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Access control list
An access control list (ACL), with respect to a computer file system, is a list of permissions attached to an object.
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Ada (programming language)
Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, and object-oriented high-level computer programming language, extended from Pascal and other languages.
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Almquist shell
Almquist shell (also known as A Shell, ash and sh) is a lightweight Unix shell originally written by Kenneth Almquist in the late 1980s.
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Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server, colloquially called Apache, is a free and open-source cross-platform web server, released under the terms of Apache License 2.0.
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Apache Subversion
Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name svn) is a software versioning and revision control system distributed as open source under the Apache License.
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Application programming interface
In computer programming, an application programming interface (API) is a set of subroutine definitions, protocols, and tools for building software.
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ATTRIB
ATTRIB is a command, in DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows that allows the user to change various characteristics, or "attributes" of a file or directory.
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Autoconf
GNU Autoconf is a tool for producing configure scripts for building, installing and packaging software on computer systems where a Bourne shell is available.
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AWK
AWK is a programming language designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool.
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Bash (Unix shell)
Bash is a Unix shell and command language written by Brian Fox for the GNU Project as a free software replacement for the Bourne shell.
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Berkeley Software Distribution
Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) was a Unix operating system derivative developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) of the University of California, Berkeley, from 1977 to 1995.
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BIND
BIND, or named, is the most widely used Domain Name System (DNS) software on the Internet.
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Bootstrapping (compilers)
In computer science, bootstrapping is the technique for producing a self-compiling compiler — that is, compiler (or assembler) written in the source programming language that it intends to compile.
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Bourne shell
The Bourne shell (sh) is a shell, or command-line interpreter, for computer operating systems.
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Bzip2
bzip2 is a free and open-source file compression program that uses the Burrows–Wheeler algorithm.
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C (programming language)
C (as in the letter ''c'') is a general-purpose, imperative computer programming language, supporting structured programming, lexical variable scope and recursion, while a static type system prevents many unintended operations.
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C standard library
The C standard library or libc is the standard library for the C programming language, as specified in the ANSI C standard.
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C++
C++ ("see plus plus") is a general-purpose programming language.
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Character encoding
Character encoding is used to represent a repertoire of characters by some kind of encoding system.
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CLISP
In computing, CLISP is an implementation of the programming language Common Lisp originally developed by Bruno Haible and Michael Stoll for the Atari ST.
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COFF
The Common Object File Format (COFF) is a format for executable, object code, and shared library computer files used on Unix systems.
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Command-line interface
A command-line interface or command language interpreter (CLI), also known as command-line user interface, console user interface and character user interface (CUI), is a means of interacting with a computer program where the user (or client) issues commands to the program in the form of successive lines of text (command lines).
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Compatibility layer
In software engineering, a compatibility layer is an interface that allows binaries for a legacy or foreign system to run on a host system.
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Concurrent Versions System
The Concurrent Versions System (CVS), also known as the Concurrent Versioning System, is a free client-server revision control system in the field of software development.
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Cooperative Linux
Cooperative Linux, abbreviated as coLinux, is software which allows Microsoft Windows and the Linux kernel to run simultaneously in parallel on the same machine.
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Cooperative multitasking
Cooperative multitasking, also known as non-preemptive multitasking, is a style of computer multitasking in which the operating system never initiates a context switch from a running process to another process.
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Copy-on-write
Copy-on-write (CoW or COW), sometimes referred to as implicit sharing or shadowing, is a resource-management technique used in computer programming to efficiently implement a "duplicate" or "copy" operation on modifiable resources.
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Coroutine
Coroutines are computer-program components that generalize subroutines for non-preemptive multitasking, by allowing multiple entry points for suspending and resuming execution at certain locations.
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Cross compiler
A cross compiler is a compiler capable of creating executable code for a platform other than the one on which the compiler is running.
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Cygnus Solutions
Cygnus Solutions, originally Cygnus Support, was founded in 1989 by John Gilmore, Michael Tiemann and David Henkel-Wallace to provide commercial support for free software.
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Cygwin/X
Cygwin/X is an implementation of the X Window System that runs under Microsoft Windows.
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Device file
In Unix-like operating systems, a device file or special file is an interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary file.
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Device independent file format
The device independent file format (DVI) is the output file format of the TeX typesetting program, designed by David R. Fuchs and implemented by Donald E. Knuth in 1982.
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Diff
In computing, the diff utility is a data comparison tool that calculates and displays the differences between two files.
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DJGPP
DJ's GNU Programming Platform (DJGPP) is a software development suite for Intel 80386-level and above, IBM PC compatibles which supports DOS operating systems.
