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 <title>Glossary</title>
        


<!-- ===LETTER A=================================== -->
<glossdiv id="A"><title>A</title>

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  <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>


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  <glossentry id="ascii"><glossterm>ASCII</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>


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 <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>

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<glossdiv id="B"><title>B</title>

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  <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>

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  <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>



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  <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>

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  <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>

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  <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>



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  <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>

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  <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>

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  <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>

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  <glossentry id="daemon"><glossterm>Daemon</glossterm>
     <glossdef>
      <para>
      A background process providing basic system or network services.
      </para>
     </glossdef>
  </glossentry>

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  <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>



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  <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>


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  <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>





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  <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>

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  <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>

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  <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>



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  <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>

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  <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>

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  <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>

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  <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>


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  <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>


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<glossdiv id="G"><title>G</title>
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  <glossentry id="gnome"><glossterm>GNOME</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>GNU</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>

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  <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>HTML</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>HTTP</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>


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<glossdiv id="J"><title>J</title>



</glossdiv>

-->
<!-- ===LETTER K=================================== -->
<glossdiv id="K"><title>K</title>



<!-- ==================== -->
  <glossentry id="kde"><glossterm>KDE</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>RPM 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>SCSI</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>

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  <glossentry id="workspace"><glossterm>Workspace</glossterm>
     <glossdef>
	<para>
	  Same as <link linkend="vdesktop">virtual desktop</link>. 
	</para>
      </glossdef>
  </glossentry>


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  <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>



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  <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>

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  <glossentry id="x11"><glossterm>X11</glossterm>
     <glosssee otherterm="xwin" />
  </glossentry>

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  <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>


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  <glossentry id="xserver"><glossterm>X server</glossterm>
     <glossdef>
      <para>
      </para>
     </glossdef>
  </glossentry>


</glossdiv>


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     <glossdef>
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      </para>
     <glossseealso otherterm=""/>
     </glossdef>
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