ACPI | Advanced Configuration and Power Interface |
ADC | Analog to Digital Converter |
AIX | Advanced Ibm uniX |
AMANDA | Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver |
APM | Advanced Power Management |
ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
ATA | Advanced Technology Attachment |
ATAPI | Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface |
BIND | Berkeley Internet Name Domain |
BIOS | Basic Input Output System |
BSD | Berkeley Software Distribution |
CD-ROM | Compact Disc Read Only Memory |
CD-RW | Compact Disk Re-Writable |
CLI | Command Line Interface |
CMOS | Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor |
CPU | Central Processing Unit |
CUPS | Common Unix Printing System |
DAC | Digital to Analog Converter |
DAEMON | Disk And Execution MONitor |
DAT | Digital Audio disk |
DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
DNS | Domain Name Service |
DOS | Denial Of Service |
DOS | Disk Operating System |
EULA | End User Licence Agreement |
FAT | File Allocation Table |
FQDN | Fully Qualified Domain Name |
FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
GB | Giga Byte |
GECOS | General Electric Comprehensive operating System |
GNOME | GNU Object Model Environment |
GNU | GNU’s Not Unix |
GPL | GNU General Public Licence |
GRUB | GRand Unified Bootloader |
GUI | Graphical User Interface |
HPFS | High Performance File System |
HTML | Hyper Text Markup Language |
HTTP | Hyper Text Transfer Protocol |
IANA | International Association for Names and Assigned numbers |
ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol |
IDE | Integrated Device Electronics |
IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers |
IMAP | Internet Message Access Protocol |
IP | Internet Protocol |
IRC | Internet Relay Chat |
JFS | Journaled File System |
Kb | Kilo bit |
KB | Kilo Byte |
KDE | K Desktop Environment |
KLM | Kernel Loadable Modules |
LAN | Local Area Network |
LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
LDP | Linux Documentation Project |
LILO | LInux LOader |
LVM | Logical Volume Manager |
MAC | Medium Access Control |
Mb | Mega bit |
MB | Mega Byte |
MBR | Master Boot Record |
mingetty | MINimal GETTY |
MODEM | MOdulator DEModulator |
NAT | Network Address Translation |
NFS | Network File System |
NIC | Network Interface Card |
NIS | Network Information Service |
NTFS | New Technology File System |
OSI | Open System Interconnect |
OS | Operating System |
PAM | Pluggable Authentication Modules |
PAP | Password Authentication Protocol |
PATA | Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment |
PCI | Peripheral Component Interconnect |
PCMCIA | Personal Computer Memory Card International Association |
Portable Document Format | |
PLIP | Parallel Line Internet Protocol |
PnP | Plug and Play |
POP | Post Office Protocol |
POST | Power On Selp Test |
PPP | Point-to-Point Protocol |
PTS | Pseudo Terminal Slave |
RAID | Redundant Array of Independant Disk |
RAM | Random Access Memory |
RFC | Request For Comment |
RHCE | Red Hat Certified Engineer |
RHCT | Red Hat Certified Technician |
ROM | Read Only Memory |
RPC | Remote Procedure Call |
RPM | Redhat Package Manager |
SAN | Storage Area Network |
SATA | Serial Advanced Technology Attachment |
SCSI | Small Computer System Interface |
SLIP | Serial Line Internet Protocol |
SMB | Server Message Block |
SMP | Symmetric Multi Processing |
SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
SSH | Secured Shell |
TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
TLD | Top Level Domains |
TTY | TeleTYpe |
UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
UPS | Uninterrupted Power Supply |
URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
USB | Universal Serial Bus |
UTC | Universal Time Co-ordinated |
VFAT | Virtual File Allocation Table |
VFS | Virtual File System Switch |
VIM | VI Improved |
VLU | Valid Linux User |
VPN | Virtual Private Network |
WAN | Wide Area Network |
WWW | World Wide Web |
XDM | X window Display Manager |
XFS | eXtended File System |
XFS | X Font Server |
YP | Yellow Pages |
ISP | Internet Service Provider |
BASH | Bourne-Again SHell |
KSH | Korn SHell |
CSH | C SHell |
PNG | Portable Network Graphics |
MIME | Multi-part Internet Messaging Extension |
SSL | Secure Socket Layer |
SSH | Secure SHell |
IDE : integrated development environment (IDE) / interactive development environment