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Glossary

ABI

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accesslog

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ACL

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ACLs

Work in Progress

adapter

Work in Progress

ADSys

Work in Progress

AES

Work in Progress

Alertmanager

Work in Progress

ALSA

Work in Progress

ALUA

Work in Progress

AMD

Work in Progress

Ansible

Work in Progress

Apache2

Work in Progress

AppArmor

Work in Progress

Apport

Work in Progress

APT

Work in Progress

armhf

Work in Progress

ARP

Work in Progress

ArrayBolt

Work in Progress

async

Work in Progress

Authenticator

Work in Progress

autocommit

Work in Progress

autodetect

Work in Progress

autoinstall

Work in Progress

autorid

Work in Progress

AWS

Work in Progress

AX

Work in Progress

backend

Work in Progress

Backports

Work in Progress

Backtrace

Work in Progress

BackupServer

Work in Progress

Bacula

Work in Progress

BDC

Work in Progress

bdev

Work in Progress

BindDN

Work in Progress

BMC

Work in Progress

bootable

Work in Progress

bootloader

Work in Progress

bootp

Work in Progress

bootstrap

Work in Progress

BSD

Work in Progress

btrfs

Work in Progress

bugfix

Work in Progress

Byobu

Work in Progress

CA

Work in Progress

CAC

Work in Progress

CARP

Work in Progress

CCID

Work in Progress

CDBs

Work in Progress

CentOS

Work in Progress

certmap

Work in Progress

certutil

Work in Progress

cfg

Work in Progress

cgi

Work in Progress

CGNAT

Work in Progress

cgroup

Work in Progress

CHACHA

Work in Progress

checksums

Work in Progress

checkzone

Work in Progress

chrony

Work in Progress

chroot

Work in Progress

CIDR

Work in Progress

CIFS

Work in Progress

cipherlist

Work in Progress

CipherString

Work in Progress

ciphersuites

Work in Progress

CIS

Work in Progress

CLARiiON

Work in Progress

cleartext

Work in Progress

CloudWatch

Work in Progress

ClusterLabs

Work in Progress

CLVM

Work in Progress

cLVMd

Work in Progress

cmd

Work in Progress

CMS

Work in Progress

CN

Work in Progress

codename

Work in Progress

colocation

Work in Progress

conffile

Work in Progress

config

Work in Progress

connectionless

Work in Progress

containerization

Work in Progress

corei

Work in Progress

coreutils

Work in Progress

corosync

Work in Progress

Corosync

Work in Progress

CPU

Work in Progress

CRL

Work in Progress

crmsh

Work in Progress

cron

Work in Progress

CronHowto

Work in Progress

crypto

Work in Progress

cryptographic

Work in Progress

CSR

Work in Progress

csync

Work in Progress

CTX

Work in Progress

CustomLog

Work in Progress

CVE

Work in Progress

CX

Work in Progress

DAC

Work in Progress

daemonize

Work in Progress

DARPA

Work in Progress

DASD

Work in Progress

datacentre

Work in Progress

Datagram

Work in Progress

dbgsym

Work in Progress

Work in Progress

DBs

Work in Progress

ddeb

Work in Progress

ddebs

Work in Progress

DDNS

Work in Progress

de

Work in Progress

debconf

Work in Progress

Debian

Work in Progress

debuginfo

Work in Progress

debuginfod

Work in Progress

decrypt

Work in Progress

deduplication

Work in Progress

denylist

Work in Progress

DER

Work in Progress

dev

Work in Progress

devel

Work in Progress

DevStack

Work in Progress

DGC

Work in Progress

DHCP

Work in Progress

dhcpd

Work in Progress

dir

Work in Progress

DirectoryIndex

Work in Progress

DIT

Work in Progress

DKMS

Work in Progress

DLM

Work in Progress

DM

Work in Progress

DMA

Work in Progress

DMAR

Work in Progress

dmesg

Work in Progress

dmsetup

Work in Progress

DN

