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title: Linux-isms
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- linux
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- glossary
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- misc
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date: 9-08-23
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---
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This article is somewhat of a glossary for all the words/phrases that I use that originate with Linux or related projects like GNU. Many of the terms here can be found in [The Jargon File](http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/). I don't just link to that because it's absolutely massive, but it's a very fun read through if you're interested in how people have talked about computing in the past.
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## On Acronyms
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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.
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## Definitions
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### BSD
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- [Berkeley Software Distribution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution).
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1. A now-defunct free operating system regarded as the predecessor to modern Linux.
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2. A free software license. Most commonly in modern use, the BSD 2-Clause License, aka the FreeBSD license.
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### Symlink
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- Short for "Symbolic Link."
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- A file in a Linux system is really just a pointer to a location on a storage device.
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- A symlink is just a pointer to a pointer [repeat N times] to a location on a storage device. |