Acronyms

A list of commonly used acronyms and their definitions.

Numbers

11.2 - openSUSE 11.2
11.3 - openSUSE 11.3
11.4 - openSUSE 11.4
12.1 - openSUSE 12.1
12.2 - openSUSE 12.2
12.3 - openSUSE 12.3
13.1 - openSUSE 13.1

A

ACPI - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
APIC - Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (see also PIC and related)
APT - Stands for Advanced Package Tool which is used in Debian based Linux distributions, not in openSUSE which is RPM based.

B

Bash - Bourne-again shell
BIOS - Basic Input Output System
BNC - Bugzilla.Novell.Com
BOO - Bugzilla.OpenSUSE.Org
BSC - Bugzilla.Suse.Com
BST - Build Service Team
BTDT - Been There Done That

C

CD - Compact disc
CLI - Command-Line Interface
CMS - Content Management System
CUPS - Common Unix Printing System
CVE - Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

D

DE - Desktop Environment
DMA - Direct Memory Access
DNS - Domain Name Service
DRCS - Distributed Revision Control System
DSL - Digital Subscriber Line (see ADSL)
DTD - Document Type Definition
DVD - Digital Versatile Disc

E

E-MAIL - Electronic Mail
EIGRP - Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol - An IP routing protocol.
ESD - Electrostatic Discharge
EMACS - Text Editor [Unix]
ENDEC - Encoder/Decoder
EOA - End Of Address
EOF - End Of File
ERR - Error

F

openSUSE:FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions, see also openSUSE FAQ
FF - Firefox
FOSDEM - Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting
FOSS - Free and Open Source Software
FSF - Free Software Foundation
FTP - File Transfer Protocol

G

GCC - GNU Compiler Collection
GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program
GLBP - Gateway Load Balancing Protocol - An IP routing protocol.
GNOME - Historically, it started as GNU Network Object Model Environment, but today it is just the name for the very popular desktop environment GNOME.
GNU - GNU's Not Unix
GPL - GNU General Public License
GTK - GIMP Toolkit
GUI - Graphical User Interface

H

HAL - Hardware Abstraction Layer
HAND - Have A Nice Day
HANN - Have A Nice Night
HCL - Hardware Compatibility List
HTH - Hope That Helps
HTML - HyperText Markup Language
HTTP - HyperText Transfer Protocol

I

IDE - Integrated Drive Electronics (see also EIDE, ATA, SATA, PATA)
IP - Internet Protocol
IPP - Internet Printing Protocol
IRC - Internet Relay Chat
IRQ - Interrupt ReQuest
IT - Information Technology

J

jftc - Just For The Record
JSC - Jira.Suse.Com

K

KDE - Kool Desktop Environment

L

LAN - Local Area Network
LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LDP - Linux Documentation Project
LGPL - GNU Lesser General Public License
LPD - Line Printer Daemon Protocol (see also SDB:Printing via TCP/IP network)
LSB - Linux Standard Base
LVM - Logical Volume Management
LVS - Linux Virtual Server - Load balancing software
LWE - Linux World Expo conferences

M

MVC - Model–View–Controller
MIMD - multiple instructions, multiple data

N

NFS - Network File System
NOA - Novell Open Audio
NOC - Network Operations Center
NUMA - Non-Uniform Memory Access

O

OSC - openSuSE Build Service commandline client
oSC - Open SuSE Conference
OSEM - Open Source Event Manager
OSPF - Open Shortest Path First - An IP routing protocol.

P

PC - Personal Computer
PDF - Portable Document Format (see also Adobe Reader)
PHP - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
PIC - Programmable Interrupt Controller (see also APIC)
PPD - PostScript Printer Description (nowadays also for non-PostScript printers)
PS - PostScript

Q

QA - Quality Assurance

R

rcd - Red Carpet Daemon
RPM - Originally standing for Red Hat Package Manager, it now stands for RPM Package Manager. A recursive acronym, one of many in Linux inspired by GNU - GNU is not UNIX.
RCS - Revision Control System

S

S.u.S.E - original SUSE company name, meaning "Software- und System-Entwicklung" ("Software and system development"). Also see the Good Bye Dots page.
SUSE - a brand name, only historically related to the S.u.S.E. abbreviation.
SDB - Support Data Base
SDK - Software Development Kit
SESUSE - Security Enhanced SUSE
SIMD - single instruction, multiple data (see also: MIMD)
SLED - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
SLES - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SLICK - Super LIte Core + Kde was attempt to make SUSE light and fast. That effort is now part of the core distribution. SLICK as separate project does not exist.
SR - Support Request for SLED or SLES products
SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics

T

TAG - The Attachmate Group
TLA - Three Letter Acronym
TSP - Travel Support Program
TLB - translation lookaside buffer

U

UPS - Uninterruptible power supply
USB - Universal Serial Bus

V

VM - Virtual Machine
VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network
VXLAN - Virtual Extensible Local Area Network

W

WIP - Work in Progress
WLAN - Wireless Local Area Network
Wine - Wine Is Not an Emulator - a compatibility layer for running Windows programs under Linux.

X

XFCE - originally stood for "XForms Common Environment"
XML - Extensible Markup Language

Y

YaST - Yet another Setup Tool is the set of tools for software management and system configuration.
YOU - YaST Online Update is one of YaST modules (tools) used to perform manual system update.
YUM - |Yellow dog Updater, Modified is used in many RPM based distributions, but not in openSUSE that has YaST modules for package management and Zypper.

Z

ZYPP - Zen / YaST Packages Patches Patterns Products - The openSUSE package management handling.
ZLM - ZENworks Linux Management from openSUSE perspective obsolete management concept