| 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 |
| PDF |
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