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Doxygen
Doxygen is a documentation generator, a tool for writing software reference documentation.
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Drive letter assignment
In computer data storage, drive letter assignment is the process of assigning alphabetical identifiers to volumes.
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Dynamic-link library
Dynamic-link library (or DLL) is Microsoft's implementation of the shared library concept in the Microsoft Windows and OS/2 operating systems.
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Emacs
Emacs is a family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility.
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Exim
Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA) used on Unix-like operating systems.
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File descriptor
In Unix and related computer operating systems, a file descriptor (FD, less frequently fildes) is an abstract indicator (handle) used to access a file or other input/output resource, such as a pipe or network socket.
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File Explorer
File Explorer, previously known as Windows Explorer, is a file manager application that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 95 onwards.
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File Transfer Protocol
The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used for the transfer of computer files between a client and server on a computer network.
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Flex (lexical analyser generator)
Flex (fast lexical analyzer generator) is a free and open-source software alternative to lex.
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Fork (system call)
In computing, particularly in the context of the Unix operating system and its workalikes, fork is an operation whereby a process creates a copy of itself.
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Fork–exec
Fork–exec is a commonly used technique in Unix whereby an executing process spawns a new program.
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Fortran
Fortran (formerly FORTRAN, derived from Formula Translation) is a general-purpose, compiled imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.
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Free and open-source software
Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that can be classified as both free software and open-source software.
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Friendly interactive shell
The friendly interactive shell (fish) is a Unix shell that attempts to be more interactive and user-friendly than those with a longer history (i.e. most other Unix shells) or those formulated as function-compatible replacements for the aforementioned (e.g. zsh, the Falstad shell).
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Fstab
The fstab (or file systems table) file is a system configuration file commonly found at /etc/fstab on Unix and Unix-like computer systems.
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Gambas
Gambas is the name of an object-oriented dialect of the BASIC programming language, as well as the integrated development environment that accompanies it.
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Gecos field
The gecos field, or GECOS field is an entry in the /etc/passwd file on Unix, and similar operating systems.
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Ghostscript
Ghostscript is a suite of software based on an interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages.
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Git
Git is a version control system for tracking changes in computer files and coordinating work on those files among multiple people.
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GNOME
GNOME is a desktop environment composed of free and open-source software that runs on Linux and most BSD derivatives.
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GNU
GNU is an operating system and an extensive collection of computer software.
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GNU bison
GNU bison, commonly known as Bison, is a parser generator that is part of the GNU Project.
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GNU Build System
The GNU Build System, also known as the Autotools, is a suite of programming tools designed to assist in making source code packages portable to many Unix-like systems.
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GNU Compiler Collection
The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is a compiler system produced by the GNU Project supporting various programming languages.
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GNU Core Utilities
The GNU Core Utilities or coreutils is a package of GNU software containing reimplementations for many of the basic tools, such as cat, ls, and rm, which are used on Unix-like operating systems.
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GNU Debugger
The GNU Debugger (GDB) is a portable debugger that runs on many Unix-like systems and works for many programming languages, including Ada, C, C++, Objective-C, Free Pascal, Fortran, Go, Java and partially others.
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GNU Find Utilities
The GNU Find Utilities or findutils is a GNU package which offers basic file searching utilities to search the systems directories of GNU and Unix based computers.
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GNU Lesser General Public License
The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
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GNU nano
GNU nano is a text editor for Unix-like computing systems or operating environments using a command line interface.
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GNU Screen
GNU Screen is a terminal multiplexer, a software application that can be used to multiplex several virtual consoles, allowing a user to access multiple separate login sessions inside a single terminal window, or detach and reattach sessions from a terminal.
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GnuWin32
The GnuWin32 project provides native ports in the form of runnable computer programs, patches, and source code for various GNU and open source tools and software, much of it modified to run on the 32-bit Windows platform.
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Graphical user interface
The graphical user interface (GUI), is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation, instead of text-based user interfaces, typed command labels or text navigation.
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Grep
grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines that match a regular expression.
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Groff (software)
Groff (pronounced "gee-roff") (also called GNU troff) is a typesetting system that creates formatted output when given plain text mixed with formatting commands.
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GTK+
GTK+ (formerly GIMP Toolkit) is a cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.
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Gzip
gzip is a file format and a software application used for file compression and decompression.
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Hamilton C shell
Hamilton C shell is a clone of the Unix C shell and utilities Early for Microsoft Windows created by Nicole Hamilton at Hamilton Laboratories as a completely original work, not based on any prior code.
