Glosario

Acrónimos

ADSL

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

AIFF

Audio Interchange File Format

ALSA

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture

API

Application Programming Interface

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ATA

AT-Attached

ATSC

Advanced Television Systems Committee

ATK

Accessibility ToolKit

BICS

Berkeley/IRCAM/CARL

BIND

Berkeley Internet Name Domain

BIOS

Basic Input/Output System

BLFS

Beyond Linux From Scratch

BMP

Bit MaP

CD

Compact Disk

CDDA

Compact Disc Digital Audio

CIFS

Common Internet File System

Ver también: SMB.

CODEC

COmpression/DECompression module

CORBA

Common Object Request Broker Architecture

CRD

Color Rendering Dictionary

CSA

Color Space Array

CSS (on DVD)

Contents Scrambling System

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets

CUPS

Common Unix Printing System

CVS

Concurrent Versions System

DES

Data Encryption Standard

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DIN

German Industrial Norm

DNS

Domain Name Service

DOS

Disk Operating System

DSO

Dynamic Shared Objects

DSSSL

Document Style Semantics and Specification Language

DVI

DeVice Independent

EPP

Enhanced Parallel Port

EPS

Encapsulated PostScript

ESD

Enlighten Sound Daemon

FAM

File Alteration Monitor

FAME

Fast Assembly Mpeg Encoder

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

FAX

Facsimile

FB

Frame Buffer

FHS

File Hierarchy Standard

FLAC

Free Lossless Audio CODEC

FO

Formatted Objects

FOURCCC

FOUR Character Code

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

GCC

GNU Compiler Collection

GDBM

GNU DataBase Manager

GDK

GTK+ Drawing Kit

GID

Group IDentity

GIF

Graphics Interchange Format

GMP

GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic

GNAT

GNU NYU Ada 9x Translator

GNOME

GNU Network Object Model Environment

GNU

GNU's Not Unix

GPL

General Public License

GPM

General Purpose Mouse

GTK

GIMP ToolKit

GUI

Graphical User Interface

HFS

Hierarchical File System

HTML

HyperText Markup Language

HTTP

HyperText Transfer Protocol

HUP

Hang UP

ICC

International Color Consortium

ICMP

Internet Control Message Protocol

IDE

Integrated Drive Electronics

IDL

Interface Definition Language

IJS

Ink Jet Systems

IMAP

Internet Message Access Protocol

IMON

Inode MONitor

IP

Internet Protocol

Ver también: TCP.

IPX

Internetwork Packet eXchange

IRC

Internet Relay Chat

IrDA

Infrared Data Association

ISDN

Integrated Services Digital Network

ISP

Internet Service Provider

JAR

Java ARchive

JDK

Java Development Kit

JFIF

JPEG File Interchange Format>

JPEG

Joint Photographic Experts Group

KDE

K Desktop Environment

LAME

Lame Ain't an MP3 Encoder

LAN

Local Area Network

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LDIF

Lightweight Data Interchange Format

LFS

Linux From Scratch

LGPL

Library General Public License

LPR

Line PRinter

LZO

Lemple-Ziv-Oberhumer

MD

Message-Digest

MDA

Mail Delivery Agent

MIDI

Musical Instrument Digital Interface

MIME

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

MNG

Multiple-image Network Graphics

MPEG

Moving Picture Experts Group

MTA

Mail Transport Agent

MUA

Mail User Agent

NASM

Netwide ASseMbler

NNTP

Network News Transfer Protocol

NFS

Network File System

OAF

Object Activation Framework

OMNI

OMNIdirectional

ORB

Object Request Broker

Ver también: CORBA.

ORDBMS

Object Relational Database Management System

OSS

Open Sound System

PAM

Pluggable authentication Modules

PCI

Peripheral Component Interconnect

PDC

Primary Domain Controller

PDF

Portable Document Format

PIM

Personal Information Manager

PGM

Portable Grey Map

PHP

PHP Hypertext Preprocessor

PGP

Pretty Good Privacy

PNG

Portable Network Graphics

POP

Post Office Protocol

PPD

PostScript Printer Description

PPM

Portable Pixel Map

PPP

Point to Point Protocol

PPPoE

Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet

RAM

Random Access Memory

RCS

Revision Control System

RFC

Request For Comments

RGB

Red Green Blue

ROM

Read-Only Memory

RP

Roaring Penguin

RPC

Remote Procedure Call

S/MIME

Secure/MIME

SANE

Scanner Access Now Easy

SASL

Simple Authentication and Security Layer

SBU

Static Binutils Units

SCCS

Source Code Control System

SCSI

Small Computer System Interface

SDK

Software Development Kit

SGML

Standard Generalized Markup Language

SMB

Server Message Block

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SOAP

Simple Object Access Protocol

SQL

Structured Query Language

SSH

Secure SHell

SSL

Secure Sockets Layer

SUID

Set User IDentity

SVG

Scalable Vector Graphics

SVGA

Super Video Graphics Array

TCL

Tool Command Language

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

TIFF

Tag(ged) Image File Format

TLS

Transport Layer Security

UDF

Universal Disk Format

UID

User IDentity

UDP

User Datagram Protocol

UI

User Interface

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

USB

Universal Serial Bus

USR

Upstream Ready

UUCP

Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol

VESA

Video Electronics Standards Association

VGA

Video Graphics Array

VOB

Video OBject

WWW

World Wide Web

XDMCP

X Display Manager Control Protocol

XML

eXtensible Markup Language

XSL

eXtensible Style Language

XSLT

eXtensible Style Language Transformation

XSM

X/Open System Management

XMMS

X MultiMedia System

YUV

Luminance-Bandwidth-Chrominance