<glossary id="glossary"> <!-- ********************************************************************** glossary.docbook ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ copyright : (C) 2000 - 2008 Rafi Yanai, Shie Erlich, Frank Schoolmeesters & the Krusader Krew e-mail : krusader@users.sourceforge.net web site : http://www.krusader.org description : a Krusader Documentation File *************************************************************************** * Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this * * document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, * * Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software * * Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and * * no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is available on the * * GNU site http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html or by writing to: * * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, * * MA 02110-1301, USA. * *********************************************************************** --> <indexterm> <primary>Glossary</primary> </indexterm> <para>This chapter is intended to explain the various words which have been used throughout the &krusader; documentation. If you believe some acronyms or terms are missing, please do not hesitate to contact the &krusader; documentation team.</para> <para>Thanks to <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/">wikipedia.org</ulink> the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.</para> <glossentry id="gloss-acl"> <glossterm> <acronym>ACL</acronym> </glossterm> <glossdef> <para> <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_control_list"> Access Control List</ulink>; a concept in computer security used to enforce privilege separation. It is a means of determining the appropriate access rights to a given object depending on certain aspects of the process that is making the request.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-bsd"> <glossterm> <acronym>BSD</acronym> </glossterm> <glossdef> <para> <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bsd">Berkeley Software Distribution</ulink>; refers to any of several free &UNIX;-compatible operating systems, derived from <acronym>BSD</acronym>&UNIX;.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-cvs"> <glossterm> <acronym>CVS</acronym> </glossterm> <glossdef> <para> <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_Versions_System"> Concurrent Versions System</ulink>; an important component of Source Configuration Management (SCM). By using it, developers can record the history of source files and documents.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-deb"> <glossterm> <acronym>DEB</acronym> </glossterm> <glossdef> <para>This is a binary file format that is used by <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian"> &debian;</ulink> and &debian;-based distributions. It is a suffix of a installation file specifically built for these distributions; e.g. <filename>krusader_1.70.1-1_amd64.deb</filename>. Simply described it is a special archive containing all the program files and their proposed location on the system.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="glos-dcop"> <glossterm> <acronym>DCOP</acronym> </glossterm> <glossdef> <para> <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dcop">Desktop Communication Protocol</ulink>; the interprocess communication protocol used by &kde; desktop environment. It enables various &kde; applications to communicate with each other.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="glos-faq"> <glossterm> <acronym>FAQ</acronym> </glossterm> <glossdef> <para> <link linkend="faq">Frequently Asked Questions</link>; a document where questions that arise many times are answered. If you have a question to the developers of &krusader;, you should always have a look at the &faq-lnk; first.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="glos-ftp"> <glossterm>&FTP;</glossterm> <glossdef> <para> <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol"> File Transfer Protocol</ulink>; it is an Internet protocol that allows you to retrieve files from so-called &FTP; servers.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-gpl"> <glossterm> <acronym>GPL</acronym> </glossterm> <glossdef> <para> <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpl">GNU General Public License</ulink>; a software license created by the <ulink url="http://www.fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation</ulink> defining the terms for releasing free software.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-gui"> <glossterm>&GUI;</glossterm> <glossdef> <para> <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface"> Graphical User Interface</ulink>.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-iso"> <glossterm> <acronym>ISO</acronym> </glossterm> <glossdef> <para>An <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_image">ISO image</ulink> (.iso) is an informal term for a disk image of an ISO 9660 file system. More loosely, it refers to any optical disk image, even a UDF image.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-keybinding"> <glossterm>Key Binding</glossterm> <glossdef> <para>All features of &krusader; are available through the menubar, but you can also bind (link) a certain key combination to that function. You will find, however, that using the <link linkend="keyboard-commands">keyboard</link> is remakably faster than using the menubar or <link linkend="gloss-gui">GUI</link>. <link linkend="keyboard-commands">Keyboard usage</link> is an important tool for <link linkend="gloss-ofm">Orthodox File Managers</link>. &krusader; comes with several predefined &keybindigs-lnk;.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-kpart"> <glossterm>Kpart</glossterm> <glossdef> <para> <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPart"> Kpart</ulink>; KParts is the name of the component framework for the &kde; desktop environment. KParts are analogous to Bonobo components in &gnome-url;, both of which are based on the same concepts as &Microsoft;'s Object Linking and Embedding. e.g. if you use &krusader;'s viewer to view a PDF file, KPDF wil be launched inside &krusader;'s viewer.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-tdeio"> <glossterm> <acronym>TDEIO</acronym> or tdeioslave</glossterm> <glossdef> <para> <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kioslave">KDE Input/Output</ulink>; also known as &tdeioslaves1-url; is part of the &kde; architecture. It provides access to files, web sites and other resources through a single consistent API.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-mount"> <glossterm>mount</glossterm> <glossdef> <para> <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_%28computing%29"> Mouting</ulink>; in computer science, is the process of making a file system ready for use by the operating system, typically by reading certain index data structures from storage into memory ahead of time. The term recalls a period in the history of computing when an operator had to mount a magnetic tape or hard disk on a spindle before using it.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-ofm"> <glossterm> <acronym>OFM</acronym> </glossterm> <glossdef> <para> <ulink url="http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/index.shtml"> Orthodox File Manager</ulink>; also known as "Commanders". Members of this family of file managers use simple yet very powerful interface that is a direct derivative of the <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander"> Norton Commander</ulink> (NC) interface.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-rpm"> <glossterm>RPM</glossterm> <glossdef> <para>This is the binary file format for distributions based on the <ulink url="http://www.rpm.org/">RPM Package Manager</ulink>, a widely used packaging tool for the &Linux; operating system. If you still have to get &krusader; and your system supports RPM packages, you should get &krusader; packages ending in .rpm.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-ssh"> <glossterm> <acronym>SSH</acronym>, Secure Shell</glossterm> <glossdef> <para> <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH">SSH</ulink>; is a set of standards and an associated network protocol that allows establishing a secure channel between a local and a remote computer.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-svn"> <glossterm> <acronym>SVN</acronym>, Subversion</glossterm> <glossdef> <para> <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversion"> Subversion</ulink>; a version control system that is a compelling replacement for <link linkend="gloss-cvs">CVS</link>. It is used by many software projects including &kde; and &krusader;.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-tde"> <glossterm>&kde;</glossterm> <glossdef> <para> <ulink url="http://www.trinitydesktop.org/">Trinity Desktop Environment</ulink> a project to develop a free graphical desktop environment for &UNIX; compatible systems.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-termemu"> <glossterm>Terminal emulator</glossterm> <glossdef> <para> <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_emulator"> Terminal emulator</ulink>; simply a windowed shell; this is known as command line window in some other environments. If you want to use the shell and type the commands, you should know at least a few of the system-level commands for your operating system.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-posix"> <glossterm> <acronym>POSIX</acronym> </glossterm> <glossdef> <para> <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posix">"Portable Operating System Interface for uniX"</ulink>; a collective name of a family of related standards specified by the IEEE to define the application programming interface (API) for software compatible with variants of the &UNIX; operating system.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-url"> <glossterm> <acronym>&URL;</acronym> </glossterm> <glossdef> <para> <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL">Universal Resource Locater</ulink>; a universal resource locater is the technical term for what is commonly referred to as a websites address. Examples of URLs include <ulink url="http://krusader.sourceforge.net"> http://krusader.sourceforge.net</ulink> and &remote-connections-lnk;.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-vfs"> <glossterm> <acronym>VFS</acronym> </glossterm> <glossdef> <para>&vfs-lnk; is a basic <link linkend="features">OFM feature</link>, this an abstracted layer over all kinds of archived information (ZIP files, FTP servers, TAR archives, NFS filesystems, SAMBA shares, ISO cd/dvd images, RPM catalogs, etc.), which allows the user to access all the information in these divergent types of file systems transparently - just like entering an ordinary sub-directory! &krusader; supports several &vfs-lnk;.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-xml"> <glossterm>XML</glossterm> <glossdef> <para> <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xml">Extensible Markup Language</ulink>; a very flexible text format derived from SGML (ISO 8879). Originally designed to meet the challenges of large-scale electronic publishing, XML is also playing an increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variety of data on the Web and elsewhere.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-zeroconf"> <glossterm>Zeroconf</glossterm> <glossdef> <para> <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroconf">Zeroconf</ulink>; or Zero Configuration Networking is a set of techniques that automatically create a usable IP network without configuration or special servers. This allows inexpert users to connect computers, networked printers, and other items together and expect them to work automatically.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> </glossary>