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12 <title>Acronyms and Terms</title>
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19 <term><emphasis role="bold">ABI</emphasis></term>
21 <para>Application Binary Interface</para>
26 <term><emphasis role="bold">ALFS</emphasis></term>
28 <para>Automated Linux From Scratch</para>
33 <term><emphasis role="bold">API</emphasis></term>
35 <para>Application Programming Interface</para>
40 <term><emphasis role="bold">ASCII</emphasis></term>
42 <para>American Standard Code for Information Interchange</para>
47 <term><emphasis role="bold">BIOS</emphasis></term>
49 <para>Basic Input/Output System</para>
54 <term><emphasis role="bold">BLFS</emphasis></term>
56 <para>Beyond Linux From Scratch</para>
61 <term><emphasis role="bold">BSD</emphasis></term>
63 <para>Berkeley Software Distribution</para>
68 <term><emphasis role="bold">chroot</emphasis></term>
70 <para>change root</para>
75 <term><emphasis role="bold">CMOS</emphasis></term>
77 <para>Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor</para>
82 <term><emphasis role="bold">COS</emphasis></term>
84 <para>Class Of Service</para>
89 <term><emphasis role="bold">CPU</emphasis></term>
91 <para>Central Processing Unit</para>
96 <term><emphasis role="bold">CRC</emphasis></term>
98 <para>Cyclic Redundancy Check</para>
103 <term><emphasis role="bold">CVS</emphasis></term>
105 <para>Concurrent Versions System</para>
110 <term><emphasis role="bold">DHCP</emphasis></term>
112 <para>Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol</para>
117 <term><emphasis role="bold">DNS</emphasis></term>
119 <para>Domain Name Service</para>
124 <term><emphasis role="bold">EGA</emphasis></term>
126 <para>Enhanced Graphics Adapter</para>
131 <term><emphasis role="bold">ELF</emphasis></term>
133 <para>Executable and Linkable Format</para>
138 <term><emphasis role="bold">EOF</emphasis></term>
140 <para>End of File</para>
145 <term><emphasis role="bold">EQN</emphasis></term>
147 <para>equation</para>
152 <term><emphasis role="bold">ext2</emphasis></term>
154 <para>second extended file system</para>
159 <term><emphasis role="bold">ext3</emphasis></term>
161 <para>third extended file system</para>
166 <term><emphasis role="bold">ext4</emphasis></term>
168 <para>fourth extended file system</para>
173 <term><emphasis role="bold">FAQ</emphasis></term>
175 <para>Frequently Asked Questions</para>
180 <term><emphasis role="bold">FHS</emphasis></term>
182 <para>Filesystem Hierarchy Standard</para>
187 <term><emphasis role="bold">FIFO</emphasis></term>
189 <para>First-In, First Out</para>
194 <term><emphasis role="bold">FQDN</emphasis></term>
196 <para>Fully Qualified Domain Name</para>
201 <term><emphasis role="bold">FTP</emphasis></term>
203 <para>File Transfer Protocol</para>
208 <term><emphasis role="bold">GB</emphasis></term>
210 <para>Gigabytes</para>
215 <term><emphasis role="bold">GCC</emphasis></term>
217 <para>GNU Compiler Collection</para>
222 <term><emphasis role="bold">GID</emphasis></term>
224 <para>Group Identifier</para>
229 <term><emphasis role="bold">GMT</emphasis></term>
231 <para>Greenwich Mean Time</para>
236 <term><emphasis role="bold">HTML</emphasis></term>
238 <para>Hypertext Markup Language</para>
243 <term><emphasis role="bold">IDE</emphasis></term>
245 <para>Integrated Drive Electronics</para>
250 <term><emphasis role="bold">IEEE</emphasis></term>
252 <para>Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers</para>
257 <term><emphasis role="bold">IO</emphasis></term>
259 <para>Input/Output</para>
264 <term><emphasis role="bold">IP</emphasis></term>