Work in Progress

DNS

Work in Progress

dnsleaktest

Work in Progress

dnsmasq

Work in Progress

DNSSEC

Work in Progress

Docker

Work in Progress

DocumentRoot

Work in Progress

DPDK

Work in Progress

dpkg

Work in Progress

DRBD

Work in Progress

DTLS

Work in Progress

EAL

Work in Progress

EasyRSA

Work in Progress

ECKD

Work in Progress

ECR

Work in Progress

EF

Work in Progress

EFI

Work in Progress

Work in Progress

EMC

Work in Progress

Engenio

Work in Progress

ensite

Work in Progress

EOL

Work in Progress

ERD

Work in Progress

ErrorDocument

Work in Progress

ErrorLog

Work in Progress

ESM

Work in Progress

ESXi

Work in Progress

etckeeper

Work in Progress

ETW

Work in Progress

etwlogs

Work in Progress

ExecCGI

Work in Progress

executables

Work in Progress

eXecution

Work in Progress

Exim4

Work in Progress

exportfs

Work in Progress

failover

Work in Progress

fallbacks

Work in Progress

FastCGI

Work in Progress

FC

Work in Progress

FHS

Work in Progress

filebug

Work in Progress

FileSet

Work in Progress

filesystem

Work in Progress

FIPS

Work in Progress

firsttest

Work in Progress

Fluentd

Work in Progress

FQDN

Work in Progress

Freedesktop

Work in Progress

FreeIPA

Work in Progress

freenode

Work in Progress

frontend

Work in Progress

fsck

Work in Progress

fsync

Work in Progress

fulfill

Work in Progress

FULLTEXT

Work in Progress

FW

Work in Progress

GCE

Work in Progress

GCM

Work in Progress

GCP

Work in Progress

gcplogs

Work in Progress

gcrypt

Work in Progress

GDB

Work in Progress

gelf

Work in Progress

Gentoo

Work in Progress

GFS

Work in Progress

GFS2

Work in Progress

GiB

Work in Progress

GID

Work in Progress

gitolite

Work in Progress

GKE

Work in Progress

GL

Work in Progress

GNU

Work in Progress

GnuTLS

Work in Progress

GPG

Work in Progress

GPL

Work in Progress

GPS

Work in Progress

GPSD

Work in Progress

gpsd

Work in Progress

GPUs

Work in Progress

Graylog

Work in Progress

grubnetaa

Work in Progress

grubnetx

Work in Progress

GSSAPI

Work in Progress

GTK

Work in Progress

GUI

Work in Progress

GUIs

Work in Progress

GV

Work in Progress

GZIP

Work in Progress

HA

Work in Progress

HBAs

Work in Progress

HMAC

Work in Progress

HMC

Work in Progress

hostgroup

Work in Progress

hostname

Work in Progress

HOTP

Work in Progress

hotplug

Work in Progress

hpb

Work in Progress

HPC

Work in Progress

HSG

Work in Progress

HSV

Work in Progress

HTCP

Work in Progress

htm

Work in Progress

html

Work in Progress

http

Work in Progress

httpd

Work in Progress

https

Work in Progress

hugepage

Work in Progress

HWE

Work in Progress

ICAO

Work in Progress

ICMP

Work in Progress

ICP

Work in Progress

IDENT

Work in Progress

IDentifier

Work in Progress

idmap

Work in Progress

IMAP

Work in Progress

IncludesNOEXEC

Work in Progress

InetOrgPerson

Work in Progress

INI

Work in Progress

init

Work in Progress

initiatorname

Work in Progress

initrd

Work in Progress

InnoDB

Work in Progress

installserver

Work in Progress

integrations

Work in Progress

Interprocess

Work in Progress

io

Work in Progress

IOMMU

Work in Progress

IoT

Work in Progress

IP

Work in Progress

IPaddr

Work in Progress

IPC

Work in Progress

IPL

Work in Progress

IPMI

Work in Progress

ipmilan

Work in Progress

ipmitool

Work in Progress

IPP

Work in Progress

IPs

Work in Progress

IPSec

Work in Progress

iptables

Work in Progress

IPv

Work in Progress

IPvlan

Work in Progress

IPVS

Work in Progress

IQN

Work in Progress

irqbalance

Work in Progress

isc

Work in Progress

ISC’s

Work in Progress

iSCSI

Work in Progress

iscsid

Work in Progress

iSCSILogicalUnit

Work in Progress

iSCSITarget

Work in Progress

ISO

Work in Progress

ISP

Work in Progress

jitter

Work in Progress

journald

Work in Progress

JSON

Work in Progress

KDC

Work in Progress

kea

Work in Progress

keepalive

Work in Progress

Kerberos

Work in Progress

kex

Work in Progress

kexec

Work in Progress

keypair

Work in Progress

keyring

Work in Progress

keysalt

Work in Progress

keyservers

Work in Progress

keytab

Work in Progress

Keytool

Work in Progress

kraxel

Work in Progress

KVM

Work in Progress

LAN

Work in Progress

largemem

Work in Progress

LDAP

Work in Progress

ldapscripts

Work in Progress

LDAPv3

Work in Progress

LDIF

Work in Progress

lex

Work in Progress

lftp

Work in Progress

libvirt

Work in Progress

lifecycle

Work in Progress

lightervisor

Work in Progress

Lighttpd

Work in Progress

Livepatch

Work in Progress

livepatching

Work in Progress

LMA

Work in Progress

Loadbalancing

Work in Progress

LoadModule

Work in Progress

localhost

Work in Progress

LockFile

Work in Progress

Logentries

Work in Progress

Logfiles

Work in Progress

LogFormat

Work in Progress

LogLevel

Work in Progress

Logstash

Work in Progress

Logwatch

Work in Progress

lookaside

Work in Progress

lookup

Work in Progress

loopback

Work in Progress

LPAR

Work in Progress

LSI

Work in Progress

lspci

Work in Progress

LU

Work in Progress

LUA

Work in Progress

LUN

Work in Progress

LUs

Work in Progress

LV

Work in Progress

LVM

Work in Progress

lvmetad

Work in Progress

lvmlockd

Work in Progress

LXC

Work in Progress

LXD

Work in Progress

MAAS

Work in Progress

macvlan

Work in Progress

Maildir

Work in Progress

manpage

Work in Progress

maskable

Work in Progress

maxphysaddr

Work in Progress

mbox

Work in Progress

MCE

Work in Progress

MDA

Work in Progress

mdev

Work in Progress

metapackage

Work in Progress

METAR

Work in Progress

Metroclusters

Work in Progress

microk

Work in Progress

microservices

Work in Progress

MicroStack

Work in Progress

microVMs

Work in Progress

MOTD

Work in Progress

mountpoints

Work in Progress

MSA

Work in Progress

MTA

Work in Progress

MTR

Work in Progress

MTU

Work in Progress

MUA

Work in Progress

MUAs

Work in Progress

multicast

Work in Progress

Multipass

Work in Progress

Multipath

Work in Progress

Multiview

Work in Progress

Munin

Work in Progress

MySQL

Work in Progress

Nagios

Work in Progress

nameserver

Work in Progress

namespace

Work in Progress

NAS

Work in Progress

NAT

Work in Progress

NATed

Work in Progress

Navisys

Work in Progress

NetApp

Work in Progress

netbios

Work in Progress

Netboot

Work in Progress

Netfilter

Work in Progress

netlogon

Work in Progress

netmask

Work in Progress

Netplan

Work in Progress

networkd

Work in Progress

newsfeeds

Work in Progress

NFS

Work in Progress

NFSv

Work in Progress

NFV

Work in Progress

nginx

Work in Progress

NIC

Work in Progress

NIS

Work in Progress

NMI

Work in Progress

noanonymous

Work in Progress

nologin

Work in Progress

noplaintext

Work in Progress

notfound

Work in Progress

NRPE

Work in Progress

NSCQ

Work in Progress

NSS

Work in Progress

NTP

Work in Progress

NTS

Work in Progress

NUMA

Work in Progress

Numa

Work in Progress

Nvidia

Work in Progress

NVMe

Work in Progress

NVRAM

Work in Progress

NVSwitch

Work in Progress

OCF

Work in Progress

OCFS

Work in Progress

OCFS2

Work in Progress

OCI

Work in Progress

OCSP

Work in Progress

OpenLDAP

Work in Progress

opensc

Work in Progress

OpenSSH

Work in Progress

OpenSSL

Work in Progress

OpenStack

Work in Progress

OpenSUSE

