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a-Linux

a-Linux is an x86 floppy-based mini-distribution, where assembly code meets Linux kernel. It contains only programs written in assembly language. It is extemely small, yet functional, and provides HTTP and FTP services out-of-the-box. Initial version 0.17 was released August 17, 2002. A floppy-based distribution. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

a2p

Awk to Perl translator From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

a2ps

GNU a2ps 'Anything to PostScript' converter and pretty-printer a2ps converts files into PostScript for printing or viewing. It uses a nice default format, usually two pages on each physical page, borders surrounding pages, headers with useful information (page number, printing date, file name or supplied header), line numbering, symbol substitution as well as pretty printing for a wide range of programming languages. Historically, a2ps started as a text to PostScript converter, but thanks to powerful delegations it is able to let you use it for any kind of files, ie it can also digest manual pages, dvi files, texinfo, .... Among the other most noticeable features of a2ps are: - various encodings (all the Latins and others), - various fonts (automatic font down loading), - various medias, - various printer interfaces, - various output styles, - various programming languages, - various helping applications, - and various spoken languages. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

a2ps

The a2ps filter converts text and other types of files to PostScript format. A2ps has pretty-printing capabilities and includes support for a wide number of programming languages, encodings (ISO Latins, Cyrillic, etc.), and media. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

a52dec

Utilities to extract and decode ATCS A/52 streams Utilities to extract and decode ATCS A/52 streams. The A/52 standard is used in a variety of applications, including digital television and DVD. It is also known as AC-3. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AA

Auto Answer (MODEM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

aa3d

An ASCII art stereogram generator This program generates the well known and popular random dot stereograms in ASCII art. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AAA

Authentication, Authorization and Accounting From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AAC

Advanced Audio Coding (IIS, MPEG) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AAC

Authorization and Access Control (IETF) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AAD

Authorized AutoCAD Dealer (AutoCAD, CAD) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AADN

American Association of DOMAIN Names (org., USA, Internet) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AAF

Advanced Authoring Format (MS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AAIS

Allied command europe ACCIS Implementation Strategy (ACCIS, NATO, mil.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AAL

ATM Adaption Layer (ATM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

aalib-bin

sample programs using aalib AAlib is a portable ascii art graphics library. Internally, it works like a graphics display, but the output is rendered into gorgeous platform independent ascii graphics. This package contains a few sample programs that use aalib. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AAM

Automatic Accoustic Management (ATA, HDD) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AAMSI

American Association for Medical Systems Informatics (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AAP

Address Allocation Protocol (Multicast) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AAP

Applications Access Point From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AAP

Association of American Publishers (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AARP

Appletalk Address Resolution Protocol (Apple, AppleTalk) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AASP

ASCII Asynchronous Support Package (ASCII) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AAT

Average Access Time From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AATP

Authorized Academic Training Program (MS, MCSD) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

aatv

A program to watch TV in a text-based console aatv is a program which allows you to watch TV in a text-based console, i.e. in a virtual console or in an xterm. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AAUI

Apple Attachment Unit Interface (Apple, AppleTalk) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ABA

American Bankers Association (org., USA, banking) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ABAP4

Advanced Business Application Programming/4 (SAP, R/3, 4GL), "ABAP/4" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ABATS

Automatic Bit Access Test System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ABBS

Apple Bulletin Board System (Apple) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ABC

Atanasoff-Berry-Computer From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

abc2ps

Translates ABC music description files to PostScript This is the Debian port of the abc2ps program by Michael Methfessel. The program translates tunes written in the ABC format to PostScript, which can then be viewed using Ghostview et al. or printed on a PostScript printer or through Ghostscript. It supports various semi-standard extensions to the ABC standard, such as multiple voices and staves. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ABCD

Altavista Business Card Directory (WWW) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

abcde

A Better CD Encoder A frontend program to cdparanoia, wget, cd-discid, id3, and your favorite Ogg or MP3 encoder (defaults to oggenc). Grabs an entire CD and converts each track to Ogg or MP3, then comments or ID3-tags each file, with one command. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

abcmidi

A converter from ABC to MIDI format and back This package contains the programs `abc2midi' and `midi2abc', which convert from the abc musical notation format to standard MIDI format and vice-versa. They can generate accompaniment from guitar chords in the abc file, as well as insert various MIDI events; the MIDI-to-abc translation tries to figure out bars, triplets and accidentals on its own. The package also contains `abc2abc' (an abc prettyprinter/transposer) and `mftext' (a program that will dump a MIDI file as text). The programs in this package are based on the `midifilelib' distribution available from http://www.harmony-central.com/MIDI/. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

abcmidi-yaps

Yet another ABC to PostScript converter This program translates tunes written in the ABC format to PostScript, which can then be viewed on screen or printed. It is essentially a (non-exclusive) alternative to abc2ps, being based on the abc2ps PostScript code together with the ABC parser from the abcmidi package. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ABEL

Advanced Boolean Expression Language From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ABEND

ABnormal END (Netware) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ABI

Application Binary Interface (POE) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ABI

Application Binary Interface: details the machine language of the CPU family as well as the calls between the application and the operating system. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

abicheck

binary compatibility checking tool ABIcheck is a tool for checking an application's compliance with a library's defined Application Binary Interface (ABI). It relies on ABI definition information contained in the library. Example definitions are given for GNOME and glibc. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ABIOS

Advanced Basic Input Output System (IBM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ABIST

