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+<glossary id="index">
+   <docinfo>
+       <author><firstname>Alexander</firstname> 
+               <surname>Kirillov</surname></author>
+        <author><firstname>Kirrily</firstname> <surname>Robert
+               </surname></author> 
+   </docinfo>
+ <title>Glossary</title>
+        
+
+
+<!-- ===LETTER A=================================== -->
+<glossdiv id="A"><title>A</title>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="applet"><glossterm>Applet</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>An application working inside a small window in a panel. 
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="applauncher"><glossterm>Application launcher</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+       A button in the panel which launches an application or executes
+       a command when pressed. 
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="ascii"><glossterm><acronym>ASCII</acronym></glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>American Standard Code for Information Interchange; the
+	standard describing a collection of characters and codes
+	(i.e. sequences of zeros and ones, or numbers) assigned to
+	them. ASCII characters  include
+	Latin letters, common punctuation marks, some special symbols
+	usually found on the keyboard such as &amp; and $, and some
+	control symbols, such as the codes used for denoting end of
+	line and end of file; it does not include accented
+	symbols. The corresponding codes run from 0 to 127. 
+      </para>
+      <para> When you see a mention of an <quote>ASCII file</quote> or
+       <quote>ASCII text</quote> somewhere, it usually means a plain
+       text file which only uses symbols defined in ASCII standard,
+       with no formatting information such as fonts to be used.
+       </para> <para> ASCII is defined as a standard of American
+       National Standards Institute (ANSI); the offical reference is
+       <quote>ANSI X3.4-1986</quote>. You can find a reproduction of
+       it in many places on the Internet, for example, on <ulink
+       type="http"
+      url="http://coverage.cnet.com/Resources/Info/Glossary/Terms/ascii2.html">
+       CNET Web page</ulink>.
+      </para>
+     <glossseealso otherterm="encoding">
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+ <glossentry id="attachment">
+  <glossterm>Attachment</glossterm>
+  <glossdef>
+   <para>
+    Any file accompanying an e-mail message in a special format so
+    that it can be viewed or saved to disk independently of the main
+    message body. 
+   </para>
+  </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+</glossdiv>
+
+<!-- ===LETTER =================================== -->
+<glossdiv id="B"><title>B</title>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="background"><glossterm>Background</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      To make a program run without any visible output; to put a program
+      which is already running into the background.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+      On the UNIX command line, the character <literal>&amp;</literal>
+      appended to a command will make that command run in the
+      background.
+      </para>
+     <glossseealso otherterm="foreground">
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="binary"><glossterm>Binary</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      An executable program, so called because the file containing the
+      program consists of machine-readable binary digits, i.e. ones and
+      zeroes.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="bit"><glossterm>Bit</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>The minimal possible unit of information, a digit which
+      can take values 0 or 1. Saying
+      that the file has length n bits is equivalent to saying that it
+      can be written as  a sequence of n zeros and ones. 
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="byte"><glossterm>Byte</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>8 <link linkend="bit">bits</link>, i.e. a sequence of 8
+        zeros and ones.There are 256
+        possible such sequences, so one can also say that one byte
+        represents a number ranging from 0 to 255. 
+      </para>
+      <para> Byte is the basic building block of filesystem: all files
+        are composed of bytes. For text files, each byte represents
+        one symbol (see definition of <link
+        linkend="encoding">encoding</link> for more information).
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+</glossdiv>
+
+
+<!-- ===LETTER  C=================================== -->
+<glossdiv id="C"><title>C</title>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="cache"><glossterm>Cache</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      A short-term storage area in RAM or on the hard disk.  Many
+      programs use caches to store recently-accessed files or other
+      items.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="charset">
+     <glossterm>Character set (charset)
+     </glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>A collection of symbols, such as letters of one or several
+      alphabets, digits, punctuation marks, etc. Commonly used
+      together with <link linkend="encoding">encoding</link>.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="clipboard"><glossterm>Clipboard</glossterm>
+      <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      The temporary buffer into which text or other data can be
+      copied, to be used later by pasting into a different location.
+      Most applications support the clipboard either through native
+      mouse-based cut and paste functionality of <link
+      linkend="xwin">X Window System</link>, or through specialised
+      menus and other interfaces.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="clo"><glossterm>Command line options</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      Parameters or arguments given on the UNIX command line after a
+      program name, which tell the program how to run.  For instance, in
+      the command <literal>ls -l</literal> the <literal>-l</literal> is
+      a command line option telling the <command>ls</command> program to
+      produce a <quote>long</quote> listing.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="cursor"><glossterm>Cursor</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      A highlighted or animated icon which indicates the current
+      position of the mouse on the screen, or the position where
+      keyboard input will occur in a text window.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+</glossdiv>
+
+
+<!-- ===LETTER D=================================== -->
+<glossdiv id="D"><title>D</title>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="daemon"><glossterm>Daemon</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      A background process providing basic system or network services.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="desktop"><glossterm>Desktop</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      The visible screen area, on which windows, icons, and other graphical
+      items may be placed.
