This chapter is intended to explain the various words which have been used throughout the &krusader; documentation. If you feel any acronyms or terms are missing here, please don't hesitate to contact the &krusader; documentation team. Thank you!

NOTE: This page is work in progress, Matej Urbancic is working at the Glossary.

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B

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BSD

  Berkeley Software Distribution; here refers to any of several free &UNIX;-compatible operating systems derived from BSD &UNIX;.

CVS

  Concurrent Versions System; a software configuration management system used by many software projects including &kde; and &krusader;.

DEB

  This is a binary file format that is used by &debian; and &debian;-based distributions. This will be the suffix of a file specifically for these distributions. An example would be `krusader_1.70.1-1_amd64.deb` For more information on installing these files, refer to the Debian Web Site.

&FTP;

  &FTP; is the File Transfer Protocol; it is an Internet protocol that allows you to retrieve files from so-called &FTP; servers.

GPL

  GNU General Public License; a software license created by the Free Software Foundation defining the terms for releasing free software.

&GUI;

  Graphical User Interface

H

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&kde;

  K Desktop Environment; a project to develop a free graphical desktop environment for &UNIX; compatible systems.

RPM

  This is the binary file format for distributions based on the Red Hat package manager, 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. They are very easy to use.

&URL;

  &URL; is an abbreviation for Universal Resource Locater. A universal resource locater is the technical term for what is commonly referred to as a websites address. Examples of URLs include http://krusader.sourceforge.net and &remote_connections_lnk;.

S

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Y

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Z

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