All Computings
Wayland
A combination protocol and compositing Window Manager Provides compatibility with X11 through Wayland
Virtual Memory
The memory space allocated for a given Process, as part of Process Isolation A process will see only its memory; attempting to access any address in the space will be isolated to that process - it can’t (e....
Virtual Machine
An isolated environment, often with its own Instruction Set Architecture, in order to perform various operations; all interactions with a host system must go through specific calls in the virtual machine....
vim
A userland program designed for text editing Replaces vi Often compared and contrasted to emacs
VFS
Represents an abstract layer to access and modify Files without concern for the underlying system. E.g. network-attached storage This may be in contrast to a Pseudo File System, which represents non-file objects in a file-like manner
UTF-8
Encoding format for text Superset of ascii See also: Byte Order Mark
UTF-16
Fixed-width Unicode character encoding Used by Javascript and, previously, almost universally on Windows
Userland
Refers to all programs running outside of the Kernel, in the User Space Each program has its own Virtual Memory location, and cannot access other processes
User Space
The area of memory allocated by the Global Descriptor Table for use by unprivileged programs that require Process Isolation Can make calls out to the Kernel through the Standard Library or syscalls
USB
Resources https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0O5Uwc3C0o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdgULBpRoXk