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  7. <appendix id="appendixa" xreflabel="Appendix A">
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  10. <title>Acronyms and Terms</title>
  11. <variablelist>
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  14. <varlistentry>
  15. <term><emphasis role="bold">ABI</emphasis></term>
  16. <listitem>
  17. <para>Application Binary Interface</para>
  18. </listitem>
  19. </varlistentry>
  20. <varlistentry>
  21. <term><emphasis role="bold">ALFS</emphasis></term>
  22. <listitem>
  23. <para>Automated Linux From Scratch</para>
  24. </listitem>
  25. </varlistentry>
  26. <varlistentry>
  27. <term><emphasis role="bold">ALSA</emphasis></term>
  28. <listitem>
  29. <para>Advanced Linux Sound Architecture</para>
  30. </listitem>
  31. </varlistentry>
  32. <varlistentry>
  33. <term><emphasis role="bold">API</emphasis></term>
  34. <listitem>
  35. <para>Application Programming Interface</para>
  36. </listitem>
  37. </varlistentry>
  38. <varlistentry>
  39. <term><emphasis role="bold">ASCII</emphasis></term>
  40. <listitem>
  41. <para>American Standard Code for Information Interchange</para>
  42. </listitem>
  43. </varlistentry>
  44. <varlistentry>
  45. <term><emphasis role="bold">BIOS</emphasis></term>
  46. <listitem>
  47. <para>Basic Input/Output System</para>
  48. </listitem>
  49. </varlistentry>
  50. <varlistentry>
  51. <term><emphasis role="bold">BLFS</emphasis></term>
  52. <listitem>
  53. <para>Beyond Linux From Scratch</para>
  54. </listitem>
  55. </varlistentry>
  56. <varlistentry>
  57. <term><emphasis role="bold">BSD</emphasis></term>
  58. <listitem>
  59. <para>Berkeley Software Distribution</para>
  60. </listitem>
  61. </varlistentry>
  62. <varlistentry>
  63. <term><emphasis role="bold">chroot</emphasis></term>
  64. <listitem>
  65. <para>change root</para>
  66. </listitem>
  67. </varlistentry>
  68. <varlistentry>
  69. <term><emphasis role="bold">CMOS</emphasis></term>
  70. <listitem>
  71. <para>Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor</para>
  72. </listitem>
  73. </varlistentry>
  74. <varlistentry>
  75. <term><emphasis role="bold">COS</emphasis></term>
  76. <listitem>
  77. <para>Class Of Service</para>
  78. </listitem>
  79. </varlistentry>
  80. <varlistentry>
  81. <term><emphasis role="bold">CPU</emphasis></term>
  82. <listitem>
  83. <para>Central Processing Unit</para>
  84. </listitem>
  85. </varlistentry>
  86. <varlistentry>
  87. <term><emphasis role="bold">CRC</emphasis></term>
  88. <listitem>
  89. <para>Cyclic Redundancy Check</para>
  90. </listitem>
  91. </varlistentry>
  92. <varlistentry>
  93. <term><emphasis role="bold">CVS</emphasis></term>
  94. <listitem>
  95. <para>Concurrent Versions System</para>
  96. </listitem>
  97. </varlistentry>
  98. <varlistentry>
  99. <term><emphasis role="bold">DHCP</emphasis></term>
  100. <listitem>
  101. <para>Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol</para>
  102. </listitem>
  103. </varlistentry>
  104. <varlistentry>
  105. <term><emphasis role="bold">DNS</emphasis></term>
  106. <listitem>
  107. <para>Domain Name Service</para>
  108. </listitem>
  109. </varlistentry>
  110. <varlistentry>
  111. <term><emphasis role="bold">EGA</emphasis></term>
  112. <listitem>
  113. <para>Enhanced Graphics Adapter</para>
  114. </listitem>
  115. </varlistentry>
  116. <varlistentry>
  117. <term><emphasis role="bold">ELF</emphasis></term>
  118. <listitem>
  119. <para>Executable and Linkable Format</para>
  120. </listitem>
  121. </varlistentry>
  122. <varlistentry>
  123. <term><emphasis role="bold">EOF</emphasis></term>
  124. <listitem>
  125. <para>End of File</para>
