N

NAB

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

NAC

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

NAC

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

NAC

Null Attached Concentrator (FDDI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NACLP

North American Conference on Logic Programming (USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NACM

Networks And Communications Marketing From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NACS

National Advisory Committee on Semiconductors (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NACS

Netware Asynchronous Communication Server (Novell, Netware) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NACS

Network Access Control System (Netware, DES, cryptography) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NACSIS

National Academic Center for Science Information Systems (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NACT

Neural Adaptive Control Technology [project] (NN) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NAD

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

NADB

National Archeological DataBase (DB, USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NAEC

Novell Authorized Education Center (Novell, Netware) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NAG

National Algorithms Group [ltd] (UK, org.), "NAg" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NAG

Network Architecture Group (org.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nagware

/nag'weir/ n. [Usenet] The variety of shareware that displays a large screen at the beginning or end reminding you to register, typically requiring some sort of keystroke to continue so that you can't use the software in batch mode. Compare annoyware, crippleware. From Jargon Dictionary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NAI

Netzwerk Arbeitswelt Informatik (manufacturer) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nail

BSD mail(1) supporting MIME, SMTP and international charsets Workalike of the classical mail(1). Nail can produce and read MIME messages and has greatly improved character-set handling, including support for UTF-8. Without a mail-transport-agent you won't be able to receive mail, though sending works perfectly well (look for the 'smtp' variable in nail(1)). From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NAL

Netware Application Launcher (Novell, Netware, NAM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NALIS

Nevada Academic Libraries Information System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NAM

Netware Application Manager (Novell, Netware, NAL) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

namazu2

Full text search engine (namazu binary and cgi) Namazu is a full text search engine with is usable via cgi. It features a simple and easy setup, and is written in C and Perl. Namazu uses the text utilities nkf and kakasi (or chasen, which is not available in Debian). This package includes binary only for search index. To create indexes, please install namazu2-index-tools package. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

name

These tools will provide you with the IP addresses for given host names,as well as other information about registered domains and network addresses. You should install bind-utils if you need to get information from DNS nameservers. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

name server

A system that uses domain name system (DNS) to translate an assigned name into its associated IP address, and vice versa. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

named

Internet domain name server From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

named-checkconf

named configuration file syntax checking tool From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

named-checkzone

zone file validity checking tool From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

namei

follow a pathname until a terminal point is found From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nameif

name network interfaces based on MAC addresses From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NAMS

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

nana

GNU Nana -- improved support for assertions and logging GNU Nana is a freely available library providing improved support for assertions and logging in GNU C/C++. In particular: * Space/time efficient assertion checking * Space/time efficient program logging * Code-to-HTML converter giving only details of your interface and pre/postconditions (similar to Eiffel short form). * Statement and function-level tracing under GDB. * Logging via inline C code (as in <assert.h>) or by extraction of commands for gdb which results in no performance cost unless running in the debugger. It was written by the author because he has written too many of these systems in the past for individual projects and has finally gotten tired of it. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nano

free Pico clone with some new features GNU nano is a free replacement for Pico, the default Pine editor. Pine is copyrighted under a slightly restrictive license, that makes it unsuitable for Debian's main section. GNU nano is an effort to provide a Pico-like editor, but also includes some features that were missing in the original, such as 'search and replace', 'goto line' or internationalization support. As it's written from scratch, it's smaller and faster. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NAP

Acronym for Network Access Point, the major internet providers usually have peering points at one or more NAPs. From KADOWKEV http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nap

Napster console client Napster console client. The advantage of nap over other graphical clients like gnome-napster is that you can run it under screen(1) on a remote host and disconnect from your session while nap continues the downloads. You can later reconnect to your running client even from another host and do more commands. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NAP

Network Access Point (IN) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NAPLPS

North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax (BBS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NAPT

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

NARP

Non-Broadcast Multiple Access Address Resolution Protocol (RFC 1735) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NAS

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

NAS

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

NAS

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

NAS

Network Attached Storage From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nas

The Network Audio System (NAS). (local server) The Network Audio System was developed by NCD for playing, recording, and manipulating audio data over a network. Like the X Window System, it uses the client/server model to separate applications from the specific drivers that control audio input and output devices. This package contains the nas daemon (au), needed for local output from nas. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nase-a60

An Algol-60 interpreter Algol-60 is the ancestor to most contemporary programming languages. It has been described by one of its designers, Edsger Dijkstra, as "a great improvement on many of its successors". The main attraction of this language is its historical importance. The present package contains a simple interpreted reimplementation of the Algol 60 language, "made for fun and call-by-name". From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NASI

Netware Asynchronous Service Interface (Novell, Netware) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nasm

General-purpose x86 assembler Netwide Assembler. NASM will currently output flat-form binary files, a.out, COFF and ELF Unix object files, and Microsoft 16-bit DOS and Win32 object files. Also included is NDISASM, a prototype x86 binary-file disassembler which uses the same instruction table as NASM. NASM is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nasm

NASM is the Netwide Assembler, a free portable assembler for the Intel 80x86 microprocessor series, using primarily the traditional Intel instruction mnemonics and syntax. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nasm-rdoff

Tools for the operating-system independent RDOFF binary format, whichis sometimes used with the Netwide Assembler (NASM). These tools include linker, library manager, loader, and information dump. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NAT

[IP] Network Address Translator (RFC 1631, IP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NAT (Network Address Translation)

NAT is a way of providing access to the Internet through a single machine that translates the IP addresses. The NAT itself has one or more IP addresses, but all the machines behind the NAT have "private" Internet addresses. Contrast: A NAT provides some firewalling capabilities because isolates the end-nodes while still providing access to the Internet. The isolation is better than packet-filter firewalls, but not as good as proxies. From Hacking-Lexicon http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

native file format

The default file format a program uses to store data on disk. The format is often a proprietary file format. Many popular programs today can retrieve and save data in several formats. See ASCII. Computer scientists are working to improve computers so that they can respond to natural language. Human languages are so complex that no single model of a natural language grammar system has gashed widespread acceptance among linguists. The complexity OF human languages, coupled with the lack of under standing about what information is needed to decode human sentences, makes it difficult to devise programs that recognize speech. Progress in solving these problems has been slow. From QUECID http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NATOA

