlistentry>
297<term><emphasis role="bold">PTY</emphasis></term>
298<listitem><para>pseudo terminal</para></listitem>
299</varlistentry>
300
301<varlistentry>
302<term><emphasis role="bold">QA</emphasis></term>
303<listitem><para>Quality Assurance</para></listitem>
304</varlistentry>
305
306<varlistentry>
307<term><emphasis role="bold">QOS</emphasis></term>
308<listitem><para>Quality Of Service</para></listitem>
309</varlistentry>
310
311<varlistentry>
312<term><emphasis role="bold">RAM</emphasis></term>
313<listitem><para>Random Access Memory</para></listitem>
314</varlistentry>
315
316<varlistentry>
317<term><emphasis role="bold">RPC</emphasis></term>
318<listitem><para>Remote Procedure Call</para></listitem>
319</varlistentry>
320
321<varlistentry>
322<term><emphasis role="bold">RTC</emphasis></term>
323<listitem><para>Real Time Clock</para></listitem>
324</varlistentry>
325
326<varlistentry>
327<term><emphasis role="bold">SBU</emphasis></term>
328<listitem><para>Static Binutils Unit</para></listitem>
329</varlistentry>
330
331<varlistentry>
332<term><emphasis role="bold">SCO</emphasis></term>
333<listitem><para>The Santa Cruz Operation</para></listitem>
334</varlistentry>
335
336<varlistentry>
337<term><emphasis role="bold">SGR</emphasis></term>
338<listitem><para>Select Graphic Rendition</para></listitem>
339</varlistentry>
340
341<varlistentry>
342<term><emphasis role="bold">SHA1</emphasis></term>
343<listitem><para>Secure-Hash Algorithm 1</para></listitem>
344</varlistentry>
345
346<varlistentry>
347<term><emphasis role="bold">SMP</emphasis></term>
348<listitem><para>Symmetric Multi-Processor</para></listitem>
349</varlistentry>
350
351<varlistentry>
352<term><emphasis role="bold">TLDP</emphasis></term>
353<listitem><para>The Linux Documentation Project</para></listitem>
354</varlistentry>
355
356<varlistentry>
357<term><emphasis role="bold">TFTP</emphasis></term>
358<listitem><para>Trivial File Transfer Protocol</para></listitem>
359</varlistentry>
360
361<varlistentry>
362<term><emphasis role="bold">TLS</emphasis></term>
363<listitem><para>Thread-Local Storage</para></listitem>
364</varlistentry>
365
366<varlistentry>
367<term><emphasis role="bold">UID</emphasis></term>
368<listitem><para>User Identifier</para></listitem>
369</varlistentry>
370
371<varlistentry>
372<term><emphasis role="bold">umask</emphasis></term>
373<listitem><para>user file-creation mask</para></listitem>
374</varlistentry>
375
376<varlistentry>
377<term><emphasis role="bold">USB</emphasis></term>
378<listitem><para>Universal Serial Bus</para></listitem>
379</varlistentry>
380
381<varlistentry>
382<term><emphasis role="bold">UTC</emphasis></term>
383<listitem><para>Coordinated Universal Time</para></listitem>
384</varlistentry>
385
386<varlistentry>
387<term><emphasis role="bold">UUID</emphasis></term>
388<listitem><para>Universally Unique Identifier</para></listitem>
389</varlistentry>
390
391<varlistentry>
392<term><emphasis role="bold">VC</emphasis></term>
393<listitem><para>Virtual Console</para></listitem>
394</varlistentry>
395
396<varlistentry>
397<term><emphasis role="bold">VGA</emphasis></term>
398<listitem><para>Video Graphics Array</para></listitem>
399</varlistentry>
400
401<varlistentry>
402<term><emphasis role="bold">VT</emphasis></term>
403<listitem><para>Virtual Terminal</para></listitem>
404</varlistentry>
405
406</variablelist>
407
408</appendix>
409
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