  126. </listitem>
  127. </varlistentry>
  128. <varlistentry>
  129. <term><emphasis role="bold">EQN</emphasis></term>
  130. <listitem>
  131. <para>equation</para>
  132. </listitem>
  133. </varlistentry>
  134. <varlistentry>
  135. <term><emphasis role="bold">EVMS</emphasis></term>
  136. <listitem>
  137. <para>Enterprise Volume Management System</para>
  138. </listitem>
  139. </varlistentry>
  140. <varlistentry>
  141. <term><emphasis role="bold">ext2</emphasis></term>
  142. <listitem>
  143. <para>second extended file system</para>
  144. </listitem>
  145. </varlistentry>
  146. <varlistentry>
  147. <term><emphasis role="bold">ext3</emphasis></term>
  148. <listitem>
  149. <para>third extended file system</para>
  150. </listitem>
  151. </varlistentry>
  152. <varlistentry>
  153. <term><emphasis role="bold">FAQ</emphasis></term>
  154. <listitem>
  155. <para>Frequently Asked Questions</para>
  156. </listitem>
  157. </varlistentry>
  158. <varlistentry>
  159. <term><emphasis role="bold">FHS</emphasis></term>
  160. <listitem>
  161. <para>Filesystem Hierarchy Standard</para>
  162. </listitem>
  163. </varlistentry>
  164. <varlistentry>
  165. <term><emphasis role="bold">FIFO</emphasis></term>
  166. <listitem>
  167. <para>First-In, First Out</para>
  168. </listitem>
  169. </varlistentry>
  170. <varlistentry>
  171. <term><emphasis role="bold">FQDN</emphasis></term>
  172. <listitem>
  173. <para>Fully Qualified Domain Name</para>
  174. </listitem>
  175. </varlistentry>
  176. <varlistentry>
  177. <term><emphasis role="bold">FTP</emphasis></term>
  178. <listitem>
  179. <para>File Transfer Protocol</para>
  180. </listitem>
  181. </varlistentry>
  182. <varlistentry>
  183. <term><emphasis role="bold">GB</emphasis></term>
  184. <listitem>
  185. <para>Gibabytes</para>
  186. </listitem>
  187. </varlistentry>
  188. <varlistentry>
  189. <term><emphasis role="bold">GCC</emphasis></term>
  190. <listitem>
  191. <para>GNU Compiler Collection</para>
  192. </listitem>
  193. </varlistentry>
  194. <varlistentry>
  195. <term><emphasis role="bold">GID</emphasis></term>
  196. <listitem>
  197. <para>Group Identifier</para>
  198. </listitem>
  199. </varlistentry>
  200. <varlistentry>
  201. <term><emphasis role="bold">GMT</emphasis></term>
  202. <listitem>
  203. <para>Greenwich Mean Time</para>
  204. </listitem>
  205. </varlistentry>
  206. <varlistentry>
  207. <term><emphasis role="bold">GPG</emphasis></term>
  208. <listitem>
  209. <para>GNU Privacy Guard</para>
  210. </listitem>
  211. </varlistentry>
  212. <varlistentry>
  213. <term><emphasis role="bold">HTML</emphasis></term>
  214. <listitem>
  215. <para>Hypertext Markup Language</para>
  216. </listitem>
  217. </varlistentry>
  218. <varlistentry>
  219. <term><emphasis role="bold">IDE</emphasis></term>
  220. <listitem>
  221. <para>Integrated Drive Electronics</para>
  222. </listitem>
  223. </varlistentry>
  224. <varlistentry>
  225. <term><emphasis role="bold">IEEE</emphasis></term>
  226. <listitem>
  227. <para>Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers</para>
  228. </listitem>
  229. </varlistentry>
  230. <varlistentry>
  231. <term><emphasis role="bold">IO</emphasis></term>
  232. <listitem>
  233. <para>Input/Output</para>
  234. </listitem>
  235. </varlistentry>
  236. <varlistentry>
  237. <term><emphasis role="bold">IP</emphasis></term>
  238. <listitem>
  239. <para>Internet Protocol</para>
  240. </listitem>
  241. </varlistentry>
  242. <varlistentry>
  243. <term><emphasis role="bold">IPC</emphasis></term>
  244. <listitem>
  245. <para>Inter-Process Communication</para>
  246. </listitem>
  247. </varlistentry>
  248. <varlistentry>
