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<h1 id="glossary">Glossary</h1>
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<li>Linux: An open-source family of operating systems
<ul>
<li>Linux distro (distribution): One of the operating systems in
the Linux family (i.e. using the Linux kernel)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>OCI: Open Container Initiative; a project for open-source
standardization of containers</li>
<li>Containers: An isolated environment to run programs, great
for avoiding conflicting dependencies and for ease-of-use</li>
<li>Container image: The base filesystem of a container
<ul>
<li>OCI image: The OCI's standard for container images, used by
essentially all Linux container platforms</li>
</ul></li>
<li>AUR: Arch User Repository, a repository for Arch Linux
packages which are maintained by users. AUR only hosts
computer-readable instructions and related files (via
<code>PKGBUILD</code> files) for creating the packages, not the
packages or programs themselves</li>
<li>Filesystem: The system which keeps track of how data is
written to disk, like NTFS, FAT32, or ext4. Some filesystems,
like ZFS or btrfs, have extra features like redundancy or
compression.<img src="image.png" title="alt text" alt="alt text" /></li>
<li>Git: The most common version control system by far - keeps
track of different versions of files, can be used to resolve
conflicting changes, etc.
<ul>
<li>Forking: Copying a Git repository and adding your own stuff
to it. Can be simply to contribute the changes back to the
upstream project later, or to use something as a base for your
own project.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Repository: Usually refers to either a Git repository (i.e.
a Git project), or a server hosting packages to be installed by
a package manager.</li>
<li>GUI toolkit: A set of programs used for making graphical
interfaces
<ul>
<li>Qt: A GUI toolkit with an appearance similar to normal
Windows interfaces; pronounced "cute"</li>
<li>GTK: A more (literally) rounded GUI toolkit, hated by some
for its programs usually having highly excessive whitespace and
poor design (though there are some exceptions)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Window manager: The program which keeps track of and
determines where each program's window(s) go.</li>
<li>Desktop Environment: A window manager, programs, and
configurations, all wrapped up into a bundle, providing a
comprehensive desktop.
<ul>
<li>GNOME: A popular GTK-based extensible desktop
environment.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Virtual machine: A virtual computer.</li>
<li>Partition: A part of a disk. For example, modern computers
have a small boot partition and a big partition holding all the
actual data.</li>
<li>GParted: GNOME's partition manager - and my favorite
partition manager.</li>
<li><code>sudo</code>: Super user do; runs a command as
<code>root</code>, Linux's admin account.</li>
<li>Tarball: An archive of data, preserving its file and
directory structure. Not compressed, though its tools come with
options to compress it after generation.</li>
<li><code>apt</code>: The package manager for Debian-based Linux
distros.</li>
<li>blendOS: "Arch Linux, made declarative, immutable and
atomic."
<ul>
<li>Akshara: blendOS's system rebuilder</li>
</ul></li>
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