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  <title>Acronyms and Terms</title>

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    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">ABI</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Application Binary Interface</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">ALFS</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Automated Linux From Scratch</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">ALSA</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Advanced Linux Sound Architecture</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">API</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Application Programming Interface</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">ASCII</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>American Standard Code for Information Interchange</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">BIOS</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Basic Input/Output System</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">BLFS</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Beyond Linux From Scratch</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">BSD</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Berkeley Software Distribution</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">chroot</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>change root</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">CMOS</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">COS</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Class Of Service</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">CPU</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Central Processing Unit</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">CRC</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Cyclic Redundancy Check</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">CVS</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Concurrent Versions System</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">DHCP</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">DNS</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Domain Name Service</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">EGA</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Enhanced Graphics Adapter</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">ELF</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Executable and Linkable Format</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">EOF</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>End of File</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">EQN</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>equation</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">EVMS</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Enterprise Volume Management System</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">ext2</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>second extended file system</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">ext3</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>third extended file system</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">FAQ</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Frequently Asked Questions</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">FHS</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Filesystem Hierarchy Standard</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">FIFO</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>First-In, First Out</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">FQDN</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Fully Qualified Domain Name</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">FTP</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>File Transfer Protocol</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">GB</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Gibabytes</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">GCC</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>GNU Compiler Collection</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">GID</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Group Identifier</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">GMT</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Greenwich Mean Time</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">GPG</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>GNU Privacy Guard</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">HTML</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Hypertext Markup Language</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">IDE</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Integrated Drive Electronics</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">IEEE</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">IO</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Input/Output</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">IP</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Internet Protocol</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">IPC</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Inter-Process Communication</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">IRC</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Internet Relay Chat</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">ISO</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>International Organization for Standardization</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">ISP</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Internet Service Provider</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">KB</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Kilobytes</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">LED</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Light Emitting Diode</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">LFS</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Linux From Scratch</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">LSB</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Linux Standard Base</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">MB</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Megabytes</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">MBR</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Master Boot Record</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">MD5</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Message Digest 5</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">NIC</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Network Interface Card</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">NLS</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Native Language Support</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">NNTP</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Network News Transport Protocol</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">NPTL</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Native POSIX Threading Library</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">OSS</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Open Sound System</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">PCH</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Pre-Compiled Headers</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">PCRE</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Perl Compatible Regular Expression</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">PID</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Process Identifier</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">PLFS</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Pure Linux From Scratch</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">PTY</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>pseudo terminal</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">QA</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Quality Assurance</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">QOS</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Quality Of Service</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">RAM</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Random Access Memory</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">RPC</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Remote Procedure Call</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">RTC</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Real Time Clock</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">SBU</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Standard Build Unit</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">SCO</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>The Santa Cruz Operation</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">SGR</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Select Graphic Rendition</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">SHA1</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Secure-Hash Algorithm 1</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">SMP</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Symmetric Multi-Processor</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">TLDP</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>The Linux Documentation Project</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">TFTP</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Trivial File Transfer Protocol</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">TLS</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Thread-Local Storage</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">UID</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>User Identifier</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">umask</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>user file-creation mask</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">USB</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Universal Serial Bus</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">UTC</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Coordinated Universal Time</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">UUID</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Universally Unique Identifier</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">VC</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Virtual Console</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">VGA</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Video Graphics Array</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis role="bold">VT</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>Virtual Terminal</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

  </variablelist>

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