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#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2019-02-27

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### Acronyms

669

  UNIS/Composer 669 Module

ABI

  Application Binary Interface

ADSL

  Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

AFS

  Andrew File System

AIFF

  Audio Interchange File Format

ALSA

  Advanced Linux Sound Architecture

ANSI

  American National Standards Institute

API

  Application Programming Interface

APR

  Apache Portable Runtime

ARP

  Address Resolution Protocol

ASCII

  American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASN

  Abstract Syntax Notation

ASF

  Advanced Streaming Format

ATA

  Advanced Technology Attachment

ATSC

  Advanced Television Systems Committee

ATK

  Accessibility ToolKit

AVI

  Audio Video Interleave

AWT

  Abstract Window Toolkit

BER

  Basic Encoding Rules

BIND

  Berkeley Internet Name Domain

BIOS

  Basic Input/Output System

BLFS

  Beyond Linux From Scratch

BMP

  Bit MaP

CD

  Compact Disk

CDDA

  Compact Disc Digital Audio

CIFS

  Common Internet File System

  See Also SMB .

CMS

  Cryptographic Message Syntax

CODEC

  COmpression/DECompression module

CORBA

  Common Object Request Broker Architecture

CPU

  Central Processing Unit

CRD

  Color Rendering Dictionary

CSA

  Color Space Array

CSS (on DVD)

  Contents Scrambling System

CSS

  Cascading Style Sheets

CUPS

  Common Unix Printing System

CVS

  Concurrent Versions System

DAO

  Disc At Once

DARPA

  Directory Address Resolution Protocol Allocation

DEC

  Digital Equipment Corporation

DER

  Distinguished Encoding Rules

DES

  Data Encryption Standard

DHCP

  Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DICT

  Dictionary Server Protocol (RFC 2229)

DIN

  German Industrial Norm

DNS

  Domain Name Service

DOS

  Disk Operating System

DRI

  Direct Rendering Infrastructure

DSC

  Document Structuring Conventions

DSO

  Dynamic Shared Objects

DSSSL

  Document Style Semantics and Specification Language

DV

  Digital Video

DVD

  Digital Versatile Disk (also Digital Video Disk)

DVI

  DeVice Independent

ELF

  Executable and Linking Format

EPP

  Enhanced Parallel Port

EPS

  Encapsulated PostScript

ESD

  Enlighten Sound Daemon

ESMTP

  Extended Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

FAM

  File Alteration Monitor

FAME

  Fast Assembly Mpeg Encoder

FAQ

  Frequently Asked Questions

FAX

  Facsimile

FB

  Frame Buffer

FHS

  File Hierarchy Standard

FLAC

  Free Lossless Audio CODEC

FO

  Formatted Objects

FTP

  File Transfer Protocol

GCC

  GNU Compiler Collection

GDBM

  GNU DataBase Manager

GDK

  GTK+ Drawing Kit

GDM

  GNOME Display Manager

GID

  Group IDentity

GIF

  Graphics Interchange Format

GLUT

  OpenGL Utility Toolkit

GMP

  GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic

GNAT

  GNU NYU Ada 9x Translator

GNOME

  GNU Network Object Model Environment

GNU

  GNU's Not Unix

GPL

  General Public License

GPM

  General Purpose Mouse

GSS

  Generic Security Service

GSSAPI

  Generic Security Service Application Programming Interface

GTK

  GIMP ToolKit

GUI

  Graphical User Interface

HFS

  Hierarchical File System

HTML

  HyperText Markup Language

HTTP

  HyperText Transfer Protocol

HTTPS

  HyperText Transfer Protocol Secured

HUP

  Hang UP

IANA

  Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

ICC

  International Color Consortium

ICMP

  Internet Control Message Protocol

IDE

  Integrated Drive Electronics

  Integrated Development Environment

IDL

  Interface Definition Language

IJS

  Ink Jet Systems

ILS

  Internet Location Server

IMAP

  Internet Message Access Protocol

IMON

  Inode MONitor

IP

  Internet Protocol

  See Also TCP .

