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Appendix A. Acronyms and Terms
ABI Application Binary Interface ALFS Automated Linux From Scratch API Application Programming Interface
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
BIOS Basic Input/Output System BLFS Beyond Linux From Scratch BSD Berkeley Software Distribution chroot change root
CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
COS Class Of Service
CPU Central Processing Unit CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check CVS Concurrent Versions System
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DNS Domain Name Service
EGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter ELF Executable and Linkable Format EOF End of File
EQN equation
ext2 second extended file system ext3 third extended file system ext4 fourth extended file system FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FHS Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
FIFO First-In, First Out
FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name
FTP File Transfer Protocol
GB Gigabytes
GCC GNU Compiler Collection
GID Group Identifier
GMT Greenwich Mean Time HTML Hypertext Markup Language IDE Integrated Drive Electronics
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IO Input/Output
IP Internet Protocol
IPC Inter-Process Communication
IRC Internet Relay Chat
ISO International Organization for Standardization
ISP Internet Service Provider
KB Kilobytes
LED Light Emitting Diode
LFS Linux From Scratch
LSB Linux Standard Base
MB Megabytes
MBR Master Boot Record
MD5 Message Digest 5
NIC Network Interface Card
NLS Native Language Support
NNTP Network News Transport Protocol NPTL Native POSIX Threading Library OSS Open Sound System
PCH Pre-Compiled Headers
PCRE Perl Compatible Regular Expression
PID Process Identifier
PTY pseudo terminal
QOS Quality Of Service RAM Random Access Memory RPC Remote Procedure Call RTC Real Time Clock
SBU Standard Build Unit
SCO The Santa Cruz Operation
SHA1 Secure-Hash Algorithm 1
TLDP The Linux Documentation Project TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol TLS Thread-Local Storage
UID User Identifier
umask user file-creation mask
USB Universal Serial Bus
UTC Coordinated Universal Time
UUID Universally Unique Identifier
VC Virtual Console
VGA Video Graphics Array
VT Virtual Terminal