+      </para>
+     <glossseealso otherterm="vdesktop">
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="desktopenv"><glossterm>Desktop environment</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+	  Software which provides graphical user interface for users
+	  desktop. In addtition to capabilities provided by a <link
+	  linkend="wmanager">window manager</link> (that is, ability
+	  to move, resize, and hide windows), a desktop environment
+	  usually also includes such elements of GUI as a File Manager
+	  with drag-and-drop capabilities, Panel used for keeping your
+	  favorite applications and applets, and a set of other
+	  utilities. Most popular desktop environments for UNIX
+	  include <link linkend="gnome">GNOME</link>, <link
+	  linkend="kde">KDE</link> and CDE (soon to be replaced by
+	  GNOME).
+	</para>
+      </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="device"><glossterm>Device</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      A piece of hardware with which the system interacts, such as a
+      hard disk, modem, or mouse.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="directory"><glossterm>Directory</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+	  A branch within UNIX's hierarchical file system; a
+	  <quote>folder</quote> containing files or other directories
+	  (called <quote>subdirectories</quote>).
+      </para>
+     <glossseealso otherterm="filesystem">
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="dns"><glossterm>DNS</glossterm> 
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+	  Domain Name Service; converting domain names (such as
+	  <systemitem>www.gnome.org</systemitem>) into <link
+	  linkend="ipaddress">IP addresses</link> such as
+	  <systemitem>209.116.70.70</systemitem>. If you want to use
+	  domain names, your computer must be configured to connect to
+	  one of DNS servers which would do this conversion.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+</glossdiv>
+
+
+<!-- ===LETTER E=================================== -->
+<glossdiv id="E"><title>E</title>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="email"><glossterm>Electronic mail (e-mail)</glossterm> 
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+        A way of exchanging messages between users of computers
+        connected to a network (local or Internet). 
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="encoding"><glossterm>Encoding</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>A correspondence between characters of some <link
+      linkend="charset">character set</link> and character codes,
+      i.e. internal computer presentation of the symbols. In order to
+      be able to read a text file, you need to know its character set
+      and encoding.
+      </para>
+	<para>In most encodings, each symbol is represented by one
+	<link linkend="byte">byte</link>, which is equivalent to a
+	number from 0 to 255; the characters corresponding to codes 0
+	to 127 coincide with the <link linkend="ascii">ASCII</link>
+	standard, while the characters with codes higher than 127 vary
+	between encodings. For Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and similar
+	character sets, each symbol is represented by 2 bytes. 
+	</para>
+	<para> The most common encoding is
+	<systemitem>iso-8859-1</systemitem>; in addition to ASCII
+	characters, it also contains accented letters covering most of
+	Western European languages.  </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="envar"><glossterm>Environment variable</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>A global <quote>setting</quote>, or configuration
+      parameter, which is available to all applications. Each
+      environment variable has a name and a value (which usually is a
+      string of symbols or an integer number). Any application you run
+      can access any of the environment variables. For example, there
+      is a standard environment variable <envar>HOME</envar>, whose
+      value is the user's home directory (for example,
+      <filename>/home/joe</filename>), and any application which wants
+      to create a file in your home directory uses this variable to
+      find out what your home directory is.
+      </para>
+      <para> To view all currenlty defined environment variables, use
+      the command <command>printenv</command> (provided that you have
+      GNU shell utils package installed). To modify a value of
+      environment variable, use the command 
+      <command>export
+         <replaceable>NAME</replaceable>= <replaceable>VALUE</replaceable>;
+      </command> if you are using bash <link
+      linkend="shell">shell</link>  or <command>setenv
+         <replaceable>NAME VALUE</replaceable>;</command> if you are
+      using csh or tcsh <link 
+      linkend="shell">shell</link>. 
+     </para> 
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="ethernet"><glossterm>Ethernet</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      A protocol for network communication, developed in the 1980s and
+      commonly used for Local Area Networks (LANs) and other network
+      communication.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+
+
+</glossdiv>
+
+
+<!-- ===LETTER F=================================== -->
+<glossdiv id="F"><title>F</title>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="file"><glossterm>File</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>Any piece of information (text, graphics, executable) put
+      together and given a name. All the information you have on the
+      hard drive is arranged as a collection of  files. 
+      </para>
+     <glossseealso otherterm="filesystem">
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="filesystem"><glossterm>Filesystem</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>A collection of all the files and directories on a system
+      arranged in a tree-like hierarchy.
+      </para>
+     <glossseealso otherterm="file">
+     <glossseealso otherterm="directory">
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="foreground"><glossterm>Foreground</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      To run a program so that its output is visible to the user, or to
+      bring a previously <quote>backgrounded</quote> program to the foreground.
+      Programs running in the foreground can display output and receive
+      input from the user.
+      </para>
+     <glossseealso otherterm="background">
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="ftp">
+    <glossterm>File Transfer Protocol (<acronym>FTP</acronym>)</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>A protocol for exchanging files over the <link
+      linkend="internet">Internet</link> or local network. There is a
+      number of utilities based on this protocol, such as
+      <application>gFTP</application>; you can also use command
+      <command>ftp</command> on the command line. In addition, most
+      file managers and Web browsers have built-in FTP capabilities.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="freesoftware"><glossterm>Free software</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>As defined by Free Software Foundation, free software is
+     software that comes with permission for anyone to use, copy, and
+     distribute, either verbatim or with modifications, either gratis
+     or for a fee. In particular, this means that the source code must
+     be available.
