Linux-libre, the Glossary

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1. 65 relations: Alexandre Oliva, Arch Linux, ARM architecture family, Assembly language, Backdoor (computing), Binary blob, BLAG Linux and GNU, C (programming language), Canaima (operating system), Comparison of open-source wireless drivers, Compiler, Debian, Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre, Dyne:bolic, English language, Fedora Linux, Firmware, Free software, Free Software Foundation, Free Software Foundation Latin America, Geeknet, Gentoo Linux, GNU General Public License, GNU Guix System, GNU Hurd, GNU Project, Graphics card, Hardware security bug, Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre, I386, IA-32, IBM Power microprocessors, Kernel (operating system), Libreboot, LibreCMC, LibrePlanet, Linux, Linux kernel, Linux.com, List of computing mascots, Microcode, MIPS architecture, Motorola 68000 series, Musix GNU+Linux, Network interface controller, NixOS, Nvidia, Obfuscation (software), Open-source hardware, OpenSUSE, ... Expand index (15 more) »

2. Linux kernel
3. Operating system kernels

Alexandre Oliva

Alexandre "Alex" Oliva, is a Brazilian free software activist, developer, former vice president of the board of directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and founding member of Free Software Foundation Latin America (FSFLA).

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Arch Linux

Arch Linux is an independently developed x86-64 general-purpose Linux distribution that strives to provide the latest stable versions of most software by following a rolling-release model.

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ARM architecture family

ARM (stylised in lowercase as arm, formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of RISC instruction set architectures (ISAs) for computer processors.

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Assembly language

In computer programming, assembly language (alternatively assembler language or symbolic machine code), often referred to simply as assembly and commonly abbreviated as ASM or asm, is any low-level programming language with a very strong correspondence between the instructions in the language and the architecture's machine code instructions.

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Backdoor (computing)

A backdoor is a typically covert method of bypassing normal authentication or encryption in a computer, product, embedded device (e.g. a home router), or its embodiment (e.g. part of a cryptosystem, algorithm, chipset, or even a "homunculus computer"—a tiny computer-within-a-computer such as that found in Intel's AMT technology).

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Binary blob

In the context of free and open-source software, proprietary software only available as a binary executable is referred to as a blob or binary blob.

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BLAG Linux and GNU

BLAG Linux and GNU is a discontinued Linux distribution that was made by the Brixton Linux Action Group.

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C (programming language)

C (pronounced – like the letter c) is a general-purpose programming language.

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Canaima (operating system)

Canaima GNU/Linux is a free and open-source Linux distribution that is based on the architecture of Debian.

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Comparison of open-source wireless drivers

Wireless network cards for computers require control software to make them function (firmware, device drivers).

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Compiler

In computing, a compiler is a computer program that translates computer code written in one programming language (the source language) into another language (the target language).

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Debian

Debian, also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a Linux distribution composed of free and open-source software and optionally non-free firmware or software developed by the community-supported Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993.

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Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre

Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre is an Argentine Linux distribution written from scratch sharing some similarities with Slackware.

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Dyne:bolic

dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is a Live CD/DVD distribution based on the Linux kernel.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Fedora Linux

Fedora Linux is a Linux distribution developed by the Fedora Project.

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Firmware

In computing, firmware is software that provides low-level control of computing device hardware.

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Free software

Free software, libre software, libreware or rarely known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.

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Free Software Foundation

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on October 4, 1985, to support the free software movement, with the organization's preference for software being distributed under copyleft ("share alike") terms, such as with its own GNU General Public License.

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Free Software Foundation Latin America

Free Software Foundation Latin America (FSFLA) is the Latin American sister organisation of the Free Software Foundation.

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Geeknet

Geeknet, Inc. is an American company that is a subsidiary of GameStop based in Fairfax County, Virginia.

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Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux (pronounced) is a Linux distribution built using the Portage package management system.

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GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft, that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software.

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GNU Guix System

GNU Guix System or Guix System (previously known as GuixSD) is a rolling release, free and open source Linux distribution built around the GNU Guix package manager. Linux-libre and GNU Guix System are GNU Project software.

