D. Glossary and References

affix

in grammar, a word element that, when added to a word, modifies its meaning or function; prefix, infix, or suffix.

Debian

A 100% Open Source Linux distribution http://www.debian.org

DICT protocol

A TCP transaction based query/response protocol that allows a client to access dictionary definitions from a set of natural language dictionary databases. http://www.dict.org/

Gnome

A project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. http://www.gnome.org/

GTK+

A library for creating graphical user interfaces for the X Window System. It is designed to be small, efficient, and flexible. http://www.gtk.org/

GUI

Graphics User Interface

Ispell.el

Emacs interface for ispell. http://www.kdstevens.com/~stevens/ispell-page.html

Ispell

An international spell checker which is just about the only decent Open Source spell checker out there. (except Aspell of course). http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html

Ispell -a

An Ispell mode that is designed to be used by other applications though a pipe.

KDE

A powerful graphical desktop environment for Unix workstations. http://www.kde.org

Linux

A Open Source version of Unix which runs on many platforms. http://www.linux.org/

LyX

An What You See is What You Mean document editor for the X environment, http://www.lyx.org

Open Source

Software where the source code is available for anyone to extend or modify. http://www.opensource.org/

Red Hat

A commercial Linux distribution. http://www.redhat.com

RPM

Red Hat's packing format also used by other Linux distributions.

STL

Standard Temple Library. A C++ library of container classes, algorithms, and iterators.

SGI STL

Silicon Graphics implantation of the STL. http://www.sgi.com/Technology/STL/

STLPort

A port of SGI STL designed to run on compilers that don't support all the latest features of C++. http://corp.metabyte.com/~fbp/stl/