Work in Progress

OpenVPN

Work in Progress

Open vSwitch

Work in Progress

OpenVZ

Work in Progress

OpenWRT

Work in Progress

OSA

Work in Progress

OSI

Work in Progress

ote

Work in Progress

OTP

Work in Progress

OverlayFS

Work in Progress

OVS

Work in Progress

pam

Work in Progress

parm

Work in Progress

parmfile

Work in Progress

passcodes

Work in Progress

passthrough

Work in Progress

PATHs

Work in Progress

pb

Work in Progress

PCI

Work in Progress

PCIe

Work in Progress

pcs

Work in Progress

PDC

Work in Progress

PEM

Work in Progress

Petitboot

Work in Progress

PgSQL

Work in Progress

php

Work in Progress

phpMyAdmin

Work in Progress

PID

Work in Progress

PidFile

Work in Progress

pingable

Work in Progress

PIV

Work in Progress

PKCS

Work in Progress

PKI

Work in Progress

PKINIT

Work in Progress

pluggable

Work in Progress

PMD

Work in Progress

POSIX

Work in Progress

Postcopy

Work in Progress

Postfix

Work in Progress

Postgres

Work in Progress

PostScript

Work in Progress

PowerShell

Work in Progress

PPA

Work in Progress

ppc

Work in Progress

PPD

Work in Progress

Preboot

Work in Progress

preseed

Work in Progress

PreSharedKey

Work in Progress

PrivateKey

Work in Progress

procfs

Work in Progress

proxied

Work in Progress

proxying

Work in Progress

PTP

Work in Progress

PTR

Work in Progress

pty

Work in Progress

PubkeyAuthentication

Work in Progress

PXE

Work in Progress

PXELINUX

Work in Progress

qa

Work in Progress

qdevice

Work in Progress

Qdevice

Work in Progress

QEMU

Work in Progress

qeth

Work in Progress

quickstart

Work in Progress

rangesize

Work in Progress

rclone

Work in Progress

RDAC

Work in Progress

RDBMS

Work in Progress

rdn

Work in Progress

RDN

Work in Progress

Redbook

Work in Progress

renderer

Work in Progress

REXX

Work in Progress

RFC

Work in Progress

rid

Work in Progress

RISC-V

Work in Progress

Rocks

Work in Progress

ROMs

Work in Progress

RootDN

Work in Progress

rootfs

Work in Progress

routable

Work in Progress

RSA

Work in Progress

rsnapshot

Work in Progress

rsync

Work in Progress

rsyslog

Work in Progress

RTC

Work in Progress

runtime

Work in Progress

SAN

Work in Progress

sandboxed

Work in Progress

SANLOCK

Work in Progress

SANs

Work in Progress

SANtricity

Work in Progress

SASL

Work in Progress

SBD

Work in Progress

sbin

Work in Progress

schemas

Work in Progress

SCP

Work in Progress

Scrollback

Work in Progress

SCSI

Work in Progress

SDN

Work in Progress

sdX

Work in Progress

seccomp

Work in Progress

SECLEVEL

Work in Progress

sendmail

Work in Progress

ServerAdmin

Work in Progress

ServerAlias

Work in Progress

ServerName

Work in Progress

SFTP

Work in Progress

sg

Work in Progress

SGI

Work in Progress

SHA

Work in Progress

shadowLastChange

Work in Progress

sharding

Work in Progress

ShareAlike

Work in Progress

SHell

Work in Progress

SHM

Work in Progress

Shorewall

Work in Progress

SIDs

Work in Progress

SIMD

Work in Progress

slapd

Work in Progress

slapo

Work in Progress

SLiRP

Work in Progress

smartcard

Work in Progress

SMB

Work in Progress

smbldap

Work in Progress

SMS

Work in Progress

SMTP

Work in Progress

SMTPS

Work in Progress

sn

Work in Progress

Snap

Work in Progress

snapd

Work in Progress

snapshot

Work in Progress

Snapstore

Work in Progress

SNMP

Work in Progress

SOA

Work in Progress

Solaris

Work in Progress

sos

Work in Progress

SPC

Work in Progress

Splunk

Work in Progress

SRU

Work in Progress

srv

Work in Progress

ss

Work in Progress

SSD

Work in Progress

SSH

Work in Progress

sshd

Work in Progress

sshkeygen