+      </para>
+      <para> 
+         This is very close, but not identical, to the notion of <link
+         linkend="opensource">Open Source</link> software. Detailed
+         discussion of this and related topics can be found on <ulink
+         type="http"
+         url="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">Free
+         Software Foundation's Web page</ulink>. 
+	</para> 
+       
+     <glossseealso otherterm="gpl">
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+
+</glossdiv>
+
+
+<!-- ===LETTER G=================================== -->
+<glossdiv id="G"><title>G</title>
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="gnome"><glossterm><acronym>GNOME</acronym></glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+	  A <link linkend="freesoftware">free</link> <link
+	  linkend="desktopenv">desktop environment</link> for UNIX and
+	  UNIX-like operating systems; one of the two leading desktop
+	  environments for Linux (the other one is <link
+	  linkend="kde">KDE</link>). For more information, please
+	  visit <ulink type="http" url="http:///www.gnome.org/">GNOME
+	  Web site</ulink>.
+	</para>
+	<para> Officially, GNOME stands for GNU Network Object Model
+	  Environment. The only part of this name that really matters is
+	  GNU, which is there to indicate that GNOME is a part of the
+	  larger <link linkend="gnu">GNU project</link>.
+	</para>
+    </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="gnu"><glossterm><acronym>GNU</acronym></glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+        GNU's Not UNIX; a project to develop a complete UNIX-like
+        operating system which is <link linkend="freesoftware">free
+        software</link>. Combination of tools and utilities produced
+        by GNU project with <link linkend="linux">Linux</link> kernel
+        is widely known under the name <quote>Linux operating
+        system</quote>; more accurately, such a system should be
+        called GNU/Linux.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+	  For more information about GNU project, visit its <ulink
+	  type="http" url="http://www.gnu.org/">Web page</ulink>.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="gpl"><glossterm>GNU General Public License 
+                                 (<acronym>GPL</acronym>)</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>A software license developed by the Free Software
+      Foundation. In short, it allows anyone to use, copy, distribute,
+      or sell the software, in original or modified form, as long as
+      you distribute the program's source code along with the
+      binaries, and you distribute them again under the GPL. A copy of
+      the GPL is included as an appendix to GNOME User's guide. You
+      can also view GPL on-line on <ulink type="http"
+      url="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl">FSF's Web page</ulink>.
+      </para>
+      <para> GPL plays an extremely important role in the free
+      software movement; almost all of GNU project software, as well
+      as <link linkend="linux">Linux</link> kernel, is distributed
+      under GPL. For a detailed discussion of history, ideas and
+      philosophy related to GPL and free sofware in general, visit
+      <ulink type="http" url="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy">FSF's Web
+      page</ulink>.
+      </para>	  
+     <glossseealso otherterm="freesoftware">
+     <glossseealso otherterm="opensource">
+     <glossseealso otherterm="gnu">
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="gtk">
+     <glossterm>GIMP Toolkit (<acronym>GTK</acronym>)</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+	  A collection of tools for creating   screen widgets
+	  such as scrollbars, menus, checkbuttons, etc. in 
+	  applications. GTK is used by all GNOME applications. 
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+
+</glossdiv>
+
+
+<!-- ===LETTER H=================================== -->
+<glossdiv id="H"><title>H</title>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+ <glossentry id="hot-key">
+  <glossterm>Hot Key</glossterm>
+  <glossdef>
+   <para>
+    Hot-keys are keyboard combinations used to do actions on a
+    computer instead of using the mouse to do the same action.
+    Hot-keys can speed up computer usage. Also known under the name
+    <quote>keyboard shortcut</quote> or <quote>keyboard
+    accelerator</quote>.
+   </para>
+  </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="html">
+     <glossterm><acronym>HTML</acronym>
+     </glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>Hypertext Markup Language; the language in which all the
+      Web pages in the world are written. HTML can also be used for
+      e-mails, which allows having nicely formatted e-mails, possibly
+      including images and links.
+      </para>
+      <para> More information about HTML can be found on the Web page
+      of <ulink type="http" url="http://www.w3c.org">World Wide Web
+      Consortium</ulink>, which is the official maintainer of HTML
+      standard. 
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="http"><glossterm><acronym>HTTP</acronym></glossterm>
+     <acronym>HTTP</acronym>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      Hypertext Transfer Protocol; the protocol by which web pages and
+      other web-accessible resources are delivered. Whenever you are
+      browsing the Web, your browser uses HTTP to communicate with the
+      Web server and request a Web page. 
+	</para>
+        <para>
+      HTTP is defined in <ulink	  type="http"
+	  url="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt">RFC 1945</ulink>
+      (HTTP 1.0) and <ulink
+	  type="http"
+	  url="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2068.txt">RFC 2068</ulink> 
+        (HTTP 1.1). 
