quartz/content/Misc/linux-isms.md

title	tags	date
Linux-isms	linux glossary misc	9-08-23

This article is somewhat of a glossary for all the words/phrases that I use that originate with Linux or related projects like GNU.

On Acronyms

Unix LOVES their acronyms. ls? LiSt. cat? conCATenate. grep? Globular Regular Expression Print. Many commands and programs were designed to be typed quickly in the early days of computing, and holdovers persist to this day.

Definitions

BSD

• Berkeley Software Distribution.
  1. A now-defunct free operating system regarded as the predecessor to modern Linux.
  2. A free software license. Most commonly in modern use, the BSD 2-Clause License, aka the FreeBSD license.

Symlink

• Short for "Symbolic Link."
• A file in a Linux system is really just a pointer to a location on a storage device.
• A symlink is just a pointer to a pointer [repeat N times] to a location on a storage device.