- Industry: Software
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Red Hat is a provider of enterprise Linux and other open source software.
Standard for unique and internationalized character encoding; allows for plain text files and other data to be represented in several languages and dialects.
Industry:Software
Standard governed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for the file structure of compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM).
Industry:Software
TCP/IP based private network in which authorized members of an organization can access resources.
Industry:Software
The location of a file on a file system; describes where the file resides in a directory structure. An absolute path is the direct location of a file in the directory structure, starting at the root directory.
A relative path is the location of a file relative to the current working directory.
Industry:Software
The name of the program and associated technology used to create rules controlling network access to and from a particular machine or network. Used to configure firewall rules in the Linux kernel. Ipchains has been superceded by iptables in the 2.4 kernel.
Industry:Software
The next-generation line printer daemon that adds features and printer filters over the legacy lpr.
Industry:Software
The protocol used to route a data packet from its source to its destination via the Internet.
Industry:Software
UNIX-compatible operating system (and kernel) designed with free software tools and ported to several hardware architectures. Linux was initially developed by Linus Torvalds in 1991.
Linux is open source software (OSS) and aims to be a viable alternative to competing proprietary operating systems.
Industry:Software
1. A connector that attaches a conduit (such as a phone line or Ethernet cable) to a PCMCIA card.
2. A hardware attachment that authorizes a computer system to run a particular application.
Industry:Software