  249. <term><emphasis role="bold">IRC</emphasis></term>
  250. <listitem>
  251. <para>Internet Relay Chat</para>
  252. </listitem>
  253. </varlistentry>
  254. <varlistentry>
  255. <term><emphasis role="bold">ISO</emphasis></term>
  256. <listitem>
  257. <para>International Organization for Standardization</para>
  258. </listitem>
  259. </varlistentry>
  260. <varlistentry>
  261. <term><emphasis role="bold">ISP</emphasis></term>
  262. <listitem>
  263. <para>Internet Service Provider</para>
  264. </listitem>
  265. </varlistentry>
  266. <varlistentry>
  267. <term><emphasis role="bold">KB</emphasis></term>
  268. <listitem>
  269. <para>Kilobytes</para>
  270. </listitem>
  271. </varlistentry>
  272. <varlistentry>
  273. <term><emphasis role="bold">LED</emphasis></term>
  274. <listitem>
  275. <para>Light Emitting Diode</para>
  276. </listitem>
  277. </varlistentry>
  278. <varlistentry>
  279. <term><emphasis role="bold">LFS</emphasis></term>
  280. <listitem>
  281. <para>Linux From Scratch</para>
  282. </listitem>
  283. </varlistentry>
  284. <varlistentry>
  285. <term><emphasis role="bold">LSB</emphasis></term>
  286. <listitem>
  287. <para>Linux Standard Base</para>
  288. </listitem>
  289. </varlistentry>
  290. <varlistentry>
  291. <term><emphasis role="bold">MB</emphasis></term>
  292. <listitem>
  293. <para>Megabytes</para>
  294. </listitem>
  295. </varlistentry>
  296. <varlistentry>
  297. <term><emphasis role="bold">MBR</emphasis></term>
  298. <listitem>
  299. <para>Master Boot Record</para>
  300. </listitem>
  301. </varlistentry>
  302. <varlistentry>
  303. <term><emphasis role="bold">MD5</emphasis></term>
  304. <listitem>
  305. <para>Message Digest 5</para>
  306. </listitem>
  307. </varlistentry>
  308. <varlistentry>
  309. <term><emphasis role="bold">NIC</emphasis></term>
  310. <listitem>
  311. <para>Network Interface Card</para>
  312. </listitem>
  313. </varlistentry>
  314. <varlistentry>
  315. <term><emphasis role="bold">NLS</emphasis></term>
  316. <listitem>
  317. <para>Native Language Support</para>
  318. </listitem>
  319. </varlistentry>
  320. <varlistentry>
  321. <term><emphasis role="bold">NNTP</emphasis></term>
  322. <listitem>
  323. <para>Network News Transport Protocol</para>
  324. </listitem>
  325. </varlistentry>
  326. <varlistentry>
  327. <term><emphasis role="bold">NPTL</emphasis></term>
  328. <listitem>
  329. <para>Native POSIX Threading Library</para>
  330. </listitem>
  331. </varlistentry>
  332. <varlistentry>
  333. <term><emphasis role="bold">OSS</emphasis></term>
  334. <listitem>
  335. <para>Open Sound System</para>
  336. </listitem>
  337. </varlistentry>
  338. <varlistentry>
  339. <term><emphasis role="bold">PCH</emphasis></term>
  340. <listitem>
  341. <para>Pre-Compiled Headers</para>
  342. </listitem>
  343. </varlistentry>
  344. <varlistentry>
  345. <term><emphasis role="bold">PCRE</emphasis></term>
  346. <listitem>
  347. <para>Perl Compatible Regular Expression</para>
  348. </listitem>
  349. </varlistentry>
  350. <varlistentry>
  351. <term><emphasis role="bold">PID</emphasis></term>
  352. <listitem>
  353. <para>Process Identifier</para>
  354. </listitem>
  355. </varlistentry>
  356. <varlistentry>
  357. <term><emphasis role="bold">PLFS</emphasis></term>
  358. <listitem>
  359. <para>Pure Linux From Scratch</para>
  360. </listitem>
  361. </varlistentry>
  362. <varlistentry>
  363. <term><emphasis role="bold">PTY</emphasis></term>
  364. <listitem>
  365. <para>pseudo terminal</para>
  366. </listitem>
  367. </varlistentry>
  368. <varlistentry>
  369. <term><emphasis role="bold">QA</emphasis></term>
  370. <listitem>
  371. <para>Quality Assurance</para>
