@Decronym

Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz · edit-2 2 hours ago

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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CA	(SSL) Certificate Authority
Plex	Brand of media server package
nginx	Popular HTTP server

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Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz · edit-2 13 hours ago

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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DNS	Domain Name Service/System
Git	Popular version control system, primarily for code
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
NUC	Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
Plex	Brand of media server package
ZFS	Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity

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Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz · edit-2 23 hours ago

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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DNS	Domain Name Service/System
LXC	Linux Containers
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
NUC	Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
PCIe	Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
PiHole	Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
RAID	Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
RPi	Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
SBC	Single-Board Computer
SSD	Solid State Drive mass storage
VPN	Virtual Private Network

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