AFS

Andrew File System

DAEMON

Disk And Execution MONitor

  • Notes: actually a backronym

DOS

Disk Operating System

FS

File System

NFS

Network File System

POSIX

Portable Operating System Interface

STDERR

Standard Error

  • Description: standard error device

STDIN

Standard Input

  • Description: standard input device

STOUT

Standard Output

  • Description: standard output device

VFS

Virtual File System

Linux

HCI

Host Controller Interface

KDE

K Destop Environment

KDM

KDE Display Manager

KFM

KDE File Manager

KIO

K Input / Output

KVM

Kernel-based Virtual Machine

KWM

KDE Window Manager

LAMP

Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP

LAMPP

Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP and PERL

LDP

Linux Documentation Project

LILO

LInux (boot) LOader

S.u.S.E.

Software Und SystemEntwicklung

SBF

Simple Boot Flag

Unix

AIX

Advanced Interactive eXecutive

BFD

Binary File Descriptor

BPF

Berkeley Packet Filter

COFF

Common Object File Format

DAC

Discretionary Access Control

ELF

Executable and Linkable Format

FSS

Fast System Switch

KPI

Kernel Programming Interface

MX

Mail eXchange

NS

Name Server

PID

Process IDentification number

POSIX

Portable Operating System for unIX

PPID

Parent Process IDentification number

SPL

Set Priority Level

SSH

Secure SHell

SSH2

Secure SHell version 2

TELNET

TELephone NETwork

TELNETD

Telnet DAEMON

TERMCAP

TERMinal CAPability

TERMINFO

TERMinal INFOrmation

Commands

ADB

A DeBugger

AWK

al Aho, peter Weinberger, brian Kernighan

BASH

Bourne-Again SHell

CD

Change Directory

CPIO

CoPy In/Out

CSH

C SHell

DF

Disk Free

DU

Disk Used

EGREP

Extended Global Regular Expression Print

FGREP

Fixed Global Regular Expression Print

FSCK

File System Consistency checK

GASH

Group Admin SHell

GREP

Global Regular Expression Print

KSH

Korn SHell

LP

Line Printer

NL

Number Lines

PS

Process Status

PWD

Print Working Directory

RSH

Remote SHell

SED

Stream EDitor

SU

Switch User

TAR

Tape ARchiver

TCSH

Trustedi C SHell

TROFF

Typesetter New Run-OFF

UUCP

Unix to Unix Copy Protocol

VI

VIsual editor

VIM

VI Improved

WC

Word Count

YACC

Yet Another Compiler Compiler

YAST

Yet Another Setup Tool

YP

Yellow Pages