266 <para>Internet Protocol</para>
271 <term><emphasis role="bold">IPC</emphasis></term>
273 <para>Inter-Process Communication</para>
278 <term><emphasis role="bold">IRC</emphasis></term>
280 <para>Internet Relay Chat</para>
285 <term><emphasis role="bold">ISO</emphasis></term>
287 <para>International Organization for Standardization</para>
292 <term><emphasis role="bold">ISP</emphasis></term>
294 <para>Internet Service Provider</para>
299 <term><emphasis role="bold">KB</emphasis></term>
301 <para>Kilobytes</para>
306 <term><emphasis role="bold">LED</emphasis></term>
308 <para>Light Emitting Diode</para>
313 <term><emphasis role="bold">LFS</emphasis></term>
315 <para>Linux From Scratch</para>
320 <term><emphasis role="bold">LSB</emphasis></term>
322 <para>Linux Standard Base</para>
327 <term><emphasis role="bold">MB</emphasis></term>
329 <para>Megabytes</para>
334 <term><emphasis role="bold">MBR</emphasis></term>
336 <para>Master Boot Record</para>
341 <term><emphasis role="bold">MD5</emphasis></term>
343 <para>Message Digest 5</para>
348 <term><emphasis role="bold">NIC</emphasis></term>
350 <para>Network Interface Card</para>
355 <term><emphasis role="bold">NLS</emphasis></term>
357 <para>Native Language Support</para>
362 <term><emphasis role="bold">NNTP</emphasis></term>
364 <para>Network News Transport Protocol</para>
369 <term><emphasis role="bold">NPTL</emphasis></term>
371 <para>Native POSIX Threading Library</para>
376 <term><emphasis role="bold">OSS</emphasis></term>
378 <para>Open Sound System</para>
383 <term><emphasis role="bold">PCH</emphasis></term>
385 <para>Pre-Compiled Headers</para>
390 <term><emphasis role="bold">PCRE</emphasis></term>
392 <para>Perl Compatible Regular Expression</para>
397 <term><emphasis role="bold">PID</emphasis></term>
399 <para>Process Identifier</para>
404 <term><emphasis role="bold">PTY</emphasis></term>
406 <para>pseudo terminal</para>
411 <term><emphasis role="bold">QOS</emphasis></term>
413 <para>Quality Of Service</para>
418 <term><emphasis role="bold">RAM</emphasis></term>
420 <para>Random Access Memory</para>
425 <term><emphasis role="bold">RPC</emphasis></term>
427 <para>Remote Procedure Call</para>
432 <term><emphasis role="bold">RTC</emphasis></term>
434 <para>Real Time Clock</para>
439 <term><emphasis role="bold">SBU</emphasis></term>
441 <para>Standard Build Unit</para>
446 <term><emphasis role="bold">SCO</emphasis></term>
448 <para>The Santa Cruz Operation</para>
453 <term><emphasis role="bold">SHA1</emphasis></term>
455 <para>Secure-Hash Algorithm 1</para>
460 <term><emphasis role="bold">TLDP</emphasis></term>
462 <para>The Linux Documentation Project</para>
467 <term><emphasis role="bold">TFTP</emphasis></term>
469 <para>Trivial File Transfer Protocol</para>
474 <term><emphasis role="bold">TLS</emphasis></term>
476 <para>Thread-Local Storage</para>
481 <term><emphasis role="bold">UID</emphasis></term>
483 <para>User Identifier</para>
488 <term><emphasis role="bold">umask</emphasis></term>
490 <para>user file-creation mask</para>
495 <term><emphasis role="bold">USB</emphasis></term>
497 <para>Universal Serial Bus</para>
502 <term><emphasis role="bold">UTC</emphasis></term>
504 <para>Coordinated Universal Time</para>
509 <term><emphasis role="bold">UUID</emphasis></term>
511 <para>Universally Unique Identifier</para>
516 <term><emphasis role="bold">VC</emphasis></term>
518 <para>Virtual Console</para>
523 <term><emphasis role="bold">VGA</emphasis></term>
525 <para>Video Graphics Array</para>
530 <term><emphasis role="bold">VT</emphasis></term>
532 <para>Virtual Terminal</para>