Automatic Built In Self Test (IBM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

abiword

WYSIWYG word processor AbiWord is the first application of a complete, open source office suite. The upstream source includes cross-platform support for Win32, BeOS, and QNX as well as GTK+ on Unix. AbiWord is still being developed. It's quite usable but not yet full- featured or polished. For many applications, however, it should prove effective and efficient. This program includes support for reading Microsoft Word files, RTF files, and many other foreign file formats. Natively, it uses a custom XML-based file format. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ABM

Asynchronous Balanced Mode From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ABNF

Augmented Backus-Naur Form (BNF) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

abook

A text-based ncurses address book application. abook is a text-based ncurses address book application. It provides many different fields of user info. abook is designed for use with mutt, but can be used independently. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ABP

Address Book Provider (Internet) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ABR

Available Bit Rate (ATM, CBR, VBR, UBR, QOS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ABS

Apple Business Systems (Apple) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

absolute

Relating to file systems, the location of a directory or file that can be accessed regardless of the current working location of a user or program. For example, to access the Samba configuration file regardless of your current working directory, use the following absolute path: /etc/samba/smb.conf. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

absolute pathname

A pathname that explicitly identifies all directories from the root directory to an individual file. For example, pathname /home/linus/kernel/test refers to a file named test in directory kernel, which belongs to directory linus, which belongs to directory home, which belongs to the root directory /. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ABUI

Association of Banyan Users International (org., Banyan, VINES, user group, predecessor, ENA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AbulEdu

AbulEdu is a Mandrake-based distribution for primary schools. It is currently in French but most of the tools can be translated. An AbulEdu server can handle Mac (netatalk), Windows (samba), GNU/Linux and X terminal (with LTSP) clients. The server acts as a central gateway for Web, mail, and printing, and facilitates the management of classes, pupils, and teachers. Everybody can publish Web pages on an intranet using Apache and all administration tasks are performed using a browser. The result is that a teacher who is not a computer specialist can install and manage a school network. Stable version 1.0.7-II was released May 26, 2003. Development version 1.0.11 beta 4 was released October 7, 2002. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

abuse

Crack dot Com's Abuse action game. Abuse is a side scrolling shoot-em-up action game from Crack dot Com. This package contains the Abuse game engine, in X and full screen svga versions. It requires a mouse. This package is obsolete and will be removed later (if you still need it, contact the maintainer). Please use abuse-sdl instead. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AC

Access Concentrator (PPPoE, ADSL) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AC

Access Control (Token Ring, ...) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AC

Amiga Club (org., user group, Amiga) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AC

Area Code From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AC

Automatic Computer From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AC3

[digital] Audio Compression - 3 (Dolby, DVD, Digital audio), "AC-3" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AC97

Audio CODEC 97 (Intel, CODEC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACA

Asynchronous Communications Adapter From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACAD

AutoCAD (AutoCAD, CAD) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACAS

Application Control Architecture Services (DEC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACC

Area Communication Controller (MODACOM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACC

Atari Competence Center From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

access

check user's permissions for a file From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

access

determine whether a file can be accessed From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

access control (access)

Access control refers to controlling access by a user to a computer system, or data on that system. In formal terms, a "subject" (e.g. a user) attempts to access the "object" (e.g. system or data). An access control system will evaluate the security levels of the subject and object in order to see if access is permitted. Example: A simple example is the case where you enter a username and password in order to log onto the computer. Contrast: mandatory access control The system gives users "clearance levels", and assigns sensitivity levels to information. Therefore, if you only have "secret" clearance level, you cannot access "top-secret" information, but you can access "secret" or "confidential" information. See: Bell-LaPadula Model for more information. discretionary access control This system assigns subjects (users) to one or more groups. An object (system or file) contains a DACL (discretionary access control list) enumeration which users and groups may access the object. See: Access Control List for more information. Key point: There are different kinds of access. Read access means that somebody can read information, whereas write access implies that that somebody can change the data. For example, you can get a copy of your credit report and read it, but you can't necessarily change the data. From Hacking-Lexicon http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Access Control List (access, ACL)

Controlling access not only the system in general, but also resources within the system. For example, firewalls can be configured to allow access to different portions of the network for different users. Likewise, even after you log onto a file server, the server may still block access to certain files. Key point: An Access Control List (ACL) is used to list those accounts that have access to the resource that the list applies to. When talking about firewalls, the ACL implies the list of IP addresses that have access to which ports and systems through the firewall. When talking about WinNT, the ACL implies the list of users that can access a specific file or directory on NTFS. Contrast: Discretionary Access Control is the ability to have fine grained control over who has access to what resources. Misconception: Many people believe that firewall IP address rules or IEEE 802.11 MAC address rules form robust ACLs. However, since neither IP addresses or MAC addresses provide robust authentication, such ACLs provide only a weak form of security. When these so-called ACLs are relied upon for security, they frequently lead to compromises as people spoof their IP or forge their MAC address. From Hacking-Lexicon http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

access permissions

a set of permissions associated with every file and directory that determine who can read it, write to it, or execute it. Only the owner of the file (or the super-user) can change these permissions. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

accessdb

dumps the content of a man-db database in a human readable format. From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACCIS

Automated Command and Control Information System (mil., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACCM

Asynchronous Character Control Map (PPP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

account

a cominbation of login and password which is normally created by the system administrator. The creation of an account includes the assignment of a home directory. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Account Name

Same as Login ID, User ID, or User Name. The name assigned to a user on a UNIX/Linux system. Multiple users can be set up on a system with unique account names, each with varying access (permission) levels. After Linux installation, account names are assigned by the Superuser, or root operator. From I-gloss http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACCS

Army Command and Control System (mil., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

acct

The GNU Accounting utilities. The GNU Accounting utilities `ac', `accton', `last', `lastcomm', and `sa' add login and process accounting support to Debian Linux. "Login accounting" provides summaries of system resource usage based on connect time, and "process accounting" provides summaries based on the commands executed on the system. The 'last' command is provided by the Debian sysvinit package and not included here. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACCU

Association of C and C++ Users (org., UK) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACD

Automated Call Distribution (CTI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACDC

Alternating Current/Direct Current, "AC/DC" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACDI

Asynchronous Communications Device Interface (IBM, CM/2) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACE

Access Control Entry (AD) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACE

Advanced Computing Environment (manufacturer) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACE

ASCII Compatible Encoding (ASCII, Internet, DOMAIN) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACE

Autonomous Computer Engine (WD) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ace-of-penguins

Solitaire-games with penguin-look. From the author's intro.html: "The Ace of Penguins is a set of Unix/X solitaire games based on the ones available for Windows(tm) but with a number of enhancements that make my wife like my versions better :-)" The package consists of the games Pegged, Minesweeper, Solitaire, Taipei (together with a level editor), Golf, Mastermind, Merlin and Freecell. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACF

Access Control Field From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACF

Advanced Communications Function (IBM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACF

Apple Communications Framework (Apple) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

acfax

Receive faxes using your radio and sound card acfax allows you to receive faxes using your sound card. Typically you might use it to decode faxes sent over HF radio or from satellites. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACFC

Address and Control Field Compression (PPP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACFNCP

Advanced Communication Function / Network Control Program (IBM, ACF), "ACF/NCP" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACFTCAM

Advanced Communication Function / Telecommunications Access Method (IBM, ACF), "ACF/TCAM" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACFVTAM

Advanced Communication Function / Virtual Telecommunications Access Method (IBM, ACF), "ACF/VTAM" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACH

Association for Computers and the Humanities (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

achilles

An artificial life and evolution simulator Achilles is an artificial life and evolution simulator that uses Hebbian neural networks and OpenGL/SDL to simulate life in a simplified environment. It is based on Larry Yaeger's PolyWorld. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACIA

Associacio Catalana d'Intelligencia Artificial (org., Spain, AI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACIA

Asynchronous Communications Interface Adapter From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACID

Analysis Console for Intrusion Databases (IDS, CERT) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACID

Atomicity - Consistency - Isolation - Durability (DB, TP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

acidlab

Analysis Console for Intrusion Databases The Analysis Console for Intrusion Databases (ACID) is a PHP-based analysis engine to search and process a database of security events generated by various IDSes, firewalls, and network monitoring tools. The features currently include: o Query-builder and search interface for finding alerts matching on alert meta information (e.g. signature, detection time) as well as the underlying network evidence (e.g. source/destination address, ports, payload, or flags). o Packet viewer (decoder) will graphically display the layer-3 and layer-4 packet information of logged alerts o Alert management by providing constructs to logically group alerts to create incidents (alert groups), deleting the handled alerts or false positives, exporting to email for collaboration, or archiving of alerts to transfer them between alert databases. o Chart and statistic generation based on time, sensor, signature, protocol, IP address, TCP/UDP ports, or classification ACID has the ability to analyze a wide variety of events which are post-processed into its database. Tools exist for the following formats: o using Snort (www.snort.org) - Snort alerts - tcpdump binary logs o using logsnorter (www.snort.org/downloads/logsnorter-0.2.tar.gz) - Cisco PIX - ipchains - iptables - ipfw From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

acidwarp

This is a linux port of the popular dos program Acidwarp. Acidwarp is a program that makes neat looking pictures and rotates the palette. Its only use is for entertainment, but it is neat. I stumbled upon source code for Acidwarp on the net one day, and decided that it was high time someone ported it to linux. So, here it is. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACIS

American Commitee for Interoperable Systems (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACK

/ak/ interj. 1. [common; from the ASCII mnemonic for 0000110] Acknowledge. Used to register one's presence (compare mainstream Yo!). An appropriate response to ping or ENQ. 2. [from the comic strip "Bloom County"] An exclamation of surprised disgust, esp. in "Ack pffft!" Semi-humorous. Generally this sense is not spelled in caps (ACK) and is distinguished by a following exclamation point. 3. Used to politely interrupt someone to tell them you understand their point (see NAK). Thus, for example, you might cut off an overly long explanation with "Ack. Ack. Ack. I get it now". 4. An affirmative. "Think we ought to ditch that damn NT server for a Linux box?" "ACK!" There is also a usage "ACK?" (from sense 1) meaning "Are you there?", often used in email when earlier mail has produced no reply, or during a lull in talk mode to see if the person has gone away (the standard humorous response is of course NAK (sense 1), i.e., "I'm not here"). From Jargon Dictionary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ack

Kanji code converter ACK is a highly versatile Kanji code converter. ACK can do reciprocal conversion among Japanese EUC, Shift-JIS and 7bit JIS. JIS Kata-kana(SJIS Han-kaku Kana) is also supported. Kanji code can be automatically detected even if the input stream contains Kata-kana characters. Besides, ACK can be used as a Kanji code checker with very high detection rate. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACL

Access Control List (DCE, DFS, NDS, AD) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

acl

Access control list utilities This package contains the getfacl and setfacl utilities needed for manipulating access control lists. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACL

Advanced CMOS Logic From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACL

Agent Control Language (Agents) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACL

Association for Computational Linguistics (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACL

[MS] Access Compatibility Layer (MS, DB) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACLF

Access Control List Facility (DCE) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

aclocal

automatically generate aclocal.m4 from configure.in From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACM

Address Complete Message (ATM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACM

Association for Computing Machinery (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

acm4

A multi-player aerial combat simulation. acm is an air combat simulator that runs under the X window system. Up to eight players can engage in simultaneous air combat. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACME

A Company that Makes Everything (slang) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACMS

Application Control Management System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACO

AMP Communications Outlet From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACOPS

Automatic CPU Overheating Prevention System (GigaByte), "A-COPS" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

acorn-fdisk

Partition editor for Acorn/RISC OS machines Acorn-fdisk allows you to edit disk partitions on Acorn machines. It understands a variety of the partition tables formats used under RISC OS, including Filecore, ICS-IDE, EESOX and Powertec. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACOT

Apple Classrooms Of Tomorrow (Apple) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACP

Active Configuration Profile (MODEM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACP

Auxillary Control Process From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACPA

Audio Capture and Playback Adapter (IBM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACPC

Apple Communications Protocol Card (Apple) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACPI

(Advanced configuration and Power Interface) is an open industry specification co-developed by Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, and Toshiba. ACPI establishes industry-standard interfaces for OS-directed configuration and power management on laptops, desktops, and servers. ACPI evolves the existing collection of power management BIOS code, Advanced Power Management (APM) application programming interfaces (APIs, PNPBIOS APIs, Multiprocessor Specification (MPS) tables and so on into a well-defined power management and configuration interface specification. The specification enables new power management technology to evolve independantly in operating systems and hardware while ensuring that they continue to work together. From ACPI http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACPI

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (Intel, MS, Toshiba, ACPI, OSPM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACPICA

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface - Component Architecture (ACPI, Intel), "ACPI-CA" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

acpid

Utilities for using ACPI Modern computers support the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) to allow intelligent power management on your system and to query battery and configuration status. This package contains acpid, which is the user-space daemon needed in order to make the Linux ACPI support completely functional. In order to use this package you need a recent Kernel (=>2.4.7). This can be one including the patches on http://acpid.sourceforge.net or a non patched one. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACPT

Automated Corporate Planning Tool From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACR

Anonymous Call Rejection From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACR

Attenuation to Crosstalk Ratio (cable) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACR

Automatic Call Recording From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACRONYM

Abreviation by CROping Names that Yield Meaning (slang) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

acronym

an abbreviation. Examples of Linux related acronyms are KDE, ELF and GNU. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACS

Access Control System (DISA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACS

Advanced Communications System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

acs

Al's Circuit Simulator -- dummy package acs, Al's Circuit Simulator, has been renamed GNUCAP. This is a dummy package to force an upgrade to the new package name. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACS

Alternate character set From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACS

Architekten, Computer, Systeme (fair) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACS

Asynchronous Communication Server From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACS

Australian Computer Science From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACS

Australian Computer Society (org., Australia) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACSE

Association Control Service Element (OSI, ISO, DIS 8649) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACSI

Advanced/Atari Computer System Interface (Atari) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACSMIB

ATM Circuit Steering Management Information Base (ATM, MIB), "ACS-MIB" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACSNET

Academic Computing Services NETwork From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACSS

Aural Cascading Style Sheets (CSS, HTML, WWW) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACT

Architecture Characterization Template (DISA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACTA

America's Carriers Telecommunications Association (USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACTEF

ACcess TEchnologies Forum (org.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

activate

read/write flags marking active boot partition From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACTPU

ACTivate Physical Unit (SNA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACTS

Advanced Communications Technologies and Services (Europe, ACTS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACU

Automatic Calling Unit From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACU

Automatic Client Update (Novell, Netware) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ACUTA

Association of College and University Telecommunication Administrators (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AD

Active Directory (MS, WIndows, AD, DS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AD

Analog-to-Digital (D/A), "A/D" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AD

Authorized Distributor (DEC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AD

Autonomous DOMAIN From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ad-hoc

A wireless networking architecture in which there is no central access point. Nodes act as peers on the network and transmit information directly to recipient nodes. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADA

Automatic Data Acquisitions From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Ada

n. A Pascal-descended language that was at one time made mandatory for Department of Defense software projects by the Pentagon. Hackers are nearly unanimous in observing that, technically, it is precisely what one might expect given that kind of endorsement by fiat; designed by committee, crockish, difficult to use, and overall a disastrous, multi-billion-dollar boondoggle (one common description wss "The PL/I of the 1980s"). Hackers find Ada's exception-handling and inter-process communication features particularly hilarious. Ada Lovelace (the daughter of Lord Byron who became the world's first programmer while cooperating with Charles Babbage on the design of his mechanical computing engines in the mid-1800s) would almost certainly blanch at the use to which her name has latterly been put; the kindest thing that has been said about it is that there is probably a good small language screaming to get out from inside its vast, elephantine bulk. From Jargon Dictionary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

adacgi

Ada CGI interface This package lets you build CGI applications in Ada. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Adamantix

Adamantix, formerly known as TrustedDebian, aims to create a highly secure but usable Linux platform. To accomplish this, the project will use currently available security solutions for Linux (like kernel patches, compiler patches, security related programs and techniques) and knit these together to a highly secure Linux platform. The initial release, version 0.9, became available March 18, 2003. Version 1.0.1 was released June 12, 2003. A 'secured' distribution. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADAPSO

Association of Data Processing Service Organisation (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADAPT

Architecture Design, Analysis, and Planning Tool From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

adapter

a device that allows one system to connect to and work with another. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

adaptive compression

a data compression technique that dynamically adjusts the algorithm used based on the content of the data being compressed. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADATP

Allied DATa processing Publication (mil., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADB

A DeBugger (Unix) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADB

Apple Desktop Bus (Apple) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

adbbs

ad! BBS. A perl based bbs or easy menu system. aD! BBS was basically written to provide a nice, easy to use menu / bbs interface, currently it doesn't handle special permissions, group permissions, etc. but they are in the 'todo' list. Supports ANSI Color. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADBS

Advanced Data Broadcasting System (DirecPC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADC

Adaptive Data Compression (MODEM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADC

Analog to Digital Converter From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADC

Apple Display Connector (Apple) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADC

Apple Distribution Center (Apple) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADC

Automatic Data Capture From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADCCP

Advanced Data Communications Control Procedure (ANSI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADD

Adapter Device Driver (OS/2) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADDC

Automatic Data Direction Control (RS-485) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADDDC

Automatic Direct Distance Dialing System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

addgroup

add a user or group to the system From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

addr2line

convert addresses into file names and line numbers. From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

addressbook

Tk personal address manager Addressbook is an address manager meant to replace your old paper rolodex. It stores addresses, phone and fax numbers and can interact with some additional programs (i.e., for dialing) It has a nice user interface written in Tcl/Tk. The additional suggested software will enable additional functionality, such as automatic dialing, faxing, printing, etc. The program is still fully functional without any of the suggested software. Author: Clemens Durka <clemens@dagobah.de> Homepage: http://home.pages.de/~addressbook/ From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

adduser

Add and remove users and groups This package includes the adduser and deluser commands for creating and removing users. o Adduser can create new users and groups and add existing users to existing groups. o Deluser can remove users and groups and remove users from a given group. Adding users with adduser is much easier than adding them by hand. Adduser will choose appropriate UID and GID values, create a home directory, copy skeletal user configuration, allow you to set an initial password and the GECOS field. Deluser can optionally remove and backup the user's home directory and mail spool or all files on the system owned by him. Optionally a custom script can be executed after each of the commands. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADE

Application Development Environment From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADE

Aufforderung zur DatenEingabe (BTX) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADEPT

Administrative Data Entry for Processing Transmission (mil., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADES

Automatic Digital Encoding System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADEW

Andrew Development Environment Workbench (ATK, Unix) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADF

Access control Decision Function (mil., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADF

Automatic Document Feeder From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADI

Autocad Device Interface (CAD, AutoCAD) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADI

AUTODIN-to-DISN Interface (AUTODIN, DISN, mil., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADIMM

Asynchronous Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM, IC, Leadtek) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

adjtimex

Utility to display or set the kernel time variables This program gives you raw access to the kernel time variables. For a machine connected to the Internet, or equipped with a precision oscillator or radio clock, the best way to keep the system clock correct is with xntpd. However, for a standalone or intermittently connected machine, you may use adjtimex instead to at least correct for systematic drift. adjtimex can optionally adjust the system clock using the CMOS clock as a reference, and can log times for long-term estimation of drift rates. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADL

Adventure Description Language From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADL

[international conference on the] Advances in Digital Libraries (IEEE) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADLC

Asynchronous Data Link Control From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADM

Add-Drop-Multiplexer From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADMA

Area Division Multiple Access (mobile-systems) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADMD

ADministration Management DOMAIN (X.400) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

admesh

processing triangulated solid meshes Currently, ADMesh only reads the STL file format that is used for rapid prototyping applications, although it can write STL, VRML, OFF, and DXF files. Some features of admesh are: Fill holes in the mesh by adding facets. Repair facets by connecting nearby facets. Repair normal directions (i.e. facets should be CCW) Remove degenerate facets (i.e. facets with 2 or more vertices equal) Web site: http://www.varlog.com/products/admesh/ From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADMF

??? (UMTS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

admin

/ad-min'/ n. Short for `administrator'; very commonly used in speech or on-line to refer to the systems person in charge on a computer. Common constructions on this include `sysadmin' and `site admin' (emphasizing the administrator's role as a site contact for email and news) or `newsadmin' (focusing specifically on news). Compare postmaster, sysop, system mangler. From Jargon Dictionary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

admin

short for administrator, referring to the systems person responsible for the maintenance of a computer. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADMS

Access Device Messaging Specification (banking, Visa) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADMT

Active Directory Migration Tool (MS, AD) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

admwebuser

Manage Squid or Web users using a Web browser This utility allows you to manage Squid or Web users using only a simple Web browser. All the management tasks, including creating, changing, removing, enabling and disabling users can be performed through an easy-to-use Web interface. This package is also know as admuser but it was agreed that admwebuser would be a better package name to be used instead. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADN (Advanced Digital Network)

Usually refers to a 56Kbps leased-line. From Matisse http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADO

ActiveX Data Objects (ASP, ODBC, MS, IIS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADONIS

ADvanced On-Screen Information System, "AdonIS" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADP

Administrative Data Processing From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADP

Advanced Data Processing From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADP

Automatic Data Processing (ADP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADPCM

Adaptive Delta Pulse Code Modulation From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADPE

Automatic Data Processing Equipment (ADP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADPLO

Automated Data Processing Liaison Office (ADP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADPS

Automatic Data Processing System (ADP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADPT

Automated Data Processing/Telecommunications (ADP), "ADP/T" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADR

Advanced Digital Recording (Streamer, Philips, OnStream) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADS

Advanced Digital System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADS

Application Development System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADS

Automatic Distribution System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADS

Automatic Documenting System (LAN) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADS

Auxiliary Data System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADSI

Active Directory Service Interface (MS, COM, AD) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADSIA

Allied Data Systems Interoperability Agency (org., NATO, mil.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADSL

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line [technology] (BELLCORE, AT&T, DSL, ADSL) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADSL

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop is a high-speed Internet access technology that uses a commonly available telephone copper loop. ADSL provides data speeds from 384kbps to 1.5 Mbps, normally using different speeds for the upstream and downstream channel (hence the " Asymmetric" ). ADSL provides a direct, dedicated pipe to an ISP. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADSL

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop [modulation] From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADSP

Advanced Digital Signal Processor (DSP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADSP

Appletalk Data Stream Protocol (Apple, AppleTalk) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADSR

Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release [generator] (VCA, audio) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADSU

ATM Data Service Unit (ATM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADT

Abstract Data Type From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADT

Access Developer's Toolkit (MS, DB, Windows) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADT

Application Data Type From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADT

Application Development Tools (IBM, AS/400) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADT

Atlantic Daylight Time [-0300] (TZ, AST) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADU

Automatic Dialing Unit From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADUA

Administrative Directory User Agent From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADV

Automatisierte DatenVerarbeitung From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADV

staatliche Akademie fuer DatenVerarbeitung (org., Uni Boeblingen, Germany) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

advanced configuration and power interface (ACPI)

An industry specification that lets an operating system control power management and configuration to PC and server components. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

advanced graphics port (AGP)

Hardware interface for the acceleration of graphics to a display such as a monitor. AGP video cards display three-dimensional graphics faster than peripheral component interconnect (PCI) cards. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

advanced power management (APM)

Legacy power control and configuration specification for hardware in PCs and servers. APM as a standard has been replaced by ACPI. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface (ATAPI)

A system-level component interface used to connect CD-ROMs and tape drives to PCs and servers, as defined by the enhanced integrated drive electronics (EIDE) specification. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADVENT

/ad'vent/ n. The prototypical computer adventure game, first designed by Will Crowther on the PDP-10 in the mid-1970s as an attempt at computer-refereed fantasy gaming, and expanded into a puzzle-oriented game by Don Woods at Stanford in 1976. (Woods had been one of the authors of INTERCAL.) Now better known as Adventure or Colossal Cave Adventure, but the TOPS-10 operating system permitted only six-letter filenames. See also vadding, Zork, and Infocom. This game defined the terse, dryly humorous style since expected in text adventure games, and popularized several tag lines that have become fixtures of hacker-speak: "A huge green fierce snake bars the way!" "I see no X here" (for some noun X). "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike." "You are in a little maze of twisty passages, all different." The `magic words' xyzzy and plugh also derive from this game. Crowther, by the way, participated in the exploration of the Mammoth & Flint Ridge cave system; it actually has a `Colossal Cave' and a `Bedquilt' as in the game, and the `Y2' that also turns up is cavers' jargon for a map reference to a secondary entrance. ADVENT sources are available for FTP at ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/doc/misc/if-archive/games/source/advent.tar.Z. There is a Colossal Cave Adventure page. From Jargon Dictionary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

advi

a DVI previewer and presenter written in Objective Caml Active-DVI is a DVI previewer and presenter written in Objective Caml (http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/) with some eye candy effects for presentation, support for interactive demonstrations, and embedding of arbitrary applications within the presentation (hence the Active adjective of the presenter :). Active-DVI does not (yet) support postscript fonts (see the README.Debian for more details). Active-DVI also has the ability to run embedded commands, which may cause security problems when viewing untrusted DVI files. make sure to read the README.Debian for more information From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADVS

Automatisiertes DatenVerarbeitungsSystem From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ADX

Automatic Data eXchange From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AE

Apple Events (Apple) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AE

Application Entity / Environment / Execution / Engineering (APE) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AEA

American Electronics Association (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AEA

Asynchroner EmulationsAdapter (IBM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AEB

Analog Expansion Bus From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AEC

Advanced Error Correction (CD) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

aee

An easy to use screen-based editor aee (advanced easy editor) is intended to be an easy to use screen-based editor that requires no instruction to use. Its interface is highlighted by simple pop-up menus, which makes it easy for the users to carry out tasks without remembering the commands. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AEF

Access control Enforcement Function From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AEGIS

Advanced Electronic Guidance and Instrumentation System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

aegis

Advanced software management tool. Aegis integrates standard software tools such as gcc and cvs into an easy to use, extensible software management system. Aegis simplifies the problems associated with multiple developers and development trees using a transaction-based approach to version control, along with a web-browsable repository and an integrated testing mechanism. See aegis-doc for documentation, aegis-tk for a TK based user interface, and aegis-web for a web based user interface. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AEI

Application Enabling Interface (IBM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AEI

Automatic Equipment Identification From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AEIMP

Apple Event Interprocess Messaging Protocol (Apple) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AEM

Automatic Emulation Management (Brother) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AEOM

Apple Events Object Model (Apple) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AEPIA

Asociacion Espanola Para la Inteligencia Artificial (org., Spain, AI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

aeromail

Web-based e-mail client. AeroMail is a web-based e-mail client noted for its elegant interface. Other highlights include: - attachments - images - cookie-free http authentication. It is written in PHP using PHP's built in IMAP functions. Details at http://cushman.net/projects/aeromail/index.php From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AES

Advanced Encryption Standard (cryptography) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AES

Application Environment Service / Specification (OSF) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AES

Automatic Emulation Switching (Lexmark) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AES (Advanced Encryption Standard, Rijndael)

The United States encryption standard that replaces the older/weaker DES standard. Contrast: The main impetus behind AES to replace DES is the support for larger key sizes. DES uses 56-bit keys, which can be cracked in just a few minutes (in the year 2001). In contrast, AES supports 128-bit keys (as well as 192-bit and 256-bit). Whereas both DES and AES are fundamentally block-ciphers, AES is also designed to be an efficient stream-cipher and hash algorithm. Whereas DES was designed to be hardware based (software implementations are much slower), AES has been designed to be efficient in both software and hardware. In particular, implementations in ANSI C, Java, and x86 assembly language were important. Another important criteria was the ability for the algorithm to work within smart-cards with slow CPUs and limited memory. Key point: The NIST director in charge of selecting the AES algorithm says: "If Moore's law continues and quantum computing doesn't manifest itself, then I think this system will have a good 30 year run". Misconception: AES does not replace DES. In the 1980s, DES was the most used encryption algorithm. However, due to length of time it took the government to come up with a replacement standard, other encryption algorithms became widely used, such as RC2, RC4, Blowfish, IDEA, and Triple DES. Moreover, crypto has became very "pluggable", with many products supporting numerous simultaneous encryption algorithms. From Hacking-Lexicon http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AESEBU

Auto Engineering Society/European Broadcasting Union (Digital audio), "AES/EBU" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AETE

Apple Event Terminology Extension (Apple) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

aethera

Email and PIM application for KDE Aethera is a pim application, i.e. it handles all kinds of personal information: email, contacts, notes, tasks, todos, journals. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AEUT

Apple Event User Terminology (Apple) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

aewm

a minimalist window manager for X11 aewm is a minimalist window manager for X11. It has no nifty features, but is light on resources and extremely simple in appearance. It should eventually make a good reference implementation of the ICCCM. A few separate programs are included to handle running programs, switching between windows, etc. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

aewm++

minimal window manager written in C++ aewm++ is a minimal window manager for X11, based on aewm. It keeps aewm's minimalist look and feel but is written in C++, and adds some modern features like virtual desktops and partial GNOME support. Also included with this package: * appbar: a small application launcher * aewm++_fspanel: a very small panel * setrootimage: draws a gradient on the X root window * aewm++_xsession: keeps an X session alive From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

af

An Emacs-like mail reader and composer. Af is a standalone mail reader which has an Emacs-like interface by default. It has good facilities for handling folders, and commands for handling groups of messages in a single operation. Af is aimed primarily at Emacs users and people who deal with large amounts of mail daily, but other people have found it useful too. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AF

Auxiliary carry Flag (assembler) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AFAIC

As Far As I'm Concerned (slang, Usenet, IRC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AFAICR

As Far As I Can Recall (DFUe, Usenet, IRC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AFAICT

As Far As I Can Tell (DFUe, Usenet, IRC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AFAIK

As Far As I Know (slang, Usenet, IRC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AFAIR

As Far As I Recall / Remember (slang, Usenet, IRC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AFAMPE

[u.s.] Air Force Automated Message Processing Exchange (org., USA. mil.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

afbackup

Client-Server Backup System (Server side) This is a client-server backup system offering several workstations a centralized backup to a special backup server. Backing up only one computer is easily possible, too. Any streaming device can be used for writing the data to it, usually this will be a tape device. Writing backups is normally done sequentially: The next writing to tape goes to the end of the previous write no matter where you have restored from in the meantime. Features: - Authentication of the client is performed before it can take over control - Access restriction for the streamer device -> security - Client-side per-file compression -> reliability - Data stream is written to tape in pieces -> fast finding of files - Tape position logging for each file - Tape capacity is fully used - Full / incremental backups - Raw partitions can be backed up - Client and Server buffering for maximal throughput is done Note: Tk is required if you want to use the graphical configuration tool instead of the text configuration tool. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AFC

AntiFerromagnetically Coupled [technology] (IBM, HDD) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AFC

Application Foundation Classes (MS, GUI, Java) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AFC

Automatic Font Change From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AFCET

Association Francaise pour la Cybernetique Economique et Technique (org., France) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AFD

Automatic File Distribution From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AFE

Apple File Exchange (Apple) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AFEB

AFrican EDIFACT Board (org., EDIFACT), "AF/EB" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

affiche

application to "stick" little notes on the desktop. Affiche is a little application that allows people to "stick" little notes on their computer desktop. It was made for the GNUstep environment. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AFI

Authority and Format Indicator (NSAP, IDP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AFI

Authority Frame Identifier From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AFII

Association for Font Information Interchange (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AFIN

Air Force Information Network (network, USA, mil.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

afio

Archive file manipulation program. Afio manipulates groups of files, copying them within or between filesystems and an afio archive. Afio archives are portable as they contain only ASCII-formatted header information. Afio makes cpio-format archives. Afio deals somewhat gracefully with input data corruption. Afio supports multi-volume archives during interactive operation. Afio can make compressed archives that are much safer than compressed tar or cpio archives. Afio is best used as an `archive engine' in a backup script. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AFIS

AutomatisiertesFingerabdruck-InformationsSystem (INPOL) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AFK

Away from Keyboard (slang, Usenet, IRC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

afm2tfm

convert Adobe font metrics to TeX font metrics From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AFNET

Air Force Network (network, USA, mil.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AFP

Advanced Function Presentation (IBM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AFP

Appletalk Filing Protocol (Apple, AppleTalk) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AFPA

Advanced Function Printing Architecture (IBM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AFPDS

Advanced Function Printing Data Stream (IBM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AFT

