source: appendices/acronymlist.xml@ 6e24e25

Last change on this file since 6e24e25 was 7ee33b91, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 18 years ago

r3867@server (orig r1743): ken | 2006-06-08 10:40:02 -0700
Add appendix to mention OF and Mac issues, so that builders can make sensible choices.
  • Property mode set to 100644
File size: 14.9 KB
RevLine 
[bf8c11f]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE appendix PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<appendix id="appendixa" xreflabel="Appendix A">
9 <?dbhtml dir="appendices"?>
10 <?dbhtml filename="acronymlist.html"?>
11
12 <title>Acronyms and Terms</title>
13
14 <variablelist>
15 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
16 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
17
18 <varlistentry>
19 <term><emphasis role="bold">ABI</emphasis></term>
20 <listitem>
21 <para>Application Binary Interface</para>
22 </listitem>
23 </varlistentry>
24
25 <varlistentry>
26 <term><emphasis role="bold">ALFS</emphasis></term>
27 <listitem>
28 <para>Automated Linux From Scratch</para>
29 </listitem>
30 </varlistentry>
31
32 <varlistentry>
33 <term><emphasis role="bold">ALSA</emphasis></term>
34 <listitem>
35 <para>Advanced Linux Sound Architecture</para>
36 </listitem>
37 </varlistentry>
38
39 <varlistentry>
40 <term><emphasis role="bold">API</emphasis></term>
41 <listitem>
42 <para>Application Programming Interface</para>
43 </listitem>
44 </varlistentry>
45
46 <varlistentry>
47 <term><emphasis role="bold">ASCII</emphasis></term>
48 <listitem>
49 <para>American Standard Code for Information Interchange</para>
50 </listitem>
51 </varlistentry>
52
[da23eb8]53 <varlistentry>
54 <term><emphasis role="bold">ATA</emphasis></term>
55 <listitem>
56 <para>Advanced Technology Attachment (see IDE)</para>
57 </listitem>
58 </varlistentry>
59
[bf8c11f]60 <varlistentry>
61 <term><emphasis role="bold">BIOS</emphasis></term>
62 <listitem>
63 <para>Basic Input/Output System</para>
64 </listitem>
65 </varlistentry>
66
[7ee33b91]67 <varlistentry>
68 <term><emphasis role="bold">bless</emphasis></term>
69 <listitem>
70 <para>manipulate a filesystem so that OF will boot from it</para>
71 </listitem>
72 </varlistentry>
73
[bf8c11f]74 <varlistentry>
75 <term><emphasis role="bold">BLFS</emphasis></term>
76 <listitem>
77 <para>Beyond Linux From Scratch</para>
78 </listitem>
79 </varlistentry>
80
81 <varlistentry>
82 <term><emphasis role="bold">BSD</emphasis></term>
83 <listitem>
84 <para>Berkeley Software Distribution</para>
85 </listitem>
86 </varlistentry>
87
88 <varlistentry>
89 <term><emphasis role="bold">chroot</emphasis></term>
90 <listitem>
91 <para>change root</para>
92 </listitem>
93 </varlistentry>
94
[627926a]95 <varlistentry>
96 <term><emphasis role="bold">CLFS</emphasis></term>
97 <listitem>
98 <para>Cross-Compiled Linux From Scratch</para>
99 </listitem>
100 </varlistentry>
101
[bf8c11f]102 <varlistentry>
103 <term><emphasis role="bold">CMOS</emphasis></term>
104 <listitem>
105 <para>Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor</para>
106 </listitem>
107 </varlistentry>
108
109 <varlistentry>
110 <term><emphasis role="bold">COS</emphasis></term>
111 <listitem>
112 <para>Class Of Service</para>
113 </listitem>
114 </varlistentry>
115
116 <varlistentry>
117 <term><emphasis role="bold">CPU</emphasis></term>
118 <listitem>
119 <para>Central Processing Unit</para>
120 </listitem>
121 </varlistentry>
122
123 <varlistentry>
124 <term><emphasis role="bold">CRC</emphasis></term>
125 <listitem>
126 <para>Cyclic Redundancy Check</para>
127 </listitem>
128 </varlistentry>
129
130 <varlistentry>
131 <term><emphasis role="bold">CVS</emphasis></term>
132 <listitem>
133 <para>Concurrent Versions System</para>
134 </listitem>
