All Computings
Qt
A cross-platform Graphical Toolkit Heavily used by KDE, but not directly related
Pseudo File System
Represents non-file objects as Files Allows access to these objects using the standard IO operations in the Standard Library In Linux this functionality is provided by kernfs This is in contrast to a Virtual File System which may still represent actual files...
procfs
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4884/what-is-the-difference-between-procfs-and-sysfs https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/proc.5.html A Pseudo File System Exposes Processes as Files Has no specific structure - Process files exposed by kernel could follow the same format, but other types may not Mounted in /proc Complemented and succeeded by sysfs
Processes
Represents a running program, including its Virtual Memory, Stack, Heap
POSIX Standard
Outlines a series of standards that govern various core operating system components and interfaces Standardised using UNIX as a starting point Systems that are POSIX-Compliant can (with relatively little modification) run programs designed for a different POSIX-Compliant system E....
Pointers
A data structure (usually an unsigned int or larger, depending on the Compiler configuration) that stores a reference to a memory location in the Heap
PE
The Application Binary Interface used by Windows systems Stands in contrast to ELF and Mach-O
PCI
A series of standards that govern hardware communication Typically sets up devices and creates a Memory Map to allow device communication Resources Accessing PCI Express Configuration Registers: http://www....
Partitions
A contiguous segment of on-disk data, described in a partition table (like GUID Partition Table (GPT))).md) or Master Boot Record (MBR)))....
OpenRC
An alternative Init System, designed to be similar to SysVInit but with some enhancements