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+</glossdiv>
+
+
+<!-- ===LETTER I=================================== -->
+<glossdiv id="I"><title>I</title>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="ide"><glossterm>IDE</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+	  Intergrated Drive Electronics;  an interface for connecting
+         hard drives and other similar devices to your computer. IDE
+         is an old interface; nowadays, most drives use an enhanced
+         version of IDE, EIDE.  
+      </para>
+     <glossseealso otherterm="SCSI">
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="icon"><glossterm>Icon</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      A small picture used within a graphical user interface to indicate 
+      a program, file, or other part of a computer system.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="internet"><glossterm>Internet</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>Unless you spent the last 20 years on a deserted island,
+      you probably know what Internet is. But just in case: Internet
+      is the network of millions of computers all around the world,
+      connected to each other by some hardware means (cables, wires,
+      phone lines, communication satellites) and communicating with
+      each other using some standard protocols. Internet makes it
+      possible for users of these computers to send and receive
+      <link linkend="email">electronic mail</link>, browse the <link
+      linkend="www">World Wide Web</link>, exchange files (using <link
+      linkend="ftp">FTP protocol</link>), remotely login into your
+      computer from other places (using <link
+      linkend="telnet">telnet</link>), and more.   
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="ipaddress">
+      <glossterm> <acronym>IP</acronym> address</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>A unique address assigned to each computer connected to
+      the <link linkend="internet">Internet</link> or a local
+      network. Has the form <systemitem>a.b.c.d</systemitem>, where
+      a,b,c,d are numbers from 0 to 255, subject to a number of rules
+      and conventions.
+      </para>
+      <para>All communication between computers on the Internet is
+      based on IP addresses; however, on a properly set up network you
+      can instead use domain names (such as www.gnome.org), which are
+      automatically transformed to IP addresses using <link
+      linkend="dns">Domain Name Service</link> (DNS).
+	</para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+
+</glossdiv>
+
+
+<!-- ===LETTER J=================================== 
+<glossdiv id="J"><title>J</title>
+
+
+
+</glossdiv>
+
+-->
+<!-- ===LETTER K=================================== -->
+<glossdiv id="K"><title>K</title>
+
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="kde"><glossterm><acronym>KDE</acronym></glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+	  A <link linkend="desktopenv"> desktop environment</link> for
+	  UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems; one of two leading
+	  desktop environments for Linux (the other one is <link
+	  linkend="gnome">GNOME</link>). For more infrmation visit
+	  <ulink type="http" url="http://www.kde.org">KDE Web
+	  site</ulink>.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="kernel"><glossterm>Kernel</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>The core component of an operating system, responsible for
+      basic operations such as accessing the files, input/output,
+      managing the processor and memory resources, etc. All other
+      tools, utilities, and applications use the kernel. 
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+</glossdiv>
+
+
+<!-- ===LETTER L=================================== -->
+<glossdiv id="L"><title>L</title>
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="linux"><glossterm>Linux</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>A free (as in <link linkend="gpl">GNU GPL</link>) <link
+      linkend="UNIX">UNIX-like</link> operating system, written in
+      collaboration by hundreds of developers all around the world,
+      most of them volunteers. One of the most successful and famous
+      <link linkend="freesoftware">free software</link> projects.
+      </para>
+      <para>Strictly speaking, the name <quote>Linux</quote> only
+      applies to the <link linkend="kernel">kernel</link> of the
+      operating system. Most of other tools and utilities necessary
+      for system functioning came from <link linkend="gnu">GNU
+      project</link>, so the operating system should be properly
+      called <quote>GNU/Linux</quote>; however, for convenience
+      reasons most people use the name Linux for the whole operating
+      system.
+      </para>
+      <para>There is a tremendous amount of information about Linux
+      available on the Internet; good starting points are <ulink
+      type="http"
+      url="http://www.linux.com">www.linux.com</ulink>,
+      <ulink type="http"
+        url="http://www.linux.org">www.linux.org</ulink>. There is
+      also a number of good books about Linux available in bookstores;
+      if you have a Linux system, you probably also have a lot of Linux
+      documentaion installed on your system.    
+     </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="login"><glossterm>login</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      The process by which a user authenticates herself to a computer
+      system, usually by typing in a username and password.
+      </para>
+     <glossseealso otherterm="user">
+     <glossseealso otherterm="username">
+     <glossseealso otherterm="password">
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+</glossdiv>
+
+
+<!-- ===LETTER M=================================== -->
+<glossdiv id="M"><title>M</title>
+
+
+
+ <glossentry id="mail-client">
+  <glossterm>Mail Client</glossterm>
+  <glossdef>
+   <para>
+    An application which a user reads and sends
+    their e-mail with. Also called Mail User Agent (MUA). 
+   </para>
+  </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="manpage"><glossterm>Manual page (manpage)</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      A documentation resource commonly provided with UNIX programs.