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GNU Hurd

GNU Hurd is a collection of microkernel servers written as part of GNU, for the GNU Mach microkernel. Linux-libre and GNU Hurd are GNU Project software.

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GNU Project

The GNU Project is a free software, mass collaboration project announced by Richard Stallman on September 27, 1983.

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Graphics card

A graphics card (also called a video card, display card, graphics accelerator, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or colloquially GPU) is a computer expansion card that generates a feed of graphics output to a display device such as a monitor.

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Hardware security bug

In digital computing, hardware security bugs are hardware bugs or flaws that create vulnerabilities affecting computer central processing units (CPUs), or other devices which incorporate programmable processors or logic and have direct memory access, which allow data to be read by a rogue process when such reading is not authorized.

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Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre

Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre is an independent Linux distribution for the i686 and x86-64 architectures using the package-manager from Arch Linux and patchsets from the Debian development.

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I386

The Intel 386, originally released as 80386 and later renamed i386, is a 32-bit microprocessor designed by Intel.

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IA-32

IA-32 (short for "Intel Architecture, 32-bit", commonly called i386) is the 32-bit version of the x86 instruction set architecture, designed by Intel and first implemented in the 80386 microprocessor in 1985.

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IBM Power microprocessors

IBM Power microprocessors (originally POWER prior to Power10) are designed and sold by IBM for servers and supercomputers.

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Kernel (operating system)

The kernel is a computer program at the core of a computer's operating system and generally has complete control over everything in the system. Linux-libre and kernel (operating system) are operating system kernels.

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Libreboot

Libreboot (briefly known as GNU Libreboot) is a free software project based on coreboot, aimed at replacing some of the proprietary BIOS firmware contained in some computers, though does require certain vendor code on some platforms as that code may not have been replaced with libre software.

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LibreCMC

LibreCMC is a Linux-libre distribution for computers with minimal resources, such as the Ben NanoNote, ath9k-based Wi-Fi routers, and other hardware with emphasis on free software.

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LibrePlanet

LibrePlanet (literally, "Free Planet") is a community project created and supported by the Free Software Foundation.

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Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux-libre and Linux are free software programmed in C.

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Linux kernel

The Linux kernel is a free and open source, UNIX-like kernel that is used in many computer systems worldwide. Linux-libre and Linux kernel are free software programmed in C and operating system kernels.

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Linux.com

Linux.com is a website that is owned by the Linux Foundation, where the goal of the site is to provide information about the developments and changes in Linux and related products, as well as providing a hub for the Linux community.

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List of computing mascots

This is a list of computing mascots.

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Microcode

In processor design, microcode serves as an intermediary layer situated between the central processing unit (CPU) hardware and the programmer-visible instruction set architecture of a computer, also known as its machine code.

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MIPS architecture

MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages) is a family of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architectures (ISA)Price, Charles (September 1995).

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Motorola 68000 series

The Motorola 68000 series (also known as 680x0, m68000, m68k, or 68k) is a family of 32-bit complex instruction set computer (CISC) microprocessors.

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Musix GNU+Linux

Musix GNU+Linux is a discontinued live CD and DVD Linux distribution for the IA-32 processor family based on Debian. Linux-libre and Musix GNU+Linux are 2008 software.

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Network interface controller

A network interface controller (NIC, also known as a network interface card, network adapter, LAN adapter and physical network interface) is a computer hardware component that connects a computer to a computer network.

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NixOS

NixOS is a free and open source Linux distribution based on the Nix package manager.

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Nvidia

Nvidia Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware.

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Obfuscation (software)

In software development, obfuscation is the act of creating source or machine code that is difficult for humans or computers to understand.

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Open-source hardware

Open-source hardware (OSH, OSHW) consists of physical artifacts of technology designed and offered by the open-design movement.

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OpenSUSE

openSUSE is a free and open-source Linux distribution developed by the openSUSE project.

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Parabola GNU/Linux-libre

Parabola GNU/Linux-libre is a free and open-source Linux distribution based on Arch Linux and Arch Linux ARM for the x86-64, i686, and ARMv7 architectures.