Authenticated Firewall Traversal (IETF) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

afterstep

A window manager with the NEXTSTEP look and feel. AfterStep is a window manager based on FVWM which attempts to emulate the NEXTSTEP look and feel, while retaining the configurability of its predecessor. Note that this window manager makes extensive use of the color palette. If you have only an 8-bit color display, it will run as packaged, but you may want to modify the configuration to use fewer colors. AfterStep is a continuation of the BowMan window manager project, but the name was changed to reflect the desire that it do more than simply emulate and become a valuable window manager in its own right. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AfterStep

One of several user interfaces (window managers), AfterStep makes Linux look and feel much like NeXTSTEP, with enhancements. For more on AfterStep, go to www.afterstep.org. (Also, see Enlightenment, GNOME, KDE, and X Window System.) From I-gloss http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AFTP

Anonymous File Transfer Protocol (FTP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AFUU

Association Francaise des Utilisateurs d'Unix (org., France, Unix) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AGA

Advanced Graphics Adapter From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

agbrowser

The KDE2 frontend to the AudioGalaxy Linux client. AGBrowser is a program to complement the official satellite program for Linux from AudioGalaxy. By using AGBrowser, every dependency on another program to search for, download, share, and manage mp3s has been satisfied. AGBrowser requires the use of the non-open, non-free AudioGalaxy Satellite software. The installer is available as a Debian package, agsatellite. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AGC

Automatic Gain Control (audio) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AGCH

Access Grant CHannel (GSM, CCCH, mobile-systems) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Agenda-VR

there are two versions of the VR3d. One was released in December 2000 in the U.S., and the "Second Edition" was released in January 2001 in the U.S. and in Germany. Agenda Computing was scheduled to complete development in the spring of 2002, but their website seems to have disappeared [July 22, 2002]. Handhelds/PDA based distribution. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AGEP

ArbeitsGemeinschaft Elektronisches Publizieren [e.v.] (org., DTP), "AgEP" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AGF

Arbeitsgemeinschaft der GrossForschungseinrichtungen [deutschlands] (org.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AGFMB

ArbeitsGemeinschaft Freier MailBoxen (org.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

aggregate

CIDR network aggregation and filtering aggregate is a tool for aggregating CIDR networks. Input is read from stdin and output is written to stdout. It understands IPv4 networks represented as network/prefix, network/netmask and start_address - end_address. It is able to read input in any one of these formats and output in the same or a different format. It is also able to limit the maximum and minimum prefix length that will be output. This can be used to filter, for instance ignoring all networks with a prefix longer than 24 bits. That is all networks smaller than a traditional Class C. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AGNS

AT&T Global Network Services (AT&T) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AGP

Advanced / Accelerated Graphics Port (Intel, MMX, AGP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

agsatellite

Audiogalaxy Satellite (installer) The Audiogalaxy Satellite is a small and simple program that allows you to share your music with friends and other users on Audiogalaxy. Audiogalaxy does not allow redistribution of their software. Therefore, this package requires the user to fetch the Audiogalaxy Satellite separately from their web site. When you install this package you will be guided through that process. This package installs the file AGSatellite0520-glibc21.tar.gz from the www.audiogalaxy.com website (look for "Download Satellite"). From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AH

[IP] Authentication Header (IPSEC, IPV6, RFC 1826, VPN) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AHIMA

American Health Information Management Association (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AHP

Analytical Hierachy Process From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AHPCRC

Army High Performance Computing Research Center (org., USA, HPC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AI

/A-I/ n. Abbreviation for `Artificial Intelligence', so common that the full form is almost never written or spoken among hackers. From Jargon Dictionary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AI

Adobe Illustrator (Adobe) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AI

Artificial Intelligence From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AIA

Application Integration Architecture From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AIBO

Artificial Intelligence roBOt (Sony, AI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AIC

AIX windows Interface Composer (AIX, IBM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AIC

[SRI] Artificial Intelligence Center (SRI, AI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AICA

Associazione Italiana per l'Informatica ed il Calcolo Automatico (org., Italy) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AID

Application IDentifier (APDU) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AID

Attention Interrupt ??? [key] (IBM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AID

AUTODIN Interface Device (AUTODIN, mil., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AIDA

Aktuelle Informationen in Deutsch zum Amiga (AC, Amiga) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AIDAT

African Internet Development Action Team (org., Internet) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

aide

Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment AIDE creates a database from the regular expression rules that it finds from the config file. Once this database is initialized it can be used to verify the integrity of the files. It has several message digest algorithms (md5,sha1,rmd160,tiger,haval,etc.) that are used to check the integrity of the file. More algorithms can be added with relative ease. All of the usual file attributes can also be checked for inconsistencies. You will almost certainly want to tweak the configuration file in /etc/aide/aide.conf. See manual.html for information on this file. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AIDS

Automatic Installation and Diagnostic Service From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AIFF

Audio Interchange File Format From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AII

Active Input Interface (UNI, PMD, FDDI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AIIA

Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale (org., Italy, AI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AIIM

Association for Information and Image Management (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AIM

Advanced Invar Mask (Display, ViewSonic) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AIM

Alternate Input Method (OS/2) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AIM

AOL Instant Messenger [protocol] (AOL) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AIM

Apple, IBM, Motorola [consortium] (Apple, IBM, Motorola, org.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AIM

Association of Imaging Manufacturers (org.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AIM

ATM / Ascend Inverse Multiplexing [protocol] (ATM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AIM

Automatic Interface Management (Brother) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

AIMD

Additive-Increase Multiplicative-Decrease (TCP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

aime

Advanced Intera