+      Manual pages typically contain concise technical listings of
+      available <link linkend="clo">command line options</link> and
+      other settings which affect the running of the program. Can be
+      viewed using GNOME Help Browser or by typing <command>man
+      <replaceable>commandname</replaceable></command> on the command
+      line.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="menu"><glossterm>Menu</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      A list of possible actions or options available within a program.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="mime"><glossterm>MIME type</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+	A <quote>type</quote> of the file, describing what kind of
+	data and in which format this file contains; for example, MIME
+	type <filename>image/jpeg</filename> is used for graphic files
+	in JPEG format. Used by many applications (such as file
+	manager) to determine what application should be used to open
+	or edit a given file. This can be configured using
+	<application>GNOME Control Center</application>.
+      </para>
+	<para> The acronym MIME stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail
+	Extension, since originally it was used to describe types of
+	files sent in e-mail. 
+	</para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="mount"><glossterm>Mount</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      A command instructing the operating system to incorporate
+      contents of a <link linkend="device">device</link> (such as a
+      hard drive or a CD-ROM) into the system's link <link
+      linkend="filesystem">file system</link>. Requires the device
+      name (e.g. <filename>/dev/cdrom</filename>) and the mount point,
+      i.e. the name of the directory under which the contents of the
+      device will be shown (e.g.,
+      <filename>/mnt/cdrom</filename>). You must mount any device
+      before you can access files on it, and unmount it before
+      physically disconnnecting or removing the drive. For more
+      information, see Appendix <citetitle>If you are new to
+      UNIX</citetitle> in <citetitle>GNOME User's Guide</citetitle> or
+      manual page for <command>mount</command>.  <!--
+ 
+To make a
+      <link linkend="device">device</link> accessible via the UNIX
+      <link linkend="filesystem">file system</link>. -->
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="mountpoint"><glossterm>Mount point</glossterm>
+     <glosssee otherterm="mount">
+ <!-- <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      The directory on which a <link linkend="device">device</link> is
+      mounted.  For instance, a CD-ROM disk may be mounted on the
+      directory <filename>/mnt/cdrom</filename>.  That directory would
+      be referred to as the mount point.
+      </para>
+     <glossseealso otherterm="mount">
+     </glossdef> -->
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="mousecursor"><glossterm>Mouse cursor</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      An small icon (usually an arrow) used to indicate the position
+      of the mouse on the <link linkend="desktop">desktop</link>.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+
+</glossdiv>
+
+
+<!-- ===LETTER N=================================== -->
+<glossdiv id="N"><title>N</title>
+
+ <glossentry id="nautilus">
+  <glossterm>Nautilus</glossterm>
+  <glossdef>
+   <para>
+    <application>Nautilus</application> is the next generation file
+    manager for <acronym>GNOME</acronym> being written by Eazel.
+   </para>
+  </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+</glossdiv>
+
+
+<!-- ===LETTER O=================================== -->
+<glossdiv id="O"><title>O</title>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="opensource"><glossterm>Open Source</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+	  Refers to software for which both the executable files and
+	  the source code can be freely redistributed and re-used in
+	  other products. This term was introduced by <ulink
+	  type="http" url="http://www.opensource.org/">Open Source
+	  Intiative</ulink>; it is very close, but not identical to
+	  the notion of <link linkend="freesoftware">free
+	  software</link> used by the Free software Foundation.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+</glossdiv>
+
+
+<!-- ===LETTER P=================================== -->
+<glossdiv id="P"><title>P</title>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="partition"><glossterm>Partition</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+	Hard disks and other similar devices can be
+	<quote>divided</quote> into parts which, for all practical
+	purposes, can be used as separate disks; these parts are
+	called partitions. For example, you can create partitions of
+	differrent types (e.g., <filename>FAT32</filename> used by
+	Windows and <filename>ext2</filename> used by Linux) on the
+	same disk, format them independently of each other, and so
+	on. 
+      </para>
+     <glossseealso otherterm="device">
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="password"><glossterm>Password</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      A string of typable characters (letters, numbers, punctuation
+      marks, etc.) used to authenticate a user's
+      identity. Required for <link linkend="login">logging in</link>.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="pid">
+     <glossterm>Process ID (<acronym>PID</acronym>)</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+	<para>
+	  The ID number by which the system identifies individual processes.
+	  The first process to run on the system has PID 0.
+	</para>
+	<glossseealso otherterm="process">
+     </glossdef>
+   </glossentry>
+
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="pixel"><glossterm>Pixel</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      A single element, or <quote>dot</quote>, on the computer's
+      screen.  A pixel's colour is made up of a mixture of red, green
+      and blue light. Screen resolution is measured in pixels.
+      </para>
+     <glossseealso otherterm="resolution">
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="pointer"><glossterm>Pointer</glossterm>
+     <glosssee otherterm="mousecursor">
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="ppp">
+      <glossterm>Point-to-point protocol (<acronym>PPP</acronym>) </glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      A protocol allowing a computer to connect to a <link
+      linkend="tcpip">TCP/IP</link> network via a modem.  A PPP
+      connection allows an ordinary home computer connected to a
+      telephone line to become a part of the <link
+      linkend="internet">Internet</link>
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="postscript"><glossterm>Postscript</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>A language for desribing printed pages, developed by
+      <ulink type="http" url="http://www.adobe.com">Adobe
+      Corporation</ulink>. Can be used to describe both graphics and
+      text, black and white or color. Postscript is the
+      de-facto standard for quality printing;  almost all printing
+      in UNIX is done by converting the data to be printed to
+      Postscript before sending it to printer. If your printer does
+      not have built-in Postscript capabilities, then your system is
+      probably configured to convert Postscript to something you
+      printer can print.