IPX

  Internetwork Packet eXchange

IRC

  Internet Relay Chat

ISDN

  Integrated Services Digital Network

ISO

  International Standards Organisation

ISP

  Internet Service Provider

IT

  ImpulseTracker Module

JAI

  Java Advanced Imaging

JAR

  Java ARchive

JDK

  Java Development Kit

JFIF

  JPEG File Interchange Format

JPEG

  Joint Photographic Experts Group

KDC

  Key Distribution Center

KDE

  KDesktop Environment

LAME

  Lame Ain't an MP3 Encoder

LAN

  Local Area Network

LDAP

  Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LDIF

  Lightweight Data Interchange Format

LFS

  Linux From Scratch

LGPL

  Library General Public License

LPR

  Line PRinter

LZO

  Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer

LZW

  Lempel-Ziv-Welch

MAC

  Media Access Control

MCOP

  Multimedia COmmunication Protocol

MCU

  Multipoint Control Unit

MD

  Message-Digest

MDA

  Mail Delivery Agent

MED

  MED/OctaMED Module

MIDI

  Musical Instrument Digital Interface

MIF

  Maker Interchange Format

MII

  Media Independent Interface

MIME

  Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

MIT

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MNG

  Multiple-image Network Graphics

MOD

  ProTracker Module

MP3

  MPEG-1 audio layer 3

MPEG

  Moving Picture Experts Group

MSL

  Magick Scripting Language

MTA

  Mail Transport Agent

MTM

  MultiTracker Module

MUA

  Mail User Agent

NASM

  Netwide ASseMbler

NNTP

  Network News Transfer Protocol

NFS

  Network File System

NIS

  Network Information Service

NPTL

  Native Posix Thread Library

NSPR

  Netscape Portable Runtime

NSS

  Network Security Services

NTP

  Network Time Protocol

OAF

  Object Activation Framework

ODBC

  Open DataBase Connectivity

OMF

  Open Metadata Framework

ORB

  Object Request Broker

  See Also CORBA .

ORDBMS

  Object Relational Database Management System

OS

  Operating System

OSF

  Open Software Foundation

OSS

  Open Sound System

PAM

  Pluggable authentication Modules

PBM

  Portable BitMap

PCI

  Peripheral Component Interconnect

PCL

  Printer Control Language

PCM

  Pulse Code Modulation

PDC

  Primary Domain Controller

PDF

  Portable Document Format

PEAR

  PHP Extension and Application Repository

PGM

  Portable Grey Map

PGP

  Pretty Good Privacy

PHP

  PHP Hypertext Preprocessor

PIM

  Personal Information Manager

PLIP

  Parallel Line Internet Protocol

PNG

  Portable Network Graphics

PO

  Portable Object

POD

  Plain Old Documentation

POP

  Post Office Protocol

PPD

  PostScript Printer Description

PPM

  Portable Pixel Map

PPP

  Point to Point Protocol

PPPoE

  Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet

PS

  PostScript

RADIUS

  Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service

RAM

  Random Access Memory

RARP

  Reverse Address Resolution Protocol

RCS

  Revision Control System

RFC

  Request For Comments

RGB

  Red Green Blue

RGBA

  Red Green Blue Alpha

ROM

  Read-Only Memory

RP

  Roaring Penguin

RPC

  Remote Procedure Call

RTC

  Real Time Clock

RTP

  Real Time Protocol

RW

  Read Write

S3M

  ScreamTracker Version 3 Module

S/MIME

  Secure/MIME

SANE

  Scanner Access Now Easy

SASL

  Simple Authentication and Security Layer

SATA

  Serial Advanced Technology Attachment

SBU

  Standard Build Unit

SCSI

  Small Computer System Interface

SDK

  Software Development Kit

SGML

  Standard Generalized Markup Language

SMART

  Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology

SMB

  Server Message Block

SMIL

  Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language

SMTP

  Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SQL

  Structured Query Language

SSH

  Secure SHell

SSL

  Secure Sockets Layer

SUID

  Set User IDentity

SVG

  Scalable Vector Graphics

SVGA

  Super Video Graphics Array

TCL

  Tool Command Language

TCP

  Transmission Control Protocol

TGT

  Ticket-Granting Ticket

TIFF

  Tag(ged) Image File Format

TLS

  Transport Layer Security

TTF

  TrueType Font

TTS

  Text To Speech

UCS

  Universal Character Set

UDF

  Universal Disk Format

UID

  User IDentity

UDP

  User Datagram Protocol

UI

  User Interface

UML

  Unified Modelling Language

URL

  Uniform Resource Locator

USB

  Universal Serial Bus

USR

  Upstream Ready

UTF

  UCS Transformation Format

UUCP

  Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol

VCD

  Video Compact Disk

VESA

  Video Electronics Standards Association

VGA

  Video Graphics Array

VNC

  Virtual Network Computer

VOB

  Video OBject

VOIP

  Voice Over IP

W3C

  World Wide Web Consortium

WAV

  Waveform Audio

WWW

  World Wide Web

XDMCP

  XDisplay Manager Control Protocol

XM

  FastTracker Module

XML

  eXtensible Markup Language

XSL

  eXtensible Style Language

XSLT

  eXtensible Style Language Transformation

XSM

  X/Open System Management

XMMS

  XMultiMedia System

YP

  Yellow Pages

YUV

  Luminance-Bandwidth-Chrominance

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