135 </varlistentry>
136
137 <varlistentry>
138 <term><emphasis role="bold">DHCP</emphasis></term>
139 <listitem>
140 <para>Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol</para>
141 </listitem>
142 </varlistentry>
143
144 <varlistentry>
145 <term><emphasis role="bold">DNS</emphasis></term>
146 <listitem>
147 <para>Domain Name Service</para>
148 </listitem>
149 </varlistentry>
150
151 <varlistentry>
152 <term><emphasis role="bold">EGA</emphasis></term>
153 <listitem>
154 <para>Enhanced Graphics Adapter</para>
155 </listitem>
156 </varlistentry>
157
158 <varlistentry>
159 <term><emphasis role="bold">ELF</emphasis></term>
160 <listitem>
161 <para>Executable and Linkable Format</para>
162 </listitem>
163 </varlistentry>
164
165 <varlistentry>
166 <term><emphasis role="bold">EOF</emphasis></term>
167 <listitem>
168 <para>End of File</para>
169 </listitem>
170 </varlistentry>
171
172 <varlistentry>
173 <term><emphasis role="bold">EQN</emphasis></term>
174 <listitem>
175 <para>equation</para>
176 </listitem>
177 </varlistentry>
178
179 <varlistentry>
180 <term><emphasis role="bold">EVMS</emphasis></term>
181 <listitem>
182 <para>Enterprise Volume Management System</para>
183 </listitem>
184 </varlistentry>
185
186 <varlistentry>
187 <term><emphasis role="bold">ext2</emphasis></term>
188 <listitem>
189 <para>second extended file system</para>
190 </listitem>
191 </varlistentry>
192
193 <varlistentry>
194 <term><emphasis role="bold">FAQ</emphasis></term>
195 <listitem>
196 <para>Frequently Asked Questions</para>
197 </listitem>
198 </varlistentry>
199
200 <varlistentry>
201 <term><emphasis role="bold">FHS</emphasis></term>
202 <listitem>
203 <para>Filesystem Hierarchy Standard</para>
204 </listitem>
205 </varlistentry>
206
207 <varlistentry>
208 <term><emphasis role="bold">FIFO</emphasis></term>
209 <listitem>
210 <para>First-In, First Out</para>
211 </listitem>
212 </varlistentry>
213
214 <varlistentry>
215 <term><emphasis role="bold">FQDN</emphasis></term>
216 <listitem>
217 <para>Fully Qualified Domain Name</para>
218 </listitem>
219 </varlistentry>
220
221 <varlistentry>
222 <term><emphasis role="bold">FTP</emphasis></term>
223 <listitem>
224 <para>File Transfer Protocol</para>
225 </listitem>
226 </varlistentry>
227
228 <varlistentry>
229 <term><emphasis role="bold">GB</emphasis></term>
230 <listitem>
231 <para>Gibabytes</para>
232 </listitem>
233 </varlistentry>
234
235 <varlistentry>
236 <term><emphasis role="bold">GCC</emphasis></term>
237 <listitem>
238 <para>GNU Compiler Collection</para>
239 </listitem>
240 </varlistentry>
241
242 <varlistentry>
243 <term><emphasis role="bold">GID</emphasis></term>
244 <listitem>
245 <para>Group Identifier</para>
246 </listitem>
247 </varlistentry>
248
249 <varlistentry>
250 <term><emphasis role="bold">GMT</emphasis></term>
251 <listitem>
252 <para>Greenwich Mean Time</para>
253 </listitem>
254 </varlistentry>
255
256 <varlistentry>
257 <term><emphasis role="bold">GPG</emphasis></term>
258 <listitem>
259 <para>GNU Privacy Guard</para>
260 </listitem>
261 </varlistentry>
262
263 <varlistentry>
264 <term><emphasis role="bold">HTML</emphasis></term>
265 <listitem>
266 <para>Hypertext Markup Language</para>
267 </listitem>
268 </varlistentry>
269
270 <varlistentry>
271 <term><emphasis role="bold">IDE</emphasis></term>
272 <listitem>
273 <para>Integrated Drive Electronics</para>
274 </listitem>
275 </varlistentry>
276
277 <varlistentry>
278 <term><emphasis role="bold">IEEE</emphasis></term>
279 <listitem>
280 <para>Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers</para>
281 </listitem>
282 </varlistentry>
283
284 <varlistentry>
285 <term><emphasis role="bold">IO</emphasis></term>
286 <listitem>
287 <para>Input/Output</para>
288 </listitem>
