Glossary

This glossary has terms we have defined ourselves or modified from Wikipedia.

Case or chassis in an average desktop computer is just a strong metal box, with ports for input and ouput (IO) to connect all your peripherals like a mouse, keyboards, monitors, speakers, headphones and microphones. The case has a power inlet, and switches for power-on and reset.

Power Supply Unit (PSU) converts electricity supplied from wall sockets for use inside your desktop PC. to is the first and most important safety check. Always ensure Wev’e

Serial Advanced Technology Atachment (SATA)

DC Direct Current

AC

Motherboard

PCIe

RAM

Hard Drive

BIOS

Operating System (OS)

VGA

DVI

USB

CPU

GHZ

G

Fan

Heatsink

HDCP

Ubuntu

FOSS

Linux

GNU/linux

File System

NTFS

EXT4

In fact too comply with the terms of various FOSS licenses , almost all the software on your SDLW computer has to be made available. A convenient way to do this for an Operating System is in an online software “warehouse” called a repository or repo for short.

To find the source of any software inside a repo, I type a simple command into the terminal, my computer consults a list of possible source repos and if it can find it, downloads and installs the software, and I have the option to download the source code as well.

If I make a change to the program's source code and re-distribute it, I am then obliged make those changes available as well.