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<h1 id="glossary">Glossary</h1>
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<li>Linux: An open-source family of operating systems
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<li>Linux distro (distribution): One of the operating systems in
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the Linux family (i.e. using the Linux kernel)</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>OCI: Open Container Initiative; a project for open-source
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standardization of containers</li>
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<li>Containers: An isolated environment to run programs, great
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for avoiding conflicting dependencies and for ease-of-use</li>
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<li>Container image: The base filesystem of a container
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<li>OCI image: The OCI's standard for container images, used by
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essentially all Linux container platforms</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>AUR: Arch User Repository, a repository for Arch Linux
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packages which are maintained by users. AUR only hosts
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computer-readable instructions and related files (via
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<code>PKGBUILD</code> files) for creating the packages, not the
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packages or programs themselves</li>
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<li>Filesystem: The system which keeps track of how data is
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written to disk, like NTFS, FAT32, or ext4. Some filesystems,
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like ZFS or btrfs, have extra features like redundancy or
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compression.</li>
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<li>Git: The most common version control system by far - keeps
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track of different versions of files, can be used to resolve
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conflicting changes, etc.
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<li>Forking: Copying a Git repository and optionally and making
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changes to it. Can be simply to contribute the changes back to
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the upstream project later, or to use something as a base for
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your own project.</li>
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<li>Branches: Different "chains" of versions of code, which can,
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well, branch apart, merge back together, and so on. Different
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branches don't necessarily have to be related whatsoever, but
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they usually are made from other branches.</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Repository: Usually refers to either a Git repository (i.e.
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a Git project), or a server hosting packages to be installed by
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a package manager.</li>
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<li>GUI toolkit: A set of programs used for making graphical
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interfaces
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<li>Qt: A GUI toolkit with an appearance similar to normal
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Windows interfaces; pronounced "cute"</li>
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<li>GTK: A more (literally) rounded GUI toolkit, hated by some
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for its programs usually having highly excessive whitespace and
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poor design (though there are some exceptions)</li>
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<li>Window manager: The program which keeps track of and
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determines where each program's window(s) go.</li>
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<li>Desktop Environment: A window manager, programs, and
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configurations, all wrapped up into a bundle, providing a
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comprehensive desktop.
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<li>GNOME: A popular GTK-based extensible desktop
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environment.</li>
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<li>Virtual machine: A virtual computer.</li>
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<li>Partition: A part of a disk. For example, modern computers
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have a small boot partition and a big partition holding all the
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actual data.</li>
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<li>GParted: GNOME's partition manager - and my favorite
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partition manager.</li>
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<li><code>sudo</code>: Super user do; runs a command as
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<code>root</code>, Linux's admin account.</li>
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<li>Tarball: An archive of data, preserving its file and
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directory structure. Not compressed, though its tools come with
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options to compress it after generation.</li>
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<li><code>apt</code>: The package manager for Debian-based Linux
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distros.</li>
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<li>blendOS: "Arch Linux, made declarative, immutable and
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atomic."
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<li>Akshara: blendOS's system rebuilder/updater</li>
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<li><code>pacman</code>: Arch Linux's package manager, also used
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by blendOS</li>
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<li><code>PKGBUILD</code>: A file defining how to build a
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package which can be install by <code>pacman</code>.</li>
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<li><code>iso</code> file: A disk image file, can be "burned" to
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a USB flash drive (or any other disk) and booted off of, often
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used for Linux installers and/or live images.</li>
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<li>FUSE: A filesystem interface used for running filesystems in
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userspace (i.e. not in the kernel)</li>
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<li>Kernel: The very core of an operating system, with all its
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most essential functions, like filesystems (aside from those
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using FUSE). On Linux, device drivers are usually in the kernel
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directly, rather than being installed separately like on
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Windows.</li>
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<li>Shell: The program which <em>is</em> the command-line
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interface.</li>
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