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Linux Forums - Linux terms Category: Electronics and Engineering Date & country: 09/08/2014, USA Words: 127

Errata
Redhat has lots of this stuff

EXT2
Extended File System Version 2 is probably the most widely used filesystem in the Linux community. It provides standard Unix file semantics and advanced features. Moreover, thanks to the optimizations included in the kernel code, it is robust and offers excellent performance.

DNS
Domain Name Service. This service take name you and I understand like this_site_does_not_exist and translates it into a number computers understand so you'll end up at the correct web site. In this case this_site_does_not_exist

DSL
Digital Subscriber Line is a technology for bringing high-bandwidth information to homes and small businesses over ordinary copper telephone lines. xDSL refers to different variations of DSL, such as ADSL, HDSL, and RADSL.

CUPS
Common Unix Printing System provides a portable printing layer for UNIX and linux based operating systems.

CVS
Concurrent Versions System is a program that lets a programmer save and label his/her work at each stage of development, and allows other people to download the work.

Daemon
is a program that runs continuously and exists for the purpose of handling periodic service requests that a computer system expects to receive.

Conf
short for configuration file.

Controllerless Modem
is one that relies on the operating system for its contoller functions, Also known as a software modem, linmodem or winmodem.

CPU
central processing unit is an older term for processor and microprocessor

CSV
Comma Separated Value file contains the values in a table as a series of ASCII text lines organized so that each column value is separated by a comma from the next column's value and each row starts a new line.

CLI
is a shorthand to the Comand Line Interface.

CMD
Short for command or command line.

CMOS
complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) is the semiconductor technology used in the transistors that are manufactured into most of today's computer microchips.

Coax
or Coaxial cable is copper cable used by cable TV and Internet Service Providers between the community antenna and user homes and businesses. It is also widely installed for use in Ethernet and other types of local area networks.

CGI
Short for Common Gateway Interface is a standard way for a Web server to pass a Web user's request to an application/program and to receive data back to forward to the user.

CAT 3 or 5
Are the two most popular specifications for twisted pair cables. While the two cables look alike, CAT 3 is tested to a lower/slower set of specifications and CAT 5 cable must pass a higher and faster test of 100 MHz.

Build
Is used for Microsoft Visual Basic products and those making products for use on Microsoft products. A build is a version of a bit of software. As a rule, a build is a pre-release version and as such is identified by a build number, rather than by a release number.

Cable ISP
Internet Service Provider that uses coax cable to transmit and recieve Internet data. This is one of several broadband options available today.

Bootstrap
is using a much smaller initial program to load in the desired program (which is usually an operating system).

AV / Anti-Virus
is a program that is designed to watch and or scan for virus's, worms and Trojan Horses then clean, quarantine or delete infected files.

Binary
describes a numbering scheme in which there are only two possible values for each digit: 0 and 1. This is the language all computers speak.

BIOS
basic input/output system is the program a personal computer's microprocessor uses to get the computer system started after you turn it on. It also manages data flow between the computer's operating system and attached devices such as the hard disk, video adapter, keyboard, mouse, and printer.

ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange is the most common format for text files in computers.

Apache
is the world's most popular web server software that runs on Linux, Unix and Windows.

Adware
is any software application in which advertising banners are displayed while the program is running. The programmers of these applications include additional code that delivers the ads, which can be viewed through pop-up windows or through a bar that appears on a computer screen. The justification for adware is that it helps recover programming dev...

AGP
Accelerated Graphics Port is a specification that enables 3-D graphics to display very quickly on ordinary PC's.