+      </para>
+      <para> Postscript files can  also be saved to disk; they usually
+      have extension <filename>.ps</filename>. There is a number of
+      utilities for viewing Postscript files, such as
+      <application>gv</application> or
+      <application>ggv</application>.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="process"><glossterm>Process</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para> A task run by the operating system. UNIX is a
+      multitasking sytem, so at any given moment there are many
+      processes running. Usually, each command or application you
+      start is run as a new process; some applications may run several
+      processes. In addition, there is also a number of system
+      processes which run in the background to ensure proper
+      functioning of the system. 
+      </para>
+      <para>Each process has a unique ID number
+      (<acronym>PID</acronym>). You can view the list of all the
+      processes running on your system using <application>GNOME System
+      monitor (gtop)</application> or
+      <application>Ktop</application>. See the documentation for these
+      applications for more information. 
+      </para> 
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+
+
+</glossdiv>
+
+
+<!-- ===LETTER Q=================================== 
+<glossdiv id="Q"><title>Q</title>
+
+</glossdiv>
+-->
+
+<!-- ===LETTER R=================================== -->
+<glossdiv id="R"><title>R</title>
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="resolution"><glossterm>Resolution</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      A measurement indicating the height and width of the visible
+      screen of a computer in <link linkend="pixel">pixels</link>.
+      Typical resolutions include 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="rootdir"><glossterm>Root directory</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      The top level directory of a UNIX file system, containing all
+      other files and directories. Root directory is denoted by a
+      single slash (<filename>/</filename>).  
+      </para>
+     <glossseealso otherterm="filesystem">
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="rootuser"><glossterm>Root (user)</glossterm>
+    <glossdef>
+      <para>
+        The privileged user on a UNIX system; has full control over
+        the system and all files on it, including those of other
+        users. Is typically used by system administartor for system
+        maintenance. 
+	</para>
+      <glossseealso otherterm="sysadmin">
+      </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="rootwindow"><glossterm>Root window</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      The background of an X11 desktop, in which background images
+      (<quote>wallpaper</quote>) or running programs may be displayed.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="rpm">
+     <glossterm><acronym>RPM</acronym> package</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>A file containing in it in a packed form all the files
+      comprising an application (executable files, documentation,
+      configuration, etc.), plus some extra information about the
+      application, such as a brief description and dependency
+      information. The RPM format makes installing, un-installing,
+      upgrading, and keeping track of the applications installed on
+      your system very easy. There is a number of tools available for
+      working with RPM packages, such as
+      <application>gnorpm</application> or
+      <application>Kpackage</application>. For those who prefer the
+      command line, there is also the <command>rpm</command> command.
+      See the documentation for these utilities or <ulink type="http"
+      url="http://www.rpm.org">RPM's Web page</ulink> for more information.  
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       RPM format was developed by <ulink type="http"
+       url="http://www.redhat.com">Red Hat, Inc</ulink>; the acronym
+       RPM stands for RPM Package Manager.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+</glossdiv>
+
+
+<!-- ===LETTER S=================================== -->
+<glossdiv id="S"><title>S</title>
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="screen"><glossterm>Screen</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      The physical monitor device of a computer, consisting of a cathode
+      ray tube, liquid crystal display, or similar means of displaying
+      <link linkend="pixel">pixels</link>; the visible picture displayed
+      on the monitor.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="screensaver"><glossterm>Screensaver</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      A program which blanks the screen or displays pretty or
+      entertaining graphics after a period of inactivity on the
+      console.  Originally intended to prevent <quote>burn-in</quote>
+      of images on older cathode-ray tubes, screensavers are now used
+      primarily for entertainment purposes or to lock an unused
+      terminal, requiring the user to enter a <link
+      linkend="password">password</link> to return to the normal
+      display.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="script"><glossterm>Script</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+       A program written in an interpreted language, i.e. a language
+       where the commands are executed one by one as you enter them
+       (as opposed to compiled languages, in which the whole program
+       must first be translated into machine codes (compiled) to
+       create an executable file). By far the most common type of
+       scripts are shell scripts, which are simply sequences of <link
+       linkend="shell">shell</link> commands. Other popular types of
+       scripts are javascripts used in Web pages, perl scripts and
+       Tcl/Tk scripts.
+      </para>
+     <glossseealso otherterm="shell">
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="scsi"><glossterm><acronym>SCSI</acronym></glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+         Small Computer System Interface; an interface for connecting
+         various computer components, such as hard drives. Works
+         faster than the more common <link linkend="ide">IDE</link>
+         interface, but is more expensive, so it is used mostly on
+         servers.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+
+  <glossentry id="segfault">
+      <glossterm>Segmentation fault (segfault)</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+	  A program crash. More precisely, this is what happens when a
+	  program tries to access resources which do not belong to it;
+	  in such a case, for security reasons the operating system
+	  immediately kills the offending program. Segfaults are
+	  almost always caused by bugs in the program. 
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="shell"><glossterm>Shell</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      Any of a number of UNIX programs which interpret commands typed
+      by the user before passing them to the operating system and
+      provide other features such as command history, aliasing, and
+      scripting.  Examples include <command>bash</command> and
+      <command>tcsh</command>.  Shells are often displayed in a <link
+      linkend="terminal">terminal</link> window.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+ <glossentry id="smtp">
+  <glossterm>SMTP</glossterm>
+  <glossdef>
+   <para>
+      Simple Mail Transfer Protocol; a protocol used for exchanging
+    electronic mail messages between machines on a network. 
+   </para>
+  </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+ <glossentry id="spam">
+  <glossterm>Spam</glossterm>
+  <glossdef>
+   <para>
+    Useless e-mail.  Spam normally comes in forms of
+    chain-letters and advertisements for websites or services.
+   </para>
+  </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="symlink"><glossterm>Symbolic link (symlink)</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      A file of special type which contains no data but instead, points
+      to another file or directory. Equivalent
+      to a <quote>shortcut</quote> under Windows.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="sysadmin"><glossterm>System administrator</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      The person responsible for administration and maintenance of a
+      computer system.
+      </para>
+    <glossseealso otherterm="rootuser">
+     </glossdef>
+   </glossentry>
+
+
+
+</glossdiv>
+
+
+<!-- ===LETTER T=================================== -->
+<glossdiv id="T"><title>T</title>
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="tarball"><glossterm>Tar archive (tarball)</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      A file created using the <command>tar</command> (Tape ARchive)
+      program, which conglomerates multiple files, or even a whole
+      directory tree, into one file for easy storage or transfer.  These
+      archives are often compressed using the <command>gzip</command>
+      program and given a filename extension of
+      <filename>.tar.gz</filename>.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+ <glossentry id="tcpip"><glossterm>TCP/IP</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+	  Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol; pair of
+	  protocols used for all communication between computers on
+	  the Internet and most local networks. TCP/IP serves as a
+	  basis for higher level protocols (FTP, telnet, SMTP,
+	  &hellip;): all information sent from one computer to another
+	  on the Internet, be it an e-mail message or a Web page, is
+	  sent as a collection of TCP/IP packets.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+ 
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="telnet"><glossterm>Telnet</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>A protocol allowing logging into your computer account
+       via Internet or local network from another computer; also, the
+       command using this protocol.  For more
+       information, see manual page for <command>telnet</command>.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="terminal"><glossterm>Terminal</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>Originally, a physical device, a monitor capable of
+      showing text output with a connected keyboard. Nowadays, mostly
+      used to refer to a window on your screen which emulates one of
+      these terminals and provides a command line prompt for entering
+      commands and running text-based applications.  
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="theme"><glossterm>Theme</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      An integrated collection of graphical elements intended to give
+      the desktop a certain look and feel.  Common theme components
+      include matching backgrounds, icons, and window decorations.
+      </para>
+      <para> The look of GNOME desktop is determined by 2 themes: a
+      GTK theme, which determines the look of application menus,
+      toolbars and other widgets, and window manager theme, which
+      determines  window borders, buttons, and window title font. 
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+
+</glossdiv>
+
+
+<!-- ===LETTER U=================================== -->
+<glossdiv id="U"><title>U</title>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="unicode"><glossterm>Unicode</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+	A <link linkend="charset">character set</link> which strives 
+	to include all symbols in all human alphabets, and all special
+	symbol used by people. It is a work in progress; the latest
+	version of Unicode (3.0) includes 49,194 characters and covers
+	languages ranging from English to Chinese to Cherokee. For
+	more  information, see <ulink type="http"
+	url="http://www.unicode.org/">Unicode 
+	Consortium Web site</ulink>.  
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="UNIX"><glossterm>UNIX</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      An operating system originally developed at Bell Labs in the early
+      1970s by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie; any of a large number of
+      operating systems sharing many features with the original UNIX
+      operating system, such as Sun's <systemitem>Solaris</systemitem>
+      or IBM's <systemitem>AIX</systemitem>.
+      </para>
+      <para> For legal reasons, operating systems such as
+	<systemitem>FreeBSD</systemitem> and
+	<systemitem>Linux</systemitem> can not be called UNIX, but
+	they do share all important features with UNIX systems; thus,
+	they are commonly called <quote>UNIX-like</quote>.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="usb"><glossterm>USB</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>Universal Serial Bus; an  interface for connecting
+      various peripherals, from keyboard to digital cameras, to the
+      computer. 