National Association of Telecommunications Officers & Advisors (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NAU

Network Addressable Unit (IBM, SNA, OSI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NAU

Network Attachment Unit (GigaB, IP-router) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NAUN

Nearest Active Upstream Neighbour (MAC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nautilus

file manager and graphical shell Nautilus is an open-source file manager and graphical shell being developed by Eazel, Inc. and others. It is part of the GNOME project, and its source code can be found in the GNOME CVS repository. Nautilus is still in the early stages of development. It will become an integral part of the GNOME desktop environment when it is finished. Nautilus has the own BTS at http://bugzilla.eazel.com/ If you find the upstream problem (not packaging problem!!), please use it instead of Debian BTS. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nautilus

Nautilus integrates access to files, applications, media, Internet-based resources and the Web. Nautilus delivers a dynamic and rich user experience. Nautilus is a free software project developed under the GNU General Public License and is a core component of the GNOME desktop project. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nautilus

Nautilus is an excellent file manager for the GNOME desktop environment. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NAVNET

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

nawk

pattern scanning and text processing language From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nawm

Non-windowmanager with windowmanager functionality nawm is not a window manager. It has a powerful configuration language for using windowmanager-like functionality. Because it is not a windowmanager, nawm can be run along side you existing windowmanager. Great for making up for missing functionality without having to change to a whole new windowmanager. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NB

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

NBCD

Natural Binary Coded Decimal From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nbd

Network Block Device client This package contains the client process for the Network Block Device. The Network Block Device is a client/server protocol that emulates a block device (like a hard disk, a floppy, a CD-ROM, ...) over the network, thus giving the system the ability to swap over the network, or to use raw network diskspace for other purposes. Note, however, that it is not possible to access a single networked block device from different clients simultaneously; if you want that, you don't need the Network Block Device (which, basically, is a Disk Server protocol) but something else, like Sun's Network File System (NFS), or CODA. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NBDD

NetBIOS Datagram Distribution [server] (NETBIOS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NBE

Not-Below-or-Equal From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nbfc

New BF Compiler The New BrainF*** compiler can compile code from the BF language into C, and from there into native machine code. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NBFCE

NETBIOS Frames Control Program (NETBIOS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NBFCP

[PPP] NETBIOS Frames Control Protocol (PPP, NETBIOS, RFC 2097) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NBFM

Narrow Band Frequency Modulation From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NBMA

Non-Broadcast Multiple Access (UNI, ATM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NBNS

NetBIOS Name Server (NETBIOS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NBP

Name Binding Protocol (AppleTalk) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NBROK

If you have an unused 100 or 250 MB ZIP-drive around, give it a new goal. Use it to run Linux. No hard disk or ramdisk required. A Zip disk-based distribution. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NBS

Narrow Band Socket (Intel, Nokia) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NBS

National Bureau of Standards (org., predecessor, NIST) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NBT

NETBIOS on TCPIP (MS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nbtscan

A program for scanning networks for NetBIOS name information. NBTscan is a program for scanning IP networks for NetBIOS name information. It sends NetBIOS status query to each address in supplied range and lists received information in human readable form. For each responded host it lists IP address, NetBIOS computer name, logged-in user name and MAC address (such as Ethernet). From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nc

Client program for NEdit text editor From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NC

Network Channel / Connect / Control From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NC

Network Co-ordinator (FidoNet) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NC

Network Computer [reference profile] (Apple, IBM, Netscape, Oracle, Sun, Internet) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NC

Norton Commander (Symantec) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NC

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

nc

TCP/IP swiss army knife From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCA

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

NCA

Network Computing Architecture (Oracle) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCA

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

NCA

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

NCAIR

National Center for Automated Information Research (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ncal

displays a calendar and the date of easter From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCAM

National Center for Accessible Media (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCB

Network Control Block (LAN) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCC

Network Control / Coordination Center From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCC

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

NCCF

Network Communications Control Facility (IBM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCCS

NASA Center for Computational Sciences (org., NASA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCD

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

NCD

Norton Change Directory (DOS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ncdt

Display directory tree NcdT displays directory tree, much like standard tree(1), but with few improvements: - it prints summary info instead of directory special file size - it prints MP3 file info It's particularly useful for indexing CDs. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCE

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

ncftp

A user-friendly and well-featured FTP client. This program allows a user to transfer files to and from a remote network site, and offers additional features that are not found in the standard interface, ftp. This version has Readline support enabled. This is a complete re-write of version 2.4.3 (Debian package ncftp2). Some users may prefer the full-screen ncurses interface of the "older" NcFTP 2.4.3; if you are one of them, install the ncftp2 package instead. Home Page: http://www.ncftp.com/ncftp/ From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ncftp

Ncftp is an improved FTP client. Ncftp's improvements include support for command line editing, command histories, recursive gets, automatic anonymous logins, and more. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCGA

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

NCHPC

National Consortium for High Performance Computing (org., HPC, USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCI

Network Channel Interface From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCI

Non Coded Information From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCIA

Native Client Interface Architecture (IOS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCIP

Novell Certified Internet Professional (Novell, WWW, CNA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCITS

National Committee for Information Technology Standards (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCL

Null Convention Logic (CPU) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCMOS

N-channel [Silicon Gate Reversed] CMOS From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCN

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

nco

netCDF Operators NCO is a suite of programs known as operators. Each operator is a standalone, command line program that is executed at the UNIX shell-level. The operators take one or more netCDF files as input, perform an operation (e.g., averaging or hyperslabbing), and produce a netCDF file as output. The operators are primarily designed to aid manipulation and analysis of data. This reflects their origin, but the operators are as general as netCDF itself. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCOHPCC

National Coordination Office for High Performance Computing and Communications (org., USA, HPC), "NCO/HPCC" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCOS

Network Computer Operating System (OS, Oracle, Internet) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCOS

Non-Concurrent Operating System (OS, UNIVAC 9200, UNIVAC 9300) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCP

Netware Core Protocol (Novell, IPX) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCP

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

NCP

Network Control Program (BBN, ARPANET) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCP

Network Control Program / Point (IBM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCP

Non-Carbon Paper From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCP

Not Copy-Protected From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCPE

Netware Core Protocol Extension (NCP, Netware, IPX) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ncpfs

Utilities to use resources from NetWare servers. This package contains utilities to mount volumes from NetWare servers. Also included are some little utilities such as nprint, which enables you to print on NetWare print queues, and pserver, which provides NetWare print queues. Package ncpfs-2.0.12 and above replaces package ncpfsx. This package will work with 2.0.x, 2.1.x, 2.2.x, 2.3.x and 2.4.x kernels. Also, NetWare Directory Services are supported in ncpfs-2.0.12 and above. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCPIE

National Council on Patient Information and Education (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ncps

A process-killer for console ncps is a ncurses based process-lister and -killer for console inspired by gPS. It can sort processes according to various criteria and can also display them in tree view. It is much more powerful than gitps of the GNU Interactive Tools. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCR

National Cash Registers (manufacturer, AT&T) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCS

National Communications System (USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCS

Network Computing System (HP, Apollo) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCS

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

NCSA

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications)

A supercomputer research center, affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-champaign that specializes in scientific visualization. NCSA most recently achieved fame as the birthplace of NCSA Mosaic, the popular Web browser. From QUECID http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCSC

National Computer Security Center (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCSC

North Carolina Supercomputing Center (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCSI

Network Communications Service Interface (NMP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCSL

National Computer Systems Laboratory (NIST, org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCSL

National Conference of Standards Laboratories (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCSNDR

Network Computing System Network Data Representation (HP, Apollo), "NCS NDR" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCSS

Non Commentary Sources Statements (LOC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCSS

Number Crunching Statistical System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCSTRL

Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library (WWW) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCT

Network Control and Timing From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCTE

Network Channel-Terminating Equipment From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NCTL

National Computer and Telecommunications Laboratory (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ncurses

The curses library routines are a terminal-independent method of updating character screens with reasonable optimization. The ncurses (new curses) library is a freely distributable replacement for the discontinued 4.4BSD classic curses library. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nd

Tiny little command line WebDAV interface nd provides a simple command line interface to the RFC 2518 (WebDAV) server. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NDA

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

NDA

Non-Disclosure Agreement From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NDA

Norddeutsche DatenAutobahn (network) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NDBMS

Network DataBase Management System (DB) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NDBS

Non-standard DataBase System (DB) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NDC

National Destination Code (MS-ISDN, GSM, mobile-systems) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NDC

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

NDC

Node Data Controller (Zenith) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NDCC

Network Data Collection Center From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NDD

Norton Disk Doctor [software] From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NDDL

Neutral Data Definition Language (DDL) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NDE

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

NDI

Network Distributed ISDN [for windows NT] (AVM, ISDN, Windows NT) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ndiff

Compares two nmap scans NDiff is a tool that can take the output from two nmap scans and give you the difference between them. The difference can be new or removed hosts and services. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NDIS

Network Driver Interface Specification (3COM, MS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NDL

Network Database Language (DB, 4GL) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NDM

Normal Disconnected Mode (IRDA, IRLAP, NRM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NDMP

Network Data Management Protocol From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NDMS

Netware Distributed Management Services (Novell, Netware) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NDP

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

NDPA

Network Problem Determination Application From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NDR

Network Data Representation (NCS, DCE) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NDR

Network Data Representation service (DCE/RPC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NDR

Non-Destructive Read From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NDRO

Non-Destructive ReadOut From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NDS

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

NDS

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

NDT

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

NDT

Newfoundland Daylight Time (TZ, NFT) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NDT

Non-Destructive Testing From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ndtpd

server for accessing CD-ROM books with NDTP NDTPD is a server for accessing CD-ROM books with NDTP (Network Dictionary Transfer Protocol) on TCP. You can replace dserver with NDTPD. NDTPD can run on UNIX derived systems. It supports CD-ROM books of EB, EBG, EBXA, EBXA-C, S-EBXA and EPWING formats. CD-ROM books of those formats are popular in Japan. Since CD-ROM books themselves are stands on the ISO 9660 format, you can mount the discs by the same way as other ISO 9660 discs. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NDU

Network Device Utility From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NE

Network Element From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

ne

Nice Editor, an easy-to-use and powerful editor NE is one of the few editors being both easy to use for the beginner and powerful enough for the wizard. It uses short, intuitive and easy to remember key bindings while providing all the features an editor should have. It is fully configurable allowing the user to change the content of the various menus, to easily create small macros and to easily change the existing key bindings while being a small and fast editor. It was written by Sebastiano Vigna and Todd Lewis. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NEA

??? [protocol stack on OSI transport layer] From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NEAR

National Electronic Accounting and Reporting From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NEARNET

New England Academic and Research NETwork (USA, network), "NEARnet" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NEAT

New Enhanced Advanced Technology (AT) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NEAT

Novell Easy Administration Tool (Novell, Netware) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NEC

National Electrical Code (USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nec

NEC2 Antenna Modelling System The NEC2 (Numerical Electromagnetics Code) is software for modelling antennas using the Method of Moments. It was developed at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, and remains widely used, despite the old fashioned punched card style input required. This version contains code which hasn't been extensively tested for errors, which was input by hand from a report -- use with care. The numerics are currently only SINGLE PRECISION. User's documentation is provided in HTML format (based on OCR text so beware of potential errors. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NEC

Nippon Electronic Corporation (manufacturer) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NED

NASA Extragalactic Database (DB) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nedit

A powerful, customizable, Motif based text editor. NEdit is a multi-purpose text editor for the X Window System, which combines a standard, easy to use, graphical user interface with the thorough functionality and stability required by users who edit text eight hours a day. It provides intensive support for development in a wide variety of languages, text processors, and other tools, but at the same time can be used productively by just about anyone who needs to edit text. Users of Macintosh and MS Windows based text editors will find NEdit a familiar and comfortable environment. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nedit

