%general-entities; ]> ABI Application Binary Interface ALSA Advanced Linux Sound Architecture API Application Programming Interface ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange ATA Advanced Technology Attachment (see IDE) BIOS Basic Input/Output System bless manipulate a filesystem so that OF will boot from it BSD Berkeley Software Distribution CBLFS Community Driven Beyond Linux From Scratch chroot change root CLFS Cross-Compiled Linux From Scratch CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor COS Class Of Service CPU Central Processing Unit CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check 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 NPTL Native POSIX Threading Library OF Open Firmware OSS Open Sound System PCH Pre-Compiled Headers PID Process Identifier PTY pseudo terminal QA Quality Assurance QOS Quality Of Service RAM Random Access Memory RPC Remote Procedure Call RTC Real Time Clock SCO The Santa Cruz Operation SATA Serial ATA SGR Select Graphic Rendition 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