# Acronyms and Terms

ABI

- Application Binary Interface

ALSA

- Advanced Linux Sound Architecture

API

- Application Programming Interface

ASCII

- American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ATA

- Advanced Technology Attachment (see IDE)

BIOS

- Basic Input/Output System

bless

- manipulate a filesystem so that OF will boot from it

BSD

- Berkeley Software Distribution

CBLFS

- Community Driven Beyond Linux From Scratch

chroot

- change root

CLFS

- Cross-Compiled Linux From Scratch

CMOS

- Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

COS

- Class Of Service

CPU

- Central Processing Unit

CRC

- Cyclic Redundancy Check

DHCP

- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DNS

- Domain Name Service

EGA

- Enhanced Graphics Adapter

ELF

- Executable and Linkable Format

EOF

- End of File

EQN

- equation

ext2

- second extended file system

ext3

- third extended file system

ext4

- fourth extended file system

FAQ

- Frequently Asked Questions

FHS

- Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

FIFO

- First-In, First Out

FQDN

- Fully Qualified Domain Name

FTP

- File Transfer Protocol

GB

- Gigabytes

GCC

- GNU Compiler Collection

GID

- Group Identifier

GMT

- Greenwich Mean Time

HTML

- Hypertext Markup Language

IDE

- Integrated Drive Electronics

IEEE

- Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

IO

- Input/Output

IP

- Internet Protocol

IPC

- Inter-Process Communication

IRC

- Internet Relay Chat

ISO

- International Organization for Standardization

ISP

- Internet Service Provider

KB

- Kilobytes

LED

- Light Emitting Diode

LFS

- Linux From Scratch

LSB

- Linux Standard Base

MB

- Megabytes

MBR

- Master Boot Record

MD5

- Message Digest 5

NIC

- Network Interface Card

NLS

- Native Language Support

NPTL

- Native POSIX Threading Library

OF

- Open Firmware

OSS

- Open Sound System

PCH

- Pre-Compiled Headers

PID

- Process Identifier

PTY

- pseudo terminal

QA

- Quality Assurance

QOS

- Quality Of Service

RAM

- Random Access Memory

RPC

- Remote Procedure Call

RTC

- Real Time Clock

SCO

- The Santa Cruz Operation

SATA

- Serial ATA

SGR

- Select Graphic Rendition

SHA1

- Secure-Hash Algorithm 1

TLDP

- The Linux Documentation Project

TFTP

- Trivial File Transfer Protocol

TLS

- Thread-Local Storage

UID

- User Identifier

umask

- user file-creation mask

USB

- Universal Serial Bus

UTC

- Coordinated Universal Time

UUID

- Universally Unique Identifier

VC

- Virtual Console

VGA

- Video Graphics Array

VT

- Virtual Terminal