- Industry: Software
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Red Hat is a provider of enterprise Linux and other open source software.
1. A physical group of blocks on a computer disk, treated as a single logical unit.
2. A collection of linked computer systems used for high-performance data processing loadbalancing.
Industry:Software
Industry standard email retrieval and storage protocol. IMAP servers store email messages that users access and read on the server, as opposed to downloading all messages using the post office protocol (POP).
Industry:Software
Info pages give detailed information about a command or file (man pages tend to be brief and provide less explanation than info pages). Info pages are interactive with a navigable menu system.
Access an info page with the info command.
Industry:Software
Interface for connecting additional multiple storage drives to a computer system. For example, some hard drives and CD-ROM drives that have integrated device controllers attach to IDE connectors.
Industry:Software
Management system of tools, databases, and libraries that handle the installation and removal of RPM packages. Run the command rpm to use the program.
Industry:Software
Name service for network authentication and access. Replaces local authentication files such as /etc/passwd and /etc/group.
Industry:Software
Network authentication system developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to control access to services and applications.
Industry:Software
Pronounced "you-niks," a multi-user, multitasking network operating system developed at Bell Labs in the early 1970s. Linux is based on, and is highly compatible with, UNIX.
Industry:Software
Protocol for interactive terminal access to remote machines. Telnet communications are unencrypted and provide no security from network interception.
Industry:Software
