All Computings
GCC
A Compiler that’s part of the GNU buildchain, and commonly used on Linux and other POSIX systems for building software (though many have also now moved to clang including macOS) Originally only supported C, but now supports many languages Stands in contrast to clang
Garbage Collection
Various strategies to claim memory that was previously allocated on the Heap by a Process but which is no longer required and can be freed back to the system....
Forking
https://thecodeboss.dev/2016/11/how-daemons-the-init-process-and-process-forking-work/ In Linux, Processes (spawned from the Init System) are created by ‘forking’: A process duplicates itself to create a child process, then making an exec System Call to start another program
firewalld
A frontend to Netfilter Contrasts with iptables
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard outlines the conventional layout of UNIX systems and is largely adhered to by BSD and Linux (and macOS for the core userland ), though the specification only officially holds for Linux...
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard outlines the conventional layout of UNIX systems and is largely adhered to by BSD and Linux (and macOS for the core userland ), though the specification only officially holds for Linux...
Files
Represents one or more blocks of data that make up a file. The disk Blocks that make up the file will be described by the File System, and assembled for use by User Space programs....
File System Journal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journaling_file_system A file system journal records changes that the disk is going to make in a central location (the journal) before the disk then makes the changes in the the final location (which may take longer and require multiple operations across the disk)....
File System
https://tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/filesystems.html The methods and datastructures that allow for organising and accessing data on disk. Filesystem-like structures exist including Pseudo File Systems and Virtual File Systems....
fat32
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#FAT32 See also fat