Work in Progress

SSI

Work in Progress

SSL

Work in Progress

SSLCertificateFile

Work in Progress

SSLCertificateKeyFile

Work in Progress

SSO

Work in Progress

sss

Work in Progress

SSSD

Work in Progress

StartTLS

Work in Progress

stateful

Work in Progress

STDIN

Work in Progress

STDOUT

Work in Progress

STK

Work in Progress

stonith

Work in Progress

storages

Work in Progress

su

Work in Progress

subcommand

Work in Progress

Subiquity

Work in Progress

subnet

Work in Progress

subnetwork

Work in Progress

substring

Work in Progress

subuid

Work in Progress

subvolume

Work in Progress

sudo

Work in Progress

superblock

Work in Progress

suxxif

Work in Progress

Work in Progress

SymLinksIfOwnerMatch

Work in Progress

syncprov

Work in Progress

syncrepl

Work in Progress

sysctls

Work in Progress

sysinfo

Work in Progress

syslog

Work in Progress

systemctl

Work in Progress

Systemd

Work in Progress

targetcli

Work in Progress

Tasksel

Work in Progress

TCP

Work in Progress

tdb

Work in Progress

Telegraf

Work in Progress

templated

Work in Progress

TFTP

Work in Progress

TGS

Work in Progress

TGT

Work in Progress

th

Work in Progress

thinpool

Work in Progress

timedatectl

Work in Progress

timesyncd

Work in Progress

TLB

Work in Progress

TLS

Work in Progress

TLSv

Work in Progress

tmpfs

Work in Progress

tmux

Work in Progress

topologies

Work in Progress

TOTP

Work in Progress

traceback

Work in Progress

Traceroute

Work in Progress

triagers

Work in Progress

ttys

Work in Progress

tunable

Work in Progress

TuneD

Work in Progress

Tunnelblick

Work in Progress

TXT

Work in Progress

UDA

Work in Progress

udev

Work in Progress

UDP

Work in Progress

UEFI

Work in Progress

ufw

Work in Progress

UID

Work in Progress

UIDs

Work in Progress

UI

Work in Progress

umounts

Work in Progress

unassign

Work in Progress

uncomment

Work in Progress

unencrypted

Work in Progress

unicast

Work in Progress

Unix98

Work in Progress

unmount

Work in Progress

untrusted

Work in Progress

upgraders

Work in Progress

uptime

Work in Progress

URI

Work in Progress

useradd

Work in Progress

userid

Work in Progress

userland

Work in Progress

usermode

Work in Progress

userPassword

Work in Progress

userspace

Work in Progress

USN

Work in Progress

usr

Work in Progress

utils

Work in Progress

UUIDs

Work in Progress

UVTool

Work in Progress

Valgrind

Work in Progress

vCPUs

Work in Progress

VCS

Work in Progress

veth

Work in Progress

VFIO

Work in Progress

VFS

Work in Progress

VFs

Work in Progress

VG

Work in Progress

vGPU

Work in Progress

virsh

Work in Progress

VirtIO

Work in Progress

virtiofs

Work in Progress

VirtualHost

Work in Progress

virtual

Work in Progress

virtualization

Work in Progress

VLAN

Work in Progress

VM

Work in Progress

VMware

Work in Progress

VNC

Work in Progress

VNX

Work in Progress

VPN

Work in Progress

VRRP

Work in Progress

vserver

Work in Progress

vsftpd

Work in Progress

WAL

Work in Progress

WAN

Work in Progress

wbinfo

Work in Progress

WCCP

Work in Progress

weatherutility

Work in Progress

Webserver

Work in Progress

wg

Work in Progress

Wi

Work in Progress

winbind

Work in Progress

WireGuard

Work in Progress

WLAN

Work in Progress

Wordpress

Work in Progress

workgroup

Work in Progress

WSGI

Work in Progress

WWID

Work in Progress

wxWidgets

Work in Progress

Xen

Work in Progress

xhtml

Work in Progress

XLOG

Work in Progress

xml

Work in Progress

YAML

Work in Progress

Yubikey

Work in Progress

zFCP

Work in Progress

ZFS

Work in Progress

zpool

Work in Progress

Zytrax’s

Work in Progress