Text Editor From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nedit-nc

Client program for NEdit text editor From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NEDO

New Energy and industrial technology Development Organization (org., Japan) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NEFS

Network Extensible File System, "NeFS" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NEII

National Engineering Information Initiative (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NEM

Nothing Else Matters (slang, Usenet, IRC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nemesis

TCP/IP Packet Injection Suite The Nemesis Project is designed to be a commandline-based, portable human IP stack for UNIX/Linux. The suite is broken down by protocol and should allow for useful scripting of injected packet streams from simple shell scripts. Key features: * support for ARP, DNS, ICMP, IGMP, OSPF, RIP, TCP, UDP protocols * layer 2 or layer 3 injection * packet payload from file From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NeoLinux

NeoLinux - Neoware's embedded Linux for information appliances. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NEP

Never-Ending Program From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

neqn

format equations for ascii output From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NEREN

NEbraska Research and Education Network (USA, network) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NES

News Electronic Service From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NESPINN

NEurocomputer fuer Spikende Neuronale Netze (TUB) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nessus

Remote network security auditor, the client The Nessus Security Scanner is a security auditing tool. It makes possible to test security modules in an attempt to find vulnerable spots that should be fixed. It is made up of two parts: a server, and a client. The server/daemon, nessusd, is in charge of the attacks, whereas the client, nessus, provides the user a nice X11/GTK+ interface. This package contains the GTK+ 1.2 client, which exists in other forms and on other platforms, too. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nessusd

Remote network security auditor, the server The Nessus Security Scanner is a security auditing tool. It makes possible to test security modules in an attempt to find vulnerable spots that should be fixed. It is made up of two parts: a server, and a client. The server/daemon, nessusd, is in charge of the attacks, whereas the client, nessus, provides the user a nice X11/GTK+ interface. This package contains the nessusd server, which must be run as root. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NEST

Netware Embedded Systems Technology (Novell, Netware) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nestra

Nintendo Entertainment System emulator Nestra is a dynamic recompiler which translates 6502 code into native code to emulate a Nintendo Entertainment System. Execution of the translated code is quite fast, and the emulator can run at full speed with relatively modest CPU requirements. To use this program, you need NES ROMs which are not included. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NET

Network Entity Title From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Net surfer

Someone who browses the Internet with no definite destination. From Glossary of Distance Education and Internet Terminology http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

net-acct

Usermode IP accounting daemon This package logs network traffic. It provides a daemon (nacctd) that logs all traffic passing the machine it runs on (similar to what tcpdump does). Capability is provided to associate traffic to slip/ppp users in case you run a slip/ppp server. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

net-snmp

SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a protocol used fornetwork management. The NET-SNMP project includes various SNMP tools: an extensible agent, an SNMP library, tools for requesting or setting information from SNMP agents, tools for generating and handling SNMP traps, a version of the netstat command which uses SNMP, and a Tk/Perlmib browser. This package contains the snmpd and snmp trapd daemons,documentation, etc. You will probably also want to install the net-snmp-utils package, which contains NET-SNMP utilities. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

net-snmp-utils

The net-snmp-utils package contains various utilities for use with the NET-SNMP network management project. Install this package if you need utilities for managing your network using the SNMP protocol. You will also need to install the net-snmp package. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

net-tools

The NET-3 networking toolkit This package includes the important tools for controlling the network subsystem of the Linux kernel. This includes arp, ifconfig, netstat, rarp, nameif and route. Additionally, this package contains utilities relating to particular network hardware types (plipconfig, slattach) and advanced aspects of IP configuration (iptunnel, ipmaddr). In the upstream package 'hostname' and friends are included. Those are not installed by this package, since there is a special "hostname*.deb". From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netatalk

AppleTalk user binaries Netatalk is an implementation of the AppleTalk Protocol Suite for BSD-derived systems. The current release contains support for EtherTalk Phase I and II, DDP, RTMP, NBP, ZIP, AEP, ATP, PAP, ASP, and AFP. This package contains all daemon and utility programs as well as Netatalk's static libraries. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netbase

Basic TCP/IP networking system This package provides the necessary infrastructure for basic TCP/IP based networking. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Netbeui

NetBios Enhanced User Interface: an enhanced version of the NetBIOS protocol used by network operating systems such as LAN Manager, LAN Server, Windows 9x and 2000. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NETBEUI

NETBIOS Extended User Interface (UI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NetBIOS

In Windows, NetBIOS is a way for writing network-aware applications, much like sockets is for UNIX. Misunderstanding: Like sockets, many different protocols can be used to transport applications written to the NetBIOS API. When you say "NetBIOS", some people will understand you to mean the TCP/IP transport. Other people will think of "NetBEUI", which is the transport over raw Ethernet without any intervening routable network protocol. Use the term "NBT" (NetBIOS-over-TCP) or "NetBEUI" to avoid confusion. Contrast: Microsoft's "File and Print Sharing" uses the SMB protocol over NetBIOS. Microsoft supports the NetBIOS interface over TCP/IP, NetBEUI, and Novell's IPX/SPX. Home users who share files among their own machines mistakenly enable File and Print Sharing using the TCP/IP transport, allowing hackers anywhere on the Internet access to their machine. Instead, they should configure it over the NetBEUI transport so that nobody outside their network can access their files (note: this still might open up their networks to people on the same cable-modem VLAN). History: Originally developed by SyTek for IBM. It was implemented in the ROM of IBM'ss broadband Ethernet (3-mbps, over cable TV coax rather than normal Ethernet coax, separate send/receive channels). More: If you maintain a firewall, you will see regular NetBIOS requests in your logs. Read the document http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs/firewall-seen.html#netbios for more info. From Hacking-Lexicon http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NETBIOS

NETwork Basic Input Output System (IBM, RFC 1001/1002), "NetBIOS" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NETBLT

NETwork BLock Transfer (IP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netboot