289 </varlistentry>
290
291 <varlistentry>
292 <term><emphasis role="bold">IP</emphasis></term>
293 <listitem>
294 <para>Internet Protocol</para>
295 </listitem>
296 </varlistentry>
297
298 <varlistentry>
299 <term><emphasis role="bold">IPC</emphasis></term>
300 <listitem>
301 <para>Inter-Process Communication</para>
302 </listitem>
303 </varlistentry>
304
305 <varlistentry>
306 <term><emphasis role="bold">IRC</emphasis></term>
307 <listitem>
308 <para>Internet Relay Chat</para>
309 </listitem>
310 </varlistentry>
311
312 <varlistentry>
313 <term><emphasis role="bold">ISO</emphasis></term>
314 <listitem>
315 <para>International Organization for Standardization</para>
316 </listitem>
317 </varlistentry>
318
319 <varlistentry>
320 <term><emphasis role="bold">ISP</emphasis></term>
321 <listitem>
322 <para>Internet Service Provider</para>
323 </listitem>
324 </varlistentry>
325
326 <varlistentry>
327 <term><emphasis role="bold">KB</emphasis></term>
328 <listitem>
329 <para>Kilobytes</para>
330 </listitem>
331 </varlistentry>
332
333 <varlistentry>
334 <term><emphasis role="bold">LED</emphasis></term>
335 <listitem>
336 <para>Light Emitting Diode</para>
337 </listitem>
338 </varlistentry>
339
340 <varlistentry>
341 <term><emphasis role="bold">LFS</emphasis></term>
342 <listitem>
343 <para>Linux From Scratch</para>
344 </listitem>
345 </varlistentry>
346
347 <varlistentry>
348 <term><emphasis role="bold">LSB</emphasis></term>
349 <listitem>
[6a8ff5c]350 <para>Linux Standard Base</para>
[bf8c11f]351 </listitem>
352 </varlistentry>
353
354 <varlistentry>
355 <term><emphasis role="bold">MB</emphasis></term>
356 <listitem>
357 <para>Megabytes</para>
358 </listitem>
359 </varlistentry>
360
361 <varlistentry>
362 <term><emphasis role="bold">MBR</emphasis></term>
363 <listitem>
364 <para>Master Boot Record</para>
365 </listitem>
366 </varlistentry>
367
368 <varlistentry>
369 <term><emphasis role="bold">MD5</emphasis></term>
370 <listitem>
371 <para>Message Digest 5</para>
372 </listitem>
373 </varlistentry>
374
375 <varlistentry>
376 <term><emphasis role="bold">NIC</emphasis></term>
377 <listitem>
378 <para>Network Interface Card</para>
379 </listitem>
380 </varlistentry>
381
382 <varlistentry>
383 <term><emphasis role="bold">NLS</emphasis></term>
384 <listitem>
385 <para>Native Language Support</para>
386 </listitem>
387 </varlistentry>
388
389 <varlistentry>
390 <term><emphasis role="bold">NNTP</emphasis></term>
391 <listitem>
392 <para>Network News Transport Protocol</para>
393 </listitem>
394 </varlistentry>
395
396 <varlistentry>
397 <term><emphasis role="bold">NPTL</emphasis></term>
398 <listitem>
399 <para>Native POSIX Threading Library</para>
400 </listitem>
401 </varlistentry>
402
[3d23af3]403 <varlistentry>
404 <term><emphasis role="bold">OF</emphasis></term>
405 <listitem>
406 <para>Open Firmware</para>
407 </listitem>
408 </varlistentry>
409
[bf8c11f]410 <varlistentry>
411 <term><emphasis role="bold">OSS</emphasis></term>
412 <listitem>
413 <para>Open Sound System</para>
414 </listitem>
415 </varlistentry>
416
417 <varlistentry>
418 <term><emphasis role="bold">PCH</emphasis></term>
419 <listitem>
420 <para>Pre-Compiled Headers</para>
421 </listitem>
422 </varlistentry>
423
424 <varlistentry>
425 <term><emphasis role="bold">PCRE</emphasis></term>
426 <listitem>
427 <para>Perl Compatible Regular Expression</para>
428 </listitem>
429 </varlistentry>
430
431 <varlistentry>
432 <term><emphasis role="bold">PID</emphasis></term>
433 <listitem>
434 <para>Process Identifier</para>
435 </listitem>
436 </varlistentry>
437
438 <varlistentry>
439 <term><emphasis role="bold">PLFS</emphasis></term>
440 <listitem>
441 <para>Pure Linux From Scratch</para>
442 </listitem>
443 </varlistentry>
444
445 <varlistentry>