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Patch (computing)

A patch is data that is intended to be used to modify an existing software resource such as a program or a file, often to fix bugs and security vulnerabilities.

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Proprietary software

Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright and intellectual property law to exclude the recipient from freely sharing the software or modifying it, and—in some cases, as is the case with some patent-encumbered and EULA-bound software—from making use of the software on their own, thereby restricting their freedoms.

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PureOS

PureOS is a Linux distribution focusing on privacy and security, using the GNOME or KDE Plasma desktop environment. Linux-libre and PureOS are 2008 software.

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RISC-V

RISC-V (pronounced "risk-five") is an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) based on established reduced instruction set computer (RISC) principles.

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RPM Package Manager

RPM Package Manager (RPM) (originally Red Hat Package Manager, now a recursive acronym) is a free and open-source package management system. Linux-libre and RPM Package Manager are free software programmed in C.

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Scripting language

In computing, a script is a relatively short and simple set of instructions that typically automate an otherwise manual process.

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Slackware

Slackware is a Linux distribution created by Patrick Volkerding in 1993.

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Sound card

A sound card (also known as an audio card) is an internal expansion card that provides input and output of audio signals to and from a computer under the control of computer programs.

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Trisquel

Trisquel (full name Trisquel GNU/Linux) is a computer operating system, a Linux distribution, derived from another distribution, Ubuntu.

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TV tuner card

A TV tuner card is a kind of television tuner that allows television signals to be received by a computer.

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Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution derived from Debian and composed mostly of free and open-source software.

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Uruk GNU/Linux

Uruk GNU/Linux-libre is a PureOS-based Linux distribution.

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Ututo

Ututo is a Linux distribution consisting entirely of free software.

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X86-64

x86-64 (also known as x64, x86_64, AMD64, and Intel 64) is a 64-bit version of the x86 instruction set, first announced in 1999.

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See also

Linux kernel

• ΜClinux
• /boot/
• BogoMips
• Booting process of Linux
• Configuration Menu Language
• Cryptoloop
• Debugfs
• Dprobes
• Dracut (software)
• Dynamic Kernel Module Support
• Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset
• High memory
• History of Linux
• Initial ramdisk
• Kernel build
• LibATA
• Linux Security Modules
• Linux Test Project
• Linux console
• Linux kernel
• Linux kernel mailing list
• Linux kernel oops
• Linux kernel version history
• Linux on Apple devices
• Linux-libre
• List of Linux-supported computer architectures
• Loadable kernel module
• Longene
• Menuconfig
• Mm tree
• Native POSIX Thread Library
• PREEMPT RT
• Printk
• RTAI
• Run queue
• SCO–Linux disputes
• SLOB
• SLUB (software)
• Seqlock
• System.map
• TinyLinux
• Tux (mascot)
• Vmlinux

Operating system kernels

• Anticipatory scheduling
• Comparison of operating system kernels
• Cosmos (operating system)
• EKA1
• EKA2
• Exec (Amiga)
• Exokernel
• Hybrid kernel
• JX (operating system)
• KERNAL
• Kernel (operating system)
• Kernel debugger
• Kernel panic
• Kernel preemption
• Language-based system
• Linux kernel
• Linux-libre
• Loadable kernel module
• Loader (computing)
• Micro T-Kernel
• Microkernels
• Monolithic kernels
• Multikernel
• PowerUP (accelerator)
• Rump kernel
• SIMMON
• Segment descriptor
• Separation kernel
• SharpOS
• Software lockout
• System Contention Scope
• System calls
• Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate
• Thread control block
• Tickless kernel
• Timer coalescing
• Unikernel
• Vkernel
• WarpOS
• Windows NT kernel

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux-libre

Also known as GNU Linux-libre, Libre Linux, Linux libre.

, Parabola GNU/Linux-libre, Patch (computing), Proprietary software, PureOS, RISC-V, RPM Package Manager, Scripting language, Slackware, Sound card, Trisquel, TV tuner card, Ubuntu, Uruk GNU/Linux, Ututo, X86-64.