Booting of a diskless computer This package allows booting of a diskless computer over a network and mounting the root filesystem via NFS. It contains the necessary boot ROM code and utility program to convert a Linux kernel or MS-DOS disk into a net bootable image. For more information: http://www.han.de/~gero/netboot/index.html From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NETBT

NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NETBIOS, TCP/IP), "NetBT" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netcat

A popular tool for command-line manipulation of ports, especially text-based protocols. Often used as a replacement for Telnet. Key Point: Variants of netcat are a popular way of redirecting shell prompts and other protocols. In the past, this was always done in the clear. Today, there are variants such as aes-netcat or crytcat.exe that will encrypt the channel. From Hacking-Lexicon http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netcat

TCP/IP swiss army knife A simple Unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections using TCP or UDP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable "back-end" tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NETCDF

NETwork Common Data Format, "NetCDF" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netcdfg3

An interface for scientific data access. NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is an interface for scientific data access and a freely-distributed software library that provides an implementation of the interface. The netCDF library also defines a machine-independent format for representing scientific data. Together, the interface, library, and format support the creation, access, and sharing of scientific data. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netconfig

A text-based tool for simple configuration of ethernet devices. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NETDA

NETwork Design and Analysis From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netdiag

Net-Diagnostics (trafshow,strobe,netwatch,statnet,tcpspray,tcpblast) Netdiag contains a collection of small tools to analyze network traffic and configuration of remote hosts (strobe). It is of invaluable help if your system is showing strange network behaviour and you want to find out what your network is doing. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netdude

NETwork DUmp data Displayer and Editor for tcpdump trace files It is a GUI-based tool that allows you to make detailed changes to packets in tcpdump trace files, in particular, it can currently do the following: * Set the value of every field in IP, TCP and UDP packet headers. ICMP support will be finished shortly. * Copy, move and delete packets in the trace file. * Fragment and reassemble IP packets. * Netdude constantly communicates with a tcpdump process to update the familiar tcpdump output that corresponds to the trace. This also means that any changes made to your local version of tcpdump are reflected in Netdude. * Plugin architecture: people can easily add plugins for specific tasks. The code comes with a plugin for checksum correction in IP, TCP and UDP, and a dummy plugin. * Through the plugin mechanism, Netdude provides a good facility for writing tcpdump trace file filters. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netenv

Configure your system for different network environments. Netenv creates a file containing variable assignments which reflect the current environment. It is especially useful for notebook computers, since it is used (if configured) by the PCMCIA setup scheme included in the Debian pcmcia-cs package and the plip setup script included as an example in this package. You can also use netenv configure your windowmanager or your printing environment. Note that you either have to specify a kernel parameter or enter the chosen environment by hand during boot time. The boot process will stop until you entered something. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nethack

Overhead dungeon-crawler game (dummy package) Nethack is a wonderfully silly, yet quite addicting, Dungeons and Dragons-style adventure game. You play the part of a fierce fighter, wizard, or any of many other classes, fighting your way down to retrieve the Amulet of Yendor (try saying THAT one backwards!) for your god. On the way, you might encounter a quantum mechanic or two, or perhaps a microscopic space fleet, or -- if you're REALLY lucky -- the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. This package is merely a dummy package that depends on nethack-common and nethack-x11 to facilitate upgrades. You may safely remove it from your system. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Netiquette

The etiquette of using the Internet. To avoid breaching Netiquette, make sure that you investigate any FAQs or new user sections of newsgroups and do not send irrelevent e-mail. From Glossary of Distance Education and Internet Terminology http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netkit-ftp

Internet file transfer program From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netkit-inetd

The Internet Superserver The inetd server is a network daemon program that specializes in managing incoming network connections. It's configuration file tells it what program needs to be run when an incoming connection is received. Any service port may be configured for either of the tcp or udp protcols. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netkit-ntalk

talk to another user From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netkit-ping

The ping utility from netkit The ping command sends ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to a host in order to test if the host is reachable via the network. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netleds-applet

GNOME network LEDs applet NetLeds is a GNOME applet that displays LEDs from a network device. It can display RX, TX, collision and error. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netmask

A 32-bit value, similar to a IP address, that determines how a an IP address is separated into subnet address and host address. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netmask

helps figure out network masks This is a tiny program handy if you work with firewalls or routers or are a network admin of sorts. It can determine the smallest set of network masks to specify a range of hosts. It can also convert between common IP netmask and address formats. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netmaze

3-D Multiplayer Combat Game This is a 3-D multiplayer game for X. You can play by yourself, use computerized players ("bots"), or you can use a TCP/IP network and play against other players. Be sure to read the documentation that will be installed in /usr/share/doc/netmaze/README.Debian From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netobjd

the Network Object agent daemon The Network Objects package provides a simple but powerful facility for remote method invocation in the context of Modula-3. Under Network Objects, all subtypes of the object type NetObj.T are treated specially in that they can be passed to remote address spaces by reference. This remote reference appears at the destination as a surrogate object which is a subtype of the original object type. If the original type has methods, these methods can be remotely invoked through the surrogate. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NETPARS

NETwork Performing Analysis Reporting System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netpbm

Graphics conversion tools. Netpbm is a toolkit for manipulation of graphic images, including conversion of images between a variety of different formats. There are over 220 separate tools in the package including converters for more than 80 graphics formats. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netpbm

The netpbm package contains a library of functions that support programs for handling various graphics file formats, including .pbm (portable bitmaps), .pgm (portable graymaps), .pnm (portable anymaps),.ppm (portable pixmaps), and others. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netpipe-lam

A network performance tool using LAM MPI NetPIPE is a protocol independent performance tool that encapsulates the best of ttcp and netperf and visually represents the network performance under a variety of conditions. By taking the end-to-end application view of a network, NetPIPE clearly shows the overhead associated with different protocol layers. NetPIPE answers such questions as: how soon will a given data block of size k arrive at its destination? Which network and protocol will transmit size k blocks the fastest? What is a given network's effective maximum throughput and saturation level? Does there exist a block size k for which the throughput is maximized? How much communication overhead is due to the network communication protocol layer(s)? How quickly will a small (< 1 kbyte) control message arrive, and which network and protocol are best for this purpose? This package measures network performance using the MPI protocol, a Message Passing Interface frequently used in parallel processing, and which uses in turn TCP as its underlying transport. The implementation of the MPI standard used by this package is that provided by the lam set of packages. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netpipe-mpich