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Hardware virtualization
Hardware virtualization is the virtualization of computers as complete hardware platforms, certain logical abstractions of their componentry, or only the functionality required to run various operating systems.
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Hiawatha (web server)
Hiawatha is a web server available for multiple platforms.
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Include directive
Many programming languages and other computer files have a directive, often called include (as well as copy and import), that causes the contents of a second file to be inserted into the original file.
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Inetd
inetd (internet service daemon) is a super-server daemon on many Unix systems that provides Internet services.
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Irssi
Irssi () is an IRC client program for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Microsoft Windows.
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Java (programming language)
Java is a general-purpose computer-programming language that is concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, and specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.
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Joe's Own Editor
JOE or Joe's Own Editor is a ncurses-based text editor for Unix systems, available under the GPL.
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K Desktop Environment 3
K Desktop Environment 3 is the third series of releases of the K Desktop Environment (after that called KDE Software Compilation).
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KornShell
KornShell (ksh) is a Unix shell which was developed by David Korn at Bell Labs in the early 1980s and announced at USENIX on July 14, 1983.
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Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm
The Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm (LZMA) is an algorithm used to perform lossless data compression.
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Lex (software)
Lex is a computer program that generates lexical analyzers ("scanners" or "lexers").
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LibreOffice
LibreOffice is a free and open source office suite, a project of The Document Foundation.
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Lighttpd
lighttpd (pronounced "lighty") is an open-source web server optimized for speed-critical environments while remaining standards-compliant, secure and flexible.
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Linux
Linux is a family of free and open-source software operating systems built around the Linux kernel.
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Locale (computer software)
In computing, a locale is a set of parameters that defines the user's language, region and any special variant preferences that the user wants to see in their user interface.
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Look and feel
In software design, look and feel is a term used in respect of a graphical user interface and comprises aspects of its design, including elements such as colors, shapes, layout, and typefaces (the "look"), as well as the behavior of dynamic elements such as buttons, boxes, and menus (the "feel").
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Lynx (web browser)
Lynx is a customizable text-based web browser for use on cursor-addressable character cell terminals.
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LyX
LyX (styled as \mathbf\!_\mathbf\!\mathbf; pronounced) is an open source document processor based on top of the LaTeX typesetting system.
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Make (software)
In software development, Make is a build automation tool that automatically builds executable programs and libraries from source code by reading files called Makefiles which specify how to derive the target program.
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Mercurial
Mercurial is a distributed revision-control tool for software developers.
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Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation (abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington.
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Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.
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Mined (text editor)
MinEd (pronounced min-ed) is a terminal-based text editor providing extensive Unicode and CJK support, available under the GPL.
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MinGW
MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows), formerly mingw32, is a free and open source software development environment for creating Microsoft Windows applications.
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Mintty
mintty is a free and open source terminal emulator for Cygwin, the Unix-like environment for Windows.
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MIPS architecture
MIPS (an acronym for Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA)Price, Charles (September 1995).
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MKS Toolkit
MKS Toolkit is a software package produced and maintained by that provides a Unix-like environment for scripting, connectivity and porting Unix and Linux software to both 32- and 64-bit Microsoft Windows systems.
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Mount (computing)
Mounting is a process by which the operating system makes files and directories on a storage device (such as hard drive, CD-ROM, or network share) available for user to access via the computer's file system.
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Mutt (email client)
Mutt is a text-based email client for Unix-like systems.
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MySQL
MySQL ("My S-Q-L") is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS).
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NetApp
NetApp, Inc. is a hybrid cloud data services company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
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Newlib
Newlib is a C standard library implementation intended for use on embedded systems.
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Newline
Newline (frequently called line ending, end of line (EOL), line feed, or line break) is a control character or sequence of control characters in a character encoding specification, e.g. ASCII or EBCDIC.
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NTFS junction point
An NTFS junction point is a symbolic link to a directory that acts as an alias of that directory.
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NTFS symbolic link
An NTFS symbolic link (symlink) is a filesystem object in the NTFS filesystem that points to another filesystem object.
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Object file
An object file is a file containing object code, meaning relocatable format machine code that is usually not directly executable.
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Objective-C
Objective-C is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language.
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OCaml
OCaml, originally named Objective Caml, is the main implementation of the programming language Caml, created by Xavier Leroy, Jérôme Vouillon, Damien Doligez, Didier Rémy, Ascánder Suárez and others in 1996.
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OpenOffice.org
OpenOffice.org (OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, is a discontinued open-source office suite.
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OpenSSH
OpenSSH (also known as OpenBSD Secure Shell) is a suite of security-related network-level utilities based on the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol, which help to secure network communications via the encryption of network traffic over multiple authentication methods and by providing secure tunneling capabilities.
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Operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs.
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Patch (Unix)
The computer tool patch is a Unix program that updates text files according to instructions contained in a separate file, called a patch file.
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Perl
Perl is a family of two high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages, Perl 5 and Perl 6.
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PHP
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (or simply PHP) is a server-side scripting language designed for Web development, but also used as a general-purpose programming language.
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Porting
In software engineering, porting is the process of adapting software for the purpose of achieving some form of execution in a computing environment that is different from the one that a given program (meant for such execution) was originally designed for (e.g. different CPU, operating system, or third party library).
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POSIX
The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating systems.
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PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) with an emphasis on extensibility and standards compliance.
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Process.h
process.h is a C header file which contains function declarations and macros used in working with threads and processes.
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Procfs
The proc filesystem (procfs) is a special filesystem in Unix-like operating systems that presents information about processes and other system information in a hierarchical file-like structure, providing a more convenient and standardized method for dynamically accessing process data held in the kernel than traditional tracing methods or direct access to kernel memory.
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Programming tool
A programming tool or software development tool is a computer program that software developers use to create, debug, maintain, or otherwise support other programs and applications.
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Prolog
Prolog is a general-purpose logic programming language associated with artificial intelligence and computational linguistics.
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Proprietary software
Proprietary software is non-free computer software for which the software's publisher or another person retains intellectual property rights—usually copyright of the source code, but sometimes patent rights.
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Pseudoterminal
In some operating systems, including Unix, a pseudoterminal, pseudotty, or PTY is a pair of pseudo-devices, one of which, the slave, emulates a real text terminal device, the other of which, the master, provides the means by which a terminal emulator process controls the slave.
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Pure-FTPd
Pure-FTPd is a free (BSD license) FTP Server with a strong focus on software security.
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Python (programming language)
Python is an interpreted high-level programming language for general-purpose programming.
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Qt (software)
Qt ("cute") is a cross-platform application framework and widget toolkit for creating classic and embedded graphical user interfaces, and applications that run on various software and hardware platforms with little or no change in the underlying codebase, while still being a native application with native capabilities and speed.
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Red Hat
Red Hat, Inc. is an American multinational software company providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
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Remote Shell
The remote shell (rsh) is a command line computer program that can execute shell commands as another user, and on another computer across a computer network.
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Rsync
rsync is a utility for efficiently transferring and synchronizing files across computer systems, by checking the timestamp and size of files.
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RTorrent
rTorrent is a text-based ncurses BitTorrent client written in C++, based on the libTorrent libraries for Unix, whose author's goal is "a focus on high performance and good code".
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Ruby (programming language)
Ruby is a dynamic, interpreted, reflective, object-oriented, general-purpose programming language.
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Rxvt
rxvt (acronym for our extended virtual terminal) is a terminal emulator for the X Window System (and, in the form of a Cygwin port, for Windows), originally written by Rob Nation and later extensively modified by Mark Olesen, who took over maintenance for several years.
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Scheme (programming language)
Scheme is a programming language that supports multiple paradigms, including functional programming and imperative programming, and is one of the two main dialects of Lisp.
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Secure copy
Secure copy protocol or SCP is a means of securely transferring computer files between a local host and a remote host or between two remote hosts.
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Secure Shell
Secure Shell (SSH) is a cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network.
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Security Identifier
In the context of the Microsoft Windows NT line of operating systems, a Security Identifier (commonly abbreviated SID) is a unique, immutable identifier of a user, user group, or other security principal.
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Sed
sed (stream editor) is a Unix utility that parses and transforms text, using a simple, compact programming language.
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Shell (computing)
In computing, a shell is a user interface for access to an operating system's services.
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Shell script
A shell script is a computer program designed to be run by the Unix shell, a command-line interpreter.
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Shortcut (computing)
In computing, a file shortcut is a handle in a user interface that allows the user to find a file or resource located in a different directory or folder from the place where the shortcut is located.
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Solaris (operating system)
Solaris is a Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems.
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Spawn (computing)
Spawn in computing refers to a function that loads and executes a new child process.
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Standard streams
In computer programming, standard streams are preconnected input and output communication channels between a computer program and its environment when it begins execution.
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Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems, Inc. was an American company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC.
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Symbolic link
In computing, a symbolic link (also symlink or soft link) is a term for any file that contains a reference to another file or directory in the form of an absolute or relative path and that affects pathname resolution.
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Syslog
In computing, syslog is a standard for message logging.
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Tar (computing)
In computing, tar is a computer software utility for collecting many files into one archive file, often referred to as a tarball, for distribution or backup purposes.
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Tcl
Tcl (pronounced "tickle" or tee cee ell) is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.
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Tcsh
tcsh (“tee-see-shell”, “tee-shell”, or as “tee see ess aitch”) is a Unix shell based on and compatible with the C shell (csh).
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Telnet
Telnet is a protocol used on the Internet or local area network to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communication facility using a virtual terminal connection.
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Terminal emulator
A terminal emulator, terminal application, or term, is a program that emulates a video terminal within some other display architecture.
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TeX
TeX (see below), stylized within the system as TeX, is a typesetting system (or "formatting system") designed and mostly written by Donald Knuth and released in 1978.
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The Open Source Definition
The Open Source Definition is a document published by the Open Source Initiative, to determine whether a software license can be labeled with the open-source certification mark.
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Tin (newsreader)
tin is an open source text-based and threaded news client, used to read and post messages on the USENET global communications network.
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Unicode
Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems.
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Unix
Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, development starting in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.
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Unix-like
A Unix-like (sometimes referred to as UN*X or *nix) operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification.
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UTF-16
UTF-16 (16-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a character encoding capable of encoding all 1,112,064 valid code points of Unicode.
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UTF-8
UTF-8 is a variable width character encoding capable of encoding all 1,112,064 valid code points in Unicode using one to four 8-bit bytes.
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Util-linux
util-linux is a standard package distributed by the Linux Kernel Organization for use as part of the Linux operating system.
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UW IMAP
The UW IMAP server is the reference server implementation of the IMAP protocol, developed at the University of Washington.
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UWIN
UWIN is a computer software package created by David Korn which allows programs written for the operating system Unix to be built and run on Microsoft Windows with few, if any, changes.
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Vim (text editor)
Vim ("Vim is pronounced as one word, like Jim, not vi-ai-em. It's written with a capital, since it's a name, again like Jim." a contraction of Vi IMproved) is a clone, with additions, of Bill Joy's vi text editor program for Unix.
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VirtualBox
Oracle VM VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox, Sun xVM VirtualBox and Innotek VirtualBox) is a free and open-source hypervisor for x86 computers currently being developed by Oracle Corporation.
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Virtualization
In computing, virtualization refers to the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including virtual computer hardware platforms, storage devices, and computer network resources.
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VMware Workstation Player
VMware Workstation Player, formerly VMware Player, is a virtualization software package for x64 computers running Microsoft Windows or Linux, supplied free of charge by VMware, Inc., Archived version; the page as of 2016 is about VMware Workstation Player a company which was formerly a division of, and whose majority shareholder remains EMC Corporation.
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Win32 console
Win32 console is a text user interface implementation within the system of Windows API, which runs console applications.
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Windows API
The Windows API, informally WinAPI, is Microsoft's core set of application programming interfaces (APIs) available in the Microsoft Windows operating systems.
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Windows service
In Windows NT operating systems, a Windows service is a computer program that operates in the background.
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Windows Services for UNIX
Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) is a discontinued software package produced by Microsoft which provided a Unix environment on Windows NT and some of its immediate successor operating-systems.
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Windows Subsystem for Linux
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a compatibility layer for running Linux binary executables (in ELF format) natively on Windows 10.
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Windows XP
Windows XP (codenamed Whistler) is a personal computer operating system that was produced by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems.
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Wine (software)
Wine (recursive backronym for Wine Is Not an Emulator) is a free and open-source compatibility layer that aims to allow computer programs (application software and computer games) developed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems.
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X Window System
The X Window System (X11, or shortened to simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on UNIX-like computer operating systems.
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X86
x86 is a family of backward-compatible instruction set architectures based on the Intel 8086 CPU and its Intel 8088 variant.
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X86-64
x86-64 (also known as x64, x86_64, AMD64 and Intel 64) is the 64-bit version of the x86 instruction set.
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XCB
XCB (X protocol C-language Binding) is a library implementing the client-side of the X11 display server protocol.
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Xlib
Xlib (also known as libX11) is an X Window System protocol client library written in the C programming language.
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Xpdf
Xpdf is a free and open-source PDF viewer for operating systems supported by the Qt toolkit.
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Xterm
In computing, xterm is the standard terminal emulator for the X Window System.
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Yacc
Yacc (Yet Another Compiler-Compiler) is a computer program for the Unix operating system developed by Stephen C. Johnson.
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Z shell
The Z shell (Zsh) is a Unix shell that can be used as an interactive login shell and as a command interpreter for shell scripting.
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Zip (file format)
ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin
