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ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
AIX Advanced Interactive eXecutive
API application programming interface
ATA AT Attachment
AVC Access Vector Cache
BDP bandwidth delay product
BSD Berkeley Software Distribution
BSS block storage segment
CEC central electronics complex
CFQ Complete Fair Queuing
CPU central processing unit
CSV comma separated values
CUPS Common UNIX Printing System
DF decision federator
DMA direct memory access
DNAT dynamic network address translation
DNS Domain Name System
DS directory services
FAT file allocation table
FIFO first-in-first-out
FQDN fully qualified domain name
FS fibre-channel service
FTP File Transfer Protocol
GNU GNU’s Not Unix
GPL general public license
GRUB grand unified bootloader
GUI Graphical User Interface
HBA host bus adapter
HPC high performance computing
HTML Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
IBM International Business Machines Corporation
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
IDE integrated drive electronics
IP Internet Protocol
IRC interregion communication
IRQ interrupt request
ISV independent software vendor
ITSO International Technical Support Organization
Abbreviations and acronyms
JFS Journal File System
KDE K Desktop Environment
LAN local area network
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LIFO last-in first-out
LRU Least Recently Used
LSI large-scale integration
LSM Linux Security Modules
LWP Light Weight Process
MAC Medium Access Control
MTU maximum transmission units
NAPI network API
NFS Network File System
NGPT Next Generation POSIX Thread
NIC Network Information Center
NLWP number of light weight processes
NOOP no operation
NPTL Native POSIX Thread Library
NUMA Non-Uniform Memory Access
OSI open systems interconnection
PC path control
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
PID process ID
POSIX Portable Operating System Interface for
Computer Environments
PPID parent process ID
PRI primary rate interface
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks
RAM random access memory
RFC Request for Comments
RPM Redhat Package Manager
RSS rich site summary
SACK selective acknowledgment
SATA Serial ATA
SCSI Small Computer System Interface
SMP symmetric multiprocessor
SMT symmetric multithreading
SMTP Simple Mail Transport Protocol
SUSE Software Und System Entwicklung
SWAT Samba Web Administration Tool