A network performance tool using MPICH MPI NetPIPE is a protocol independent performance tool that encapsulates the best of ttcp and netperf and visually represents the network performance under a variety of conditions. By taking the end-to-end application view of a network, NetPIPE clearly shows the overhead associated with different protocol layers. NetPIPE answers such questions as: how soon will a given data block of size k arrive at its destination? Which network and protocol will transmit size k blocks the fastest? What is a given network's effective maximum throughput and saturation level? Does there exist a block size k for which the throughput is maximized? How much communication overhead is due to the network communication protocol layer(s)? How quickly will a small (< 1 kbyte) control message arrive, and which network and protocol are best for this purpose? This package measures network performance using the MPI protocol, a Message Passing Interface frequently used in parallel processing, and which uses in turn TCP as its underlying transport. The implementation of the MPI standard used by this package is that provided by the mpich package. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netpipe-pvm

A network performance tool using PVM NetPIPE is a protocol independent performance tool that encapsulates the best of ttcp and netperf and visually represents the network performance under a variety of conditions. By taking the end-to-end application view of a network, NetPIPE clearly shows the overhead associated with different protocol layers. NetPIPE answers such questions as: how soon will a given data block of size k arrive at its destination? Which network and protocol will transmit size k blocks the fastest? What is a given network's effective maximum throughput and saturation level? Does there exist a block size k for which the throughput is maximized? How much communication overhead is due to the network communication protocol layer(s)? How quickly will a small (< 1 kbyte) control message arrive, and which network and protocol are best for this purpose? This package measures network performance using the PVM protocol, a Parallel Virtual Machine interface frequently used in parallel processing, and which uses in turn TCP as its underlying transport. PVM support is provided in its own separate pvm package on Debian systems. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netpipe-tcp

A network performance tool using the TCP protocol NetPIPE is a protocol independent performance tool that encapsulates the best of ttcp and netperf and visually represents the network performance under a variety of conditions. By taking the end-to-end application view of a network, NetPIPE clearly shows the overhead associated with different protocol layers. NetPIPE answers such questions as: how soon will a given data block of size k arrive at its destination? Which network and protocol will transmit size k blocks the fastest? What is a given network's effective maximum throughput and saturation level? Does there exist a block size k for which the throughput is maximized? How much communication overhead is due to the network communication protocol layer(s)? How quickly will a small (< 1 kbyte) control message arrive, and which network and protocol are best for this purpose? This package uses a raw TCP protocol to measure network performance. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netplan

Network server for `plan' Plan is a schedule planner based on X/Motif. Netplan adds to plan multiuser capability using an IP server. WARNING: the best level of authentication offered by netplan in this version is identd. That's quite weak, so watch the manpage and tune the config carefully. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netris

A free, networked version of T*tris Netris is a free, networked variant of Tetris. One-player mode is a tad boring at the moment, because it never gets any faster, and there's no scoring. This will be rectified at some point. Two players can play against each other. If you fill two or three lines with one piece, your opponent gets respectively one or two unfilled lines at the bottom of his screen. If you fill four lines with one piece, your opponent will get four unfilled lines. This version at least partially supports robots. You can find the protocol description in the documentation, and a sample robot in the examples. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netsaint

A host/service/network monitoring and management system. NetSaint is a host/service/network monitoring and management system. It has the following features: o Monitoring of network services (via TCP port, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.) o Plugin interface to allow for user-developed service checks o Contact notifications when problems occur and get resolved (via email, pager, or user-defined method) o Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events (for proactive problem resolution) o Web output (current status, notifications, problem history, log file, etc.) NetSaint was written in C and is designed to be easy to understand and modify to fit your own needs. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Netscape

A WWW Browser and the name of a company. The Netscape (tm) browser was originally based on the Mosaic program developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). From Matisse http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netscape

Popular World-Wide-Web browser software (base support) Netscape (pronounced "Mozilla") is a graphical World-Wide-Web browser with many features. It supports advanced features of HTML and new technologies such as "Java" from Sun Microsystems. You will need the "ImageMagick" package installed if you wish to get in-line support of image types not directly supported by netscape. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Netscape(tm)

A commercial GUI World-Wide-Web browser for X-Windows, MS-Windows and Macintosh, available from Netscape Communications. From KADOWKEV http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netsed

The network packet altering stream editor NetSED is small and handful utility designed to alter the contents of packets forwarded thru your network in real time. It is really useful for network hackers in following applications: * black-box protocol auditing - whenever there are two or more proprietary boxes communicating over undocumented protocol (by enforcing changes in ongoing transmissions, you will be able to test if tested application is secure), * fuzz-alike experiments, integrity tests - whenever you want to test stability of the application and see how it ensures data integrity, * other common applications - fooling other people, content filtering, etc etc - choose whatever you want to. It perfectly fits ngrep, netcat and tcpdump tools suite. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netselect

Choose the fastest server automatically. This is netselect, an ultrafast intelligent parallelizing binary-search implementation of "ping." You give it a (possibly very long) list of servers, and it chooses the fastest/closest one automatically. It's good for finding the fastest ftp.debian.org mirror, the least laggy IRC server, or the best Squid neighbour. This version also includes netselect-apt, which creates an apt sources.list file automatically from the huge list of Debian mirrors. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Netserva Dlite

Netserva Dlite is a small 20mb downloadable Debian based distribution that comes with a basic set of pre-configured ISP-related services such as virtual web hosting, email and RADIUS. All client authentication is via MySQL so normal user shell accounts are not required. The system, in theory, could scale to supporting millions of users. The latest update was on February 2, 2002. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netspades-slang