446 <term><emphasis role="bold">PTY</emphasis></term>
447 <listitem>
448 <para>pseudo terminal</para>
449 </listitem>
450 </varlistentry>
451
452 <varlistentry>
453 <term><emphasis role="bold">QA</emphasis></term>
454 <listitem>
455 <para>Quality Assurance</para>
456 </listitem>
457 </varlistentry>
458
459 <varlistentry>
460 <term><emphasis role="bold">QOS</emphasis></term>
461 <listitem>
462 <para>Quality Of Service</para>
463 </listitem>
464 </varlistentry>
465
466 <varlistentry>
467 <term><emphasis role="bold">RAM</emphasis></term>
468 <listitem>
469 <para>Random Access Memory</para>
470 </listitem>
471 </varlistentry>
472
473 <varlistentry>
474 <term><emphasis role="bold">RPC</emphasis></term>
475 <listitem>
476 <para>Remote Procedure Call</para>
477 </listitem>
478 </varlistentry>
479
480 <varlistentry>
481 <term><emphasis role="bold">RTC</emphasis></term>
482 <listitem>
483 <para>Real Time Clock</para>
484 </listitem>
485 </varlistentry>
486
487 <varlistentry>
488 <term><emphasis role="bold">SCO</emphasis></term>
489 <listitem>
490 <para>The Santa Cruz Operation</para>
491 </listitem>
492 </varlistentry>
493
[da23eb8]494 <varlistentry>
495 <term><emphasis role="bold">SATA</emphasis></term>
496 <listitem>
497 <para>Serial ATA</para>
498 </listitem>
499 </varlistentry>
500
[bf8c11f]501 <varlistentry>
502 <term><emphasis role="bold">SGR</emphasis></term>
503 <listitem>
504 <para>Select Graphic Rendition</para>
505 </listitem>
506 </varlistentry>
507
508 <varlistentry>
509 <term><emphasis role="bold">SHA1</emphasis></term>
510 <listitem>
511 <para>Secure-Hash Algorithm 1</para>
512 </listitem>
513 </varlistentry>
514
515 <varlistentry>
516 <term><emphasis role="bold">SMP</emphasis></term>
517 <listitem>
518 <para>Symmetric Multi-Processor</para>
519 </listitem>
520 </varlistentry>
521
522 <varlistentry>
523 <term><emphasis role="bold">TLDP</emphasis></term>
524 <listitem>
525 <para>The Linux Documentation Project</para>
526 </listitem>
527 </varlistentry>
528
529 <varlistentry>
530 <term><emphasis role="bold">TFTP</emphasis></term>
531 <listitem>
532 <para>Trivial File Transfer Protocol</para>
533 </listitem>
534 </varlistentry>
535
536 <varlistentry>
537 <term><emphasis role="bold">TLS</emphasis></term>
538 <listitem>
539 <para>Thread-Local Storage</para>
540 </listitem>
541 </varlistentry>
542
543 <varlistentry>
544 <term><emphasis role="bold">UID</emphasis></term>
545 <listitem>
546 <para>User Identifier</para>
547 </listitem>
548 </varlistentry>
549
550 <varlistentry>
551 <term><emphasis role="bold">umask</emphasis></term>
552 <listitem>
553 <para>user file-creation mask</para>
554 </listitem>
555 </varlistentry>
556
557 <varlistentry>
558 <term><emphasis role="bold">USB</emphasis></term>
559 <listitem>
560 <para>Universal Serial Bus</para>
561 </listitem>
562 </varlistentry>
563
564 <varlistentry>
565 <term><emphasis role="bold">UTC</emphasis></term>
566 <listitem>
567 <para>Coordinated Universal Time</para>
568 </listitem>
569 </varlistentry>
570
571 <varlistentry>
572 <term><emphasis role="bold">UUID</emphasis></term>
573 <listitem>
574 <para>Universally Unique Identifier</para>
575 </listitem>
576 </varlistentry>
577
578 <varlistentry>
579 <term><emphasis role="bold">VC</emphasis></term>
580 <listitem>
581 <para>Virtual Console</para>
582 </listitem>
583 </varlistentry>
584
585 <varlistentry>
586 <term><emphasis role="bold">VGA</emphasis></term>
587 <listitem>
588 <para>Video Graphics Array</para>
589 </listitem>
590 </varlistentry>
591
592 <varlistentry>
593 <term><emphasis role="bold">VT</emphasis></term>
594 <listitem>
595 <para>Virtual Terminal</para>
596 </listitem>
597 </varlistentry>
598
599 </variablelist>
600
601</appendix>
Note: See TracBrowser for help on using the repository browser.