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terminal
Formerly, the designation of a keyboard and monitor combination connected to a central computer. On workstations, this term is also used for
programs that emulate a real terminal.
Tux
Name of the Linux penguin (see http://www.sjbaker.org/tux/).
UNIX
UNIX is an operating system that is widely distributed, above all on
workstations in networks. Since the beginning of the 1990s, there has been
a freely available version for PCs: Linux.
URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
Unique Internet address that contains the type (e.g., http://) and the
name of the host (e.g., www.suse.de).
user account
See ☞access permissions.
user directory
See ☞home directory.
VESA (Video Electronics Standard Association)
Industrial consortium that defines, among other things, important video
standards.
wild cards
Placeholder for one (symbol: ‘?’) or more (symbol: ‘*’) unknown characters, most often used in commands (especially search commands).
window manager
A window manager is the layer that interacts between the ☞X Window
System and the user. It is responsible, among other things, for your desktop display. There is a wide variety of window managers available, one of
the more popular ones being kwm for ☞KDE.
WWW (World Wide Web)
Based on the ☞HTTP protocol, this is a hyperlinked collection of documents, files, and images that can be viewed with a web browser.
X Window System
The X Window System is the standard for graphical interfaces in Linux. It
is simply the middle layer between the hardware and the ☞window manager, such as KDE or GNOME.
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