Slang console based client for the NetSpades spades game. This is a console/slang based client for Netspades, you will require a client To be able to play netspades. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NETSS

National Electronic Telecommunication Surveillance System (USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

netstat

Print network connections, routing tables, interface statistics, masquerade connections, and multicast memberships From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Netstation Linux

NetStation is a Linux distribution for diskless thin client terminals using standard x86 hardware. It can boot from network using Etherboot and connect to an application server using VNC, RDP, X11 or SSH. The initial release, NetStation 0.1 (alpha), is dated August 28, 2001. Development version 0.8.2 was released June 6, 2002. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nettoe

Networked version of Tic Tac Toe for the console NetToe is a console-based version of the classic game "Tic Tac Toe". It's playable against computer AI, a player on the same machine or with another player over the network. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Netule

Netule has created three new Linux distributions, which are now available for download. The EM-I or Email Module I is a full featured Email Server based on Sendmail; the WM-I or Web Module I is a vastly simplified Web Server based on Apache; and the FM-I or Firewall Module I is released in partnership with Astaro Security Linux. Netule products are a combination of open and closed source and are available bundled with hardware. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Network

A group of computers that are connected in some fashion. Most school networks are known as LANs, or Local Area Networks, because they are networks linking computers in one small area. The Internet could be referred to as a WAN, or a Wide Area Network, because it connects computers in more than one local area. It is also a series of points connected by physical or virtual connects. From Glossary of Distance Education and Internet Terminology http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

network

A group of interconnected computers and their connecting cables and hardware. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Network

Any time you connect 2 or more computers together so that they can share resources, you have a computer network. Connect 2 or more networks together and you have an internet. From Matisse http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

network address translation (NAT)

Networking method in which internal network hosts, which use private IP addresses access public (Internet) hosts through a gateway that tags packets for routing. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

network card

See network interface card (NIC). From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

network file system (NFS)

A protocol used to access files over a network regardless of machine, operating system, or architecture. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

network information service (NIS)

Client-server protocol that tracks, manages, and authenticates users and host names on a network. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

network interface card

An adapter that lets you connect a network cable to a microcomputer. The card includes encoding and decoding circuitry and a receptacle for a network cable connection. Because data is transmitted more rapidly within the computer's internal bus, a network interface card allows the network to operate at higher speeds than it would if delayed by the serial port. Networks such as Ethernet and ARCnet that use interface cards can transmit information much faster than networks such as AppleTalk which uses serial ports. From QUECID http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

network interface card (NIC)

A hardware component that initiates and manages network connections. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

network operations centre (NOC)

An administrative and technical coordination office that is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a local, regional, or national Internet backbone see service. From QUECID http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

network protocol

The method used to regulate a workstation's access to a computer network to prevent data collision. Examples include carrier sense multiple access with collision detection (CSMA/CD) and token passing. From QUECID http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

new-object

Add new CORBA object From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

newaliases

update /etc/aliases database From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

newbie

/n[y]oo'bee/ n. [very common; orig. from British public-school and military slang variant of `new boy'] A Usenet neophyte. This term surfaced in the newsgroup talk.bizarre but is now in wide use (the combination "clueless newbie" is especially common). Criteria for being considered a newbie vary wildly; a person can be called a newbie in one newsgroup while remaining a respected regular in another. The label `newbie' is sometimes applied as a serious insult to a person who has been around Usenet for a long time but who carefully hides all evidence of having a clue. See B1FF; see also gnubie. From Jargon Dictionary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

newbiedoc

Documentation by and for newbies This is a snapshot of the documentation currently being developed by The Newbiedoc Project. See http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net for the most recent version, or if you want to join the team. Current release includes: - Introduction to 'apt-get' - DocBook guides and documentation for writing doc for Newbiedoc - Using 'grep' - Installing and configuring hardware - Finding help on a Debian system - Text editors: JOE and vi - Compiling kernels the Debian way - Managing processes - Using runlevels - Configuring exim The documentation will be installed in /usr/share/doc/newbiedoc, and newbiedoc(1) is a script that starts a browser on the newbiedoc collection. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

newer

compare file modification times From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

newgrp

Change group ID From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

newline

/n[y]oo'li:n/ n. 1. [techspeak, primarily Unix] The ASCII LF character (0001010), used under Unix as a text line terminator. Though the term `newline' appears in ASCII standards, it never caught on in the general computing world before Unix. 2. More generally, any magic character, character sequence, or operation (like Pascal's writeln procedure) required to terminate a text record or separate lines. See crlf, terpri. From Jargon Dictionary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NEWS

Netware Early Warning System (Novell, Netware) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NEWS

Networked Extensible Windowing System (Sun), "NeWS" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NEWS file

Contains information about new features and changes for the layman about this package. From Rute-Users-Guide http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

newsclipper

Create HTML with dynamic information from the net NewsClipper is an information integrator. It creates a custom web page from a template HTML file with special tags, replacing those tags with dynamic information acquired from the internet. It was previously known as DailyUpdate. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

newsflash

Get news with the newnews command from a server The Newsflash program retrieves news articles via NNTP from one server and delivers them to another. It requires at least read-only permissions on the remote server, and needs to have peer permissions on the local server. It works well with INN, but should also work with any other RFC977 compliant news software. Newsflash's highly parallel design is optimized for throughput, which makes quite a difference to INN's nntpget and the like. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Newsgroups

A newsgroup is a notice board that everyone in the world can see. There are tens of thousands of newsgroups and each group is unique in the world. The client software you use to read a newsgroup is called a news reader (or news client). rtin is a popular text mode reader, while netscape is graphical. pan is an excellent graphical news reader that I use. Newsgroups are named like Internet hosts. One you might be interested in is comp.os.linux.announce. The comp is the broadest subject description for computers; os stands for operating systems; and so on. Many other linux newsgroups are devoted to various LINUX issues. Newsgroups servers are big hungry beasts. They form a tree-like structure on the Internet. When you send mail to a newsgroup it takes about a day or so for the mail you sent to propagate to every other server in the world. Likewise, you can see a list of all the messages posted to each newsgroup by anyone anywhere. What's the difference between a newsgroup and a mailing list? The advantage of a newsgroup is that you don't have to download the messages you are not interested in. If you are on a mailing list, you get all the mail sent to the list. With a newsgroup you can look at the message list and retrieve only the messages you are interested in. Why not just put the mailing list on a web page? If you did, then everyone in the world would have to go over international links to get to the web page. It would load the server in proportion to the number of subscribers. This is exactly what SlashDot is. However, your newsgroup server is local, so you retrieve mail over a faster link and save Internet traffic. From Rute-Users-Guide http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

Newsgroups

These are the bulletin boards of the Internet. There are around 20,000 groups covering every subject under the sun. Most IAPs have a newsgroup server which periodically takes all new messages from a newsgroup feed and adds the messages which have been posted by its own users. To access the newsgroups stored on your IAPs newsgroup server you need a newsreader program. From Glossary of Distance Education and Internet Terminology http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

newspost

Usenet binary autoposter Using newspost, it is a one command job to uuencode and post as many binary files as you like to your favorite newsgroup. It supports all the features you'd expect from a binary autoposter, including authentication, posting to multiple newsgroups (crossposting), and all the rest. And of course you can save your settings as default so you don't have to type in your news server every time. In addition, I added a couple cool things, like posting text prefixes, and autocreating and posting sfv files. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

newsreader

A program for reading, downloading, and replying to the newsgroup messages you want. See also USENET. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

newsx

An NNTP client for posting and fetching news NewsX is an NNTP client for Unix. It will connect to a remote NNTP server and post outgoing articles batched by the news system, as well as fetch incoming articles. It provides the NNTP capabilities required for small local news spools on installations with NNTP access only through limited ISP accounts. It works well via a dialup SLIP/PPP connection. It seems to be faster than using suck over a modem link. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NEWT

NeWS Terminal, "NeWT" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

newt

Newt is a programming library for color text mode, widget-based user interfaces. Newt can be used to add stacked windows, entry widgets, checkboxes, radio buttons, labels, plain text fields, scrollbars, etc., to text mode user interfaces. This package also contains the shared library needed by programs built with newt, as well as a/usr/bin/dialog replacement called whiptail. Newt is based on the slang library. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

newusers

update and create new users in batch From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nex

text editors From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NEXT

NEw eXtended Technology, "NeXT" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NFA

Name Field Address (Forth) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NFA

Non-determistic Finite-state Automation From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NFAIS

National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NFAS

Non Facilities-Associated Signaling (ISDN, PRI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NFR

Near Field Recording [technology] From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NFS

Network Facilities Services From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NFS

Network File System (Sun, Unix, RFC 1813) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NFS

NFS is the UNIX equivalent of SMB. It is a way through which different machines can import and export local files between each other. Like SMB though, NFS sends information including user passwords unencrypted, so it's best to limit its usage to within your local network. The Network File System (NFS) was developed to allow machines to mount a disk partition on a remote machine as if it were on a local hard drive. This allows for fast, seamless sharing of files across a network. It also gives the potential for unwanted people to access your hard drive over the network (and thereby possibly read your email and delete all your files as well as break into your system) if you set it up incorrectly. So please read the Security section of this document carefully if you intend to implement an NFS setup. There are other systems that provide similar functionality to NFS. Samba (http://www.samba.org) provides file services to Windows clients. The Andrew File System from IBM (http://www.transarc.com/Product/EFS/AFS/index.html), recently open-sourced, provides a file sharing mechanism with some additional security and performance features. The Coda File System (http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/) is still in development as of this writing but is designed to work well with disconnected clients. Many of the features of the Andrew and Coda file systems are slated for inclusion in the next version of NFS (Version 4) (http://www.nfsv4.org). The advantage of NFS today is that it is mature, standard, well understood, and supported robustly across a variety of platforms. From NFS-HOWTO http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

NFS

see network file system (NFS). From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nfs-common

NFS support files common to client and server Use this package on any machine that does NFS either as client or server. Programs included: lockd, statd, showmount, and nfsstat. Upstream: SourceForge project "nfs", CVS module nfs-utils. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nfs-kernel-server

Kernel NFS server support Use this package if you have a fairly recent kernel (2.2.13 or better) and you want to use the kernel-mode NFS server. The user-mode NFS server in the "nfs-server" package is slower but more featureful and easier to debug than the kernel-mode server. Upstream: SourceForge project "nfs", CVS module nfs-utils. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nfs-user-server

User space NFS server. This package contains all necessary programs to make your Linux machine act as an NFS server, being an NFS daemon (rpc.nfsd), a mount daemon (rpc.mountd). Unlike other NFS daemons, this NFS server runs entirely in user space. This makes it a tad slower than other NFS implementations, and also introduces some awkwardnesses in the semantics (for instance, moving a file to a different directory will render its file handle invalid). From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nfs-utils

The nfs-utils package provides a daemon for the kernel NFS server and related tools, which provides a much higher level of performance than the traditional Linux NFS server used by most users.This package also contains the showmount program. Showmount queries the mount daemon on a remote host for information about the NFS (Network File System) server on the remote host. For example, showmount can display the clients which are mounted on that host. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nfs-utils-clients

The nfs-utils package provides a daemon for the kernel NFS server andrelated tools, which provides a much higher level of performance than thetraditional Linux NFS server used by most users.This package also contains the showmount program. Showmount queries themount daemon on a remote host for information about the NFS (Network FileSystem) server on the remote host. For example, showmount can display theclients which are mounted on that host. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nfsboot

Allow clients to boot over the network. This package help you to set up your host to allow clients to boot over nfs. This package should be installed on the server so that the clients can connect to it. The package contains no server itself, but recommends all packages that you will need in order to make nfsrooted clients to work. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

nfsbooted

Prepares your image for nfs boot. This package sets up your debian image to be booted from a nfs server. There are a couple of things that are needed to do this so that the different hosts do not conflict with each other. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.ht