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Acronyms
Assistive Technology _Handicaped _Access; _Speech Recognition; _Voice Recognition
_Archives:

_Backing up _Backups; _Archiving
_Benchmarks _Benchmarking; _BogoMIPS
_Books Specific books are listed only with their subject.
_Browsers for internets _Amaya, _Communicator, _Lynx, _Mnemonic, _Mozilla, _Netscape, _Opera
_Business _Accounting; _Bookkeeping; _Credit Card; _Smart Card; _Financial
_Buying stuff _Shopping; _Stores; Guides, etc.
_Character sets
_Communication
_CORBA, _ORB
_Cryptography Coding; Decoding; Encipher; Decipher; Encryption; Decryption; _PGP; Also see "Security".
_Country Links, Linux by language group
_Databases
_Dictionaries of English. Also see Acronyms and Jargon
_Directories E-mail _addresses, _phone numbers, etc.
_Domain names (root level names and meanings; i.e. _Country Codes); see in Internet
_Education Linux in schools, learning games, etc.
_E-Magazines related to Linux, Unix, and other Information Technologies
_Emulators; _Emulation _Calculators; _DOS; _DOSEMU; _Virtual Consoles/Terminals; _Windows; _WINE
_FAX and _FAXing
_Files:

Misc. Undeletion; locate; _PDF; etc.
_Configuration Files Crude descriptions.
_core Files
File _Compression ZIP; GZIP; BZIP2; LZO.
File _Conversion Also see "Word Processors"; most do some file conversion.
_File Formats _ELF; Graphical files; common filename extensions.
_File Locks; File _Locking
_File managers; file managment

_Filesystems _AFFS; _DEVFS; _Ext2; _FAT; _FAT32; _HFS; _HPFS; _Joliet; _NCPFS; _NTFS; _ppdd; _SMBFS; _VFAT; etc.
_Forums, _BBSs, and WWW _Bulletin Boards Also see "Mailing Lists" and "Newsgroups".
_Games _Playstation
_Government _Agencies, _Commissions, etc:
_Graphics (Also see "Hardware/Video", "Editors/Viewers"):

Misc

_CAD/_CAE - Computer-Aided Design/Engineering Also see "CASE" for SW Engr.
_Diagramming And other line drawings; not artistic drawing. Support for UML, OMT, _Flowcharting.
_Fonts
_GIS - Graphical Information Systems
_GUIs _CDE; _Desktop Environments; Also see X.
_Video _MPEG, _Multimedia; _Television; _TV
_X, X11, X Window System _Wallpaper; Also see GUIs.

_Hardware, general subject:

Misc Hardware Info. guides, reviews, _upgrade info, etc.
_Building or _Assembling a Computer
_Compatibility
_Cooling of electronics.
Linux Allocated Devices (about /dev/*) local copy web copy - plain ASCII listing of all the nodes in /dev/ with major minor #'s
_Device _Drivers Also see Kernel, Kernel Modules, and specific hardware devices.
_EDA - Electronic Design Automation And _VHDL.
_IRQs - Interrupt Requests
_PnP; Plug-n-Play; Plug-n-Pray
_Silencing, _Quieting

_Hardware, specific devices:

this

_Appliances, _HiFi, Lights, etc. Control of same.
_Bar Code Readers, Reading
_BIOSes
_Buses and other _Interfaces:

_I2O Special Interest Group New standard for peripheral interfaces.
_ISA and _EISA
_Parallel Ports And _Game Ports. Also see specific parallel port devices.
_PCI
_SCSI (controllers, general subject)
Standard _Serial Interfaces:

Serial Ports Usage, drivers, programming, etc.
Serial Port Cards and associated software.

_USB - Universal Serial Bus

_Cables, _Cabling, and _Wiring and _Fibre Optics; _Fiber Optics
_Cameras
_Cases, _Chassises and Racks for computers AT; _ATX.
_CDROM drives Writers; Controllers; _DVD; Players.
_Cell Phones, _Cellular Phones
_CPUs; Computer _Architectures _6x86 _Alpha _AMD _ARM _Cyrix _DEC _Hitachi _Intel _K5 _K6 _M2 _m68k _Macintosh, _MMX _Next _PowerPC _PPC _Sparc _x86
_Disk Drives _Floppy; _Hard; _IDE; _EIDE; _ATAPI; _Ultra-DMA; _UDMA; SCSI; _RAID.
_Displays _CRTs; _DPMS; _Eyeglass displays; _LCDs; _Monitors; _Visors.
_Fans
_GPS - Global Positioning System
_Heatsinks
_IR - InfraRed Remote Control and other data transfer.
_Memory _RAM; _ROM; _EPROM; _ECC; _RAM DISK; _Swapping _ramdisk.
Remote _Microscope Software (view via an internet)
_Modems _answering machine; _cable; phone; _ISDN; _ADSL; _xDSL; _voice-mail.
_Motherboards
_Optical Disk HOWTO How to use optical disk drives with Linux.
_Pagers; _Paging; Wireless _Messaging; _SMS
_Pointing Devices _Joysticks; _Mice; _Mouses; _Pens; _Tablets; _Touch Pads; _Touch Screens; _Trackballs.
_Portable Computing _Calculators; _Laptops; _Notebooks; _Handhelds; HP _OmniBook; _Palm _Pilots; _PCMCIA; _PC Cards _apm. Also see "Ports of Linux".
_Printers (and _Printing)
_Radio Commercial and HAM; _Satellite receivers; _Wireless LAN.
_Routers
_Scanners and _Scanning
Misc. _Sensors _Thermometers, _Environmental sensors, _Acceleration/_Vibration/_Tilt.
_Sound _Audio; Sound Cards; _DSP; Digital Signal Processors & Processing; _MIDI; _Music; _MP3.
_Tape drives
_Terminals; _Consoles; (HW) & _VGA; _SVGA; Also see "Emulation".
_Thin Clients _X-terminals; _X terminals; _Network Computers; Network Computing.
_UPS - Uninterruptable Power Supplies Also see Power
_Video hardware _3Dfx; Video Cards; Graphics _Accelerators. Also see "Graphics/Video".
_Watchdog Timer watchdog.txt - how to auto-reboot Linux if it has "fallen and can't get up".
_Zip Drive and _Jazz Drive

_High-Availability, _Ruggedized, _Reliability, _Reliable
_High-Performance Computing _SMP; _Supercomputing; _Supercomputers; _Parallel Processing; _Distributed Computing; _Clusters.
_History of Computing
_Humor
_Icons and logos and other "pics" and "graphics".
_Internationalization non-English, _foreign languages, _translations, _unicode, _Chinese, _Cyrillic, _Danish, _Finnish, _French, _German, _Hebrew, _Italian, _Japanese, _Polish, _Slovenian, _Spanish, _Thai.
_Jargon
_Java
_Keys and _Keyboards
_Law, _Legal stuff:

Miscellaneous Law Including generic "_Intellectual Property"/"_IP" law.
Software _Licencing, Software _Licences, Software Copyrights
_Copyright Law
_Trademarks and _Service Marks
_Patents See the examples - very scary.

_Linux-specific topics (selected topics, grouped so they're less likely overlooked):

_Applications and other _Software Searchers, SW sites, etc.
_Booting _Boot Disks, _Startup, System _init, _XDM
_Boot loaders _LILO, _MILO, _SILO, _System Commander, _Power Boot
_Computers with Linux Installed (_VARs of Linux Systems):

Gary's list Search linked page for "computer".
List at MyVillage Fairly long list.
List at linux.org

_Corporations and _Companies Lists of Linux supporters and others.
_Documentation, General including man pages, _HOWTOs, _mini-HOWTOs, and _FAQs.
Linux Distributions of the OS and applications. _Debian; _Red Hat; _Slackware; _SuSE; non-x86 ports; _floppy based Linux; etc.
_Employment Linux specific _jobs.
Hall of Fame Linux-friendly entities.
Hall of Shame Linux-unfriendly entities.
Improving Linux And how you can help.
_Installing Linux
_Kernel and Kernel _Modules; _kerneld program.
_Learning Linux _Help, _New Users; _Newbies; Support; _Training; _Courses;
Linux Counter _Counter of Linux users who register there.
_Magazines Lists for Linux, Unix, and other Information Technologies.
_Merchandise Linux distributions, books, CDs, stickers, mugs, etc.
_Organizations
_Partitioning hard drives _cfdisk; _fdisk; _fips; _Partition Magic.
_People Some of the people important to Linux.
_Ports of Linux to various computing hardware.
_Projects
_Promotion of Linux, open-source, freeware, etc. _Advocacy; free web space; etc.
_Rescue systems and Rescue disks; _Emergency disks.
_Specifications, & _Limits (very incomplete)
_Support, _Consultants, _Consulting
User Management Linux is a mulit-user operationg system, here is information about users and passwords.
_System Administration

_Tips
_User Groups
Web Sites of Unknown or No Specialty (other than Linux)

_Manual pages (_man pages)
_Markup Languages _HTML; _SGML; _XML.
_Mathematics Software _Laboratory SW; _Spreadsheets; _FFT.
_Microsoft and M$ software And "living with the Monster" resources.
_Miscellaneous And stuff not yet categorized.

_Newsgroups _Usenet; _Newsreaders; &News Servers.
_Networking _ARP; _Arcnet; _AX25; _DHCP; _DNS; _NIS; _Proxy Servers; _UUCP; _YP.

Also see LDP's Network Administrator's Guide at LDP.
Connectivity other than TCP/IP:

_ATM on Linux
_DECnet for Linux "A project to provide DECnet phase IV connectivity for Linux".
_Mainframes and Mainframe Connectivity _IBM; _SNA.

_Diskless Computers
_Headless Computers
_Ethernet _Bridges; Network Adapters; _NICs; Network Interface Cards; also see "Cabling".
_File Servers
_Firewalls, _Firewalling
_Firewire
_Frame Relay
_FTP - File Transfer Protocol
_Internet _Apache; _CGI; _e-commerce; _HTTP; _intranets; _irc; _privacy; _shopping cart; _spam; _thin servers; _web; _Web Browsers; _web servers; _WWW.
_Interoperability: See specific alternative OSes.
_IP - Internet Protocol _IPv6; _TCP/IP; Firewalls; Firewalling; _IPX; _Masquerading; _NAT; other IP _translation; _Port Forwarding; _PLIP; _PPP; _PPTP; _SLIP; _aliasing; _dynamic addresses; _inetd.
_ISP (Internet Service Provider) topics Internet _Cafes; _Kiosks
_ISPs Free and very cheap ISPs for your Linux or other project.
_LDAP
_Load balancing
_Mail & _Mailing Lists _email; _e-mail; _procmail; _sendmail
_Peripherals: See specific device or interface.
_Remote operations Using X11, etc.
_Routing
_Samba; _SMB
IP _Subnetworking mini-HOWTO Why and how to subnetwork an IP network.
_Token Rings
Virtual Services HOWTO How to set up virtual hosting services.
_VPN - Virtual Private Networking Also see "PPTP".

_Neural Networks, Neural Networking
_OCR - Optical Character Recognition
_Operating Systems _OSes other than Linux: _Apple/_Mac; _BSD; _Netware; _QNX; _Unix; others.
Information Managment _PIM (_Personal Information Managers/Management), _Calendar SW, _Scheduling SW, non-software _Production Scheduling and Management
_Power Control _APC; _Battery power; _DPMS; UPS.
_Presentation Tools
_Process controls; _SCADA; _Industrial _Controls; _Automation; _DCS; _PCS; _PLC
_Real-time, _embedded systems, _single-board computers (_SBCs):
_Scientific Software _Plotting SW, Data _Visualization SW.
Seattle and Puget Sound area page Stuff of local interest.
_Security _PAM (_Plugable Authentication Modules); _Kerberos; _Passwords; _Shadow Passwords; _Viruses.
_Shells and shell commands; _bash; _bourne; _sh; _Korn; _ksh; _tksh; _ssh.
_Shutdown
_Simulation Software
_Software Development:

_Debugging _Bug tracking; SW _Testing
GUI SW
_IDEs - Integrated Development Environments and _Project Managers.
_Languages _Ada; _assembler; _assembly; _Awk; _C; _C++; _Dylan; _Eiffel; _FORTRAN; _Guile; Java; _Objective C; _Perl; _Postscript (& _Ghostscript, _Ghostview); _Scheme; _Oberon.
_Object-Oriented, _Object-Orientation _UML
_Packaging _RPM; _DEB; _tar
_Programming, misc
_Quality Control, _Revision Control, _Configuration Control _Quality Assurance; _QC; _QA; _RCS; _CVS; _Configuration Management.

_Standardization & _Standards Character sets; _FHS; _FSSTND; Linux; _RFCs; and others and links to other lists.
_Telecommunications, _Telephony
_Threads, Threading
_Time and Dates Formats, Notation, etc.; _date
_Troubleshooting
_Tutorials Also see specific subjects.
_Tux The Linux _Penguin _Mascot/Logo.
_Unit _Conversions: Entisoft Units Measurement Conversion Calculator
_Upgrade; see in Linux Distributions, "Installing Linux"
_User Groups
_Word Processing Word Processors, Programming _Editors, _Page Layout, _Desktop Publishing _Office suites; _Emacs; _TeX; _vi; _Viewers; _Readers; Postscript; Ghostscript; Ghostview; _Spelling;
_XML System XML, SGML
Also see _Markup Languages, "Presentation Tools" and "File conversion".
_Y2K, _Year _2000 Problem

SuperLinux Encyclopedia

Hosted by developer.Berlios.de

This site exists to allow the rapid finding of documentation and other information of interest to Linux users. It has more than 4000 links to external pages in 150 major categories and some local content.

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