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="user"><glossterm>User</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      An actual person who uses a computer system, identified by a
+      unique <link linkend="username">username</link>, or a virtual
+      person or <quote>role</quote> similarly identified by a unique
+      username.  Virtual users may be used to run <link
+      linkend="daemon">daemons</link> or other software.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="username"><glossterm>Username</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      A string of alphanumeric characters uniquely identifying a <link
+      linkend="user">user</link> of a computer system.  Most usernames
+      are based on the user's real name, so Mary Smith might have the
+      username <quote>mary</quote> or <quote>msmith</quote>.
+      </para>
+     <glossseealso otherterm="login">
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="url">
+     <glossterm>Uniform Resource Locator (<acronym>URL</acronym>)</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>An <quote>address</quote>, or <quote>location</quote>, of
+	  a document. Most common URL types are a Web address (such as
+	  <systemitem>http://www.gnome.org</systemitem>), a file on a
+	  FTP server (e.g.,
+	  <systemitem>ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub</systemitem>), or a file
+	  on your own local system (e.g.,
+	  <systemitem>file:/usr/doc/</systemitem>). Formal definition
+	  of URL (which is a subset of more general notion, Uniform
+	  Resource Identifier (URI)) is given in <ulink type="http"
+	  url="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC2396</ulink>,
+	  (beware: as any formal deinition, this one is way too
+	  technical for greater majority of users).
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+</glossdiv>
+
+
+<!-- ===LETTER V=================================== -->
+<glossdiv id="V"><title>V</title>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="vdesktop"><glossterm>Virtual desktop</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+	  Some <link linkend="wmanager">window managers</link> allow
+	  the user to have several <quote>virtual desktops</quote>;you
+	  could have application windows open and working on all of
+	  them, even though at every moment, only one of the virtual
+	  desktops is shown on your screen.  Similar to having several
+	  physical desks in your office so that you can put your
+	  papers on all of them, even though you can only work at one
+	  desk at a time
+	</para>
+     <glossseealso otherterm="workspace">
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+</glossdiv>
+
+
+<!-- ===LETTER W=================================== -->
+<glossdiv id="W"><title>W</title>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="widget"><glossterm>Widget</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      A single element of a graphical user interface, such as a button,
+      scrollbar, or text input area.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="window"><glossterm>Window</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      The interface element used to display most applications under a
+      windowing GUI such as <link linkend="xwin">X Window
+      System</link>.  Windows typically consist of a main area in
+      which typing or other work occurs, a title bar (which may
+      contain buttons to minimize, maximize or close the window),
+      window-specific menus, and a scroll bar down either side of the
+      window if required.
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="wmanager"><glossterm>Window manager</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      A program which extends the capabilities of the  <link
+      linkend="xwin">X Window System</link> by providing
+      most of the user-friendly <link linkend="widget">widgets</link>
+      people expect from a windowing system, such as window borders,
+      buttons and menus,  ways of moving, resizing, and hiding
+      windows, placing the icons on your desktop,  and so on.  Examples of
+      window managers include <application>Sawfish</application> and
+      <application>Windowmaker</application>. 
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="workspace"><glossterm>Workspace</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+	<para>
+	  Same as <link linkend="vdesktop">virtual desktop</link>. 
+	</para>
+      </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="www">
+    <glossterm>World Wide Web (<acronym>WWW</acronym>)</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+         The most visible part of the <link
+         linkend="internet">Internet</link>; the World Wide Web is
+         formed by  all the
+         Web pages available  on the Internet and all the links among
+         them.  
+      </para>
+     <glossseealso otherterm="html">
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+
+</glossdiv>
+
+
+<!-- ===LETTER X=================================== -->
+<glossdiv id="X"><title>X</title>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="xwin"><glossterm>X Window System</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>A graphical system commonly used with UNIX operating
+      systems; also known under the names X11 or simply X.  X is
+      responsible for putting windows, icons, text, and other
+      graphical elements on your screen. X is always used in
+      combination with <link linkend="wmanager">window manager</link>,
+      which provides higher level functions such as moving,
+      minimizing, and maximizing windows. 
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="x11"><glossterm>X11</glossterm>
+     <glosssee otherterm="xwin">
+  </glossentry>
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="xfree"><glossterm>XFree86</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>A freely  redistributable implementation of the 
+     <link linkend="xwin">X Window System</link>
+     that runs on UNIX-like operating systems (and OS/2).  For more
+     information, visit <ulink type="http"
+     url="http://www.xfree86.org/">XFree86 Web page</ulink>.  
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+<!-- ==================== -->
+  <glossentry id="xserver"><glossterm>X server</glossterm>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      </para>
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+</glossdiv>
+
+
+<!-- ===LETTER Y=================================== 
+<glossdiv id="Y"><title>Y</title>
+
+</glossdiv>
+
+-->
+<!-- ===LETTER Z=================================== 
+<glossdiv id="Z"><title>Z</title>
+
+</glossdiv>
+-->
+
+<!-- ===LETTER =================================== 
+<glossdiv id=""><title></title>
+  ==================== 
+  <glossentry id=""><glossterm></glossterm>
+     <acronym></acronym>
+     <glossdef>
+      <para>
+      </para>
+     <glossseealso otherterm="">
+     </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
+
+</glossdiv>
+-->
+
+</glossary>
+
+
+
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