  372. </listitem>
  373. </varlistentry>
  374. <varlistentry>
  375. <term><emphasis role="bold">QOS</emphasis></term>
  376. <listitem>
  377. <para>Quality Of Service</para>
  378. </listitem>
  379. </varlistentry>
  380. <varlistentry>
  381. <term><emphasis role="bold">RAM</emphasis></term>
  382. <listitem>
  383. <para>Random Access Memory</para>
  384. </listitem>
  385. </varlistentry>
  386. <varlistentry>
  387. <term><emphasis role="bold">RPC</emphasis></term>
  388. <listitem>
  389. <para>Remote Procedure Call</para>
  390. </listitem>
  391. </varlistentry>
  392. <varlistentry>
  393. <term><emphasis role="bold">RTC</emphasis></term>
  394. <listitem>
  395. <para>Real Time Clock</para>
  396. </listitem>
  397. </varlistentry>
  398. <varlistentry>
  399. <term><emphasis role="bold">SBU</emphasis></term>
  400. <listitem>
  401. <para>Standard Build Unit</para>
  402. </listitem>
  403. </varlistentry>
  404. <varlistentry>
  405. <term><emphasis role="bold">SCO</emphasis></term>
  406. <listitem>
  407. <para>The Santa Cruz Operation</para>
  408. </listitem>
  409. </varlistentry>
  410. <varlistentry>
  411. <term><emphasis role="bold">SGR</emphasis></term>
  412. <listitem>
  413. <para>Select Graphic Rendition</para>
  414. </listitem>
  415. </varlistentry>
  416. <varlistentry>
  417. <term><emphasis role="bold">SHA1</emphasis></term>
  418. <listitem>
  419. <para>Secure-Hash Algorithm 1</para>
  420. </listitem>
  421. </varlistentry>
  422. <varlistentry>
  423. <term><emphasis role="bold">SMP</emphasis></term>
  424. <listitem>
  425. <para>Symmetric Multi-Processor</para>
  426. </listitem>
  427. </varlistentry>
  428. <varlistentry>
  429. <term><emphasis role="bold">TLDP</emphasis></term>
  430. <listitem>
  431. <para>The Linux Documentation Project</para>
  432. </listitem>
  433. </varlistentry>
  434. <varlistentry>
  435. <term><emphasis role="bold">TFTP</emphasis></term>
  436. <listitem>
  437. <para>Trivial File Transfer Protocol</para>
  438. </listitem>
  439. </varlistentry>
  440. <varlistentry>
  441. <term><emphasis role="bold">TLS</emphasis></term>
  442. <listitem>
  443. <para>Thread-Local Storage</para>
  444. </listitem>
  445. </varlistentry>
  446. <varlistentry>
  447. <term><emphasis role="bold">UID</emphasis></term>
  448. <listitem>
  449. <para>User Identifier</para>
  450. </listitem>
  451. </varlistentry>
  452. <varlistentry>
  453. <term><emphasis role="bold">umask</emphasis></term>
  454. <listitem>
  455. <para>user file-creation mask</para>
  456. </listitem>
  457. </varlistentry>
  458. <varlistentry>
  459. <term><emphasis role="bold">USB</emphasis></term>
  460. <listitem>
  461. <para>Universal Serial Bus</para>
  462. </listitem>
  463. </varlistentry>
  464. <varlistentry>
  465. <term><emphasis role="bold">UTC</emphasis></term>
  466. <listitem>
  467. <para>Coordinated Universal Time</para>
  468. </listitem>
  469. </varlistentry>
  470. <varlistentry>
  471. <term><emphasis role="bold">UUID</emphasis></term>
  472. <listitem>
  473. <para>Universally Unique Identifier</para>
  474. </listitem>
  475. </varlistentry>
  476. <varlistentry>
  477. <term><emphasis role="bold">VC</emphasis></term>
  478. <listitem>
  479. <para>Virtual Console</para>
  480. </listitem>
  481. </varlistentry>
  482. <varlistentry>
  483. <term><emphasis role="bold">VGA</emphasis></term>
  484. <listitem>
  485. <para>Video Graphics Array</para>
  486. </listitem>
  487. </varlistentry>
  488. <varlistentry>
  489. <term><emphasis role="bold">VT</emphasis></term>
  490. <listitem>
  491. <para>Virtual Terminal</para>
  492. </listitem>
  493. </varlistentry>
  494. </variablelist>
  495. </appendix>