| ABI | 应用程序二进制接口 (Application Binary Interface) | 
| ALFS | Automated Linux From Scratch | 
| API | 应用程序编程接口 (Application Programming Interface) | 
| ASCII | 美国标准信息交换代码 (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) | 
| BIOS | 基本输入输出系统 (Basic Input/Output System) | 
| BLFS | Beyond Linux From Scratch | 
| BSD | Berkeley 软件发行版 (Berkeley Software Distribution) | 
| chroot | 切换根目录 (change root) | 
| CMOS | 互补金属氧化物半导体 (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) | 
| COS | 服务类型 (Class Of Service) | 
| CPU | 中央处理器 (Central Processing Unit) | 
| CRC | 循环冗余检查 (Cyclic Redundancy Check) | 
| CVS | 并行版本系统 (Concurrent Versions System) | 
| DHCP | 动态主机配置协议 (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) | 
| DNS | 域名服务 (Domain Name Service) | 
| EGA | 增强图形适配器 (Enhanced Graphics Adapter) | 
| ELF | 可执行与可链接格式 (Executable and Linkable Format) | 
| EOF | 文件结束 (End of File) | 
| EQN | 公式 (equation) | 
| ext2 | 第二代增强文件系统 (second extended file system) | 
| ext3 | 第三代增强文件系统 (third extended file system) | 
| ext4 | 第四代增强文件系统 (fourth extended file system) | 
| FAQ | 常见问题 (Frequently Asked Questions) | 
| FHS | 文件系统目录结构标准 (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) | 
| FIFO | 先进先出 (First-In, First Out) | 
| FQDN | 全限定域名 (Fully Qualified Domain Name) | 
| FTP | 文件传输协议 (File Transfer Protocol) | 
| GB | 吉字节 (Gigabytes) | 
| GCC | GNU 编译器集合 (GNU Compiler Collection) | 
| GID | 组标识符 (Group Identifier) | 
| GMT | 格林尼治标准时间 (Greenwich Mean Time) | 
| HTML | 超文本标记语言 (Hypertext Markup Language) | 
| IDE | 集成驱动电子设备 (Integrated Drive Electronics) | 
| IEEE | 电子电气工程师学会 (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) | 
| IO | 输入/输出 (Input/Output) | 
| IP | 因特网协议 (Internet Protocol) | 
| IPC | 进程间通信 (Inter-Process Communication) | 
| IRC | 互联网中继聊天 (Internet Relay Chat) | 
| ISO | 国际标准化组织 (International Organization for Standardization) | 
| ISP | 互联网服务提供商 (Internet Service Provider) | 
| KB | 千字节 (Kilobytes) | 
| LED | 发光二极管 (Light Emitting Diode) | 
| LFS | Linux From Scratch | 
| LSB | Linux 标准规范 (Linux Standard Base) | 
| MB | 兆字节 (Megabytes) | 
| MBR | 主引导记录 (Master Boot Record) | 
| MD5 | 消息摘要算法第五版 (Message Digest 5) | 
| NIC | 网络接口卡 (Network Interface Card) | 
| NLS | 本地语言支持 (Native Language Support) | 
| NNTP | 网络新闻传输协议 (Network News Transport Protocol) | 
| NPTL | 原生 POSIX 线程库 (Native POSIX Threading Library) | 
| OSS | 开放音频系统 (Open Sound System) | 
| PCH | 预编译头文件 (Pre-Compiled Headers) | 
| PCRE | Perl 兼容的正则表达式 (Perl Compatible Regular Expression) | 
| PID | 进程标识符 (Process Identifier) | 
| PTY | 伪终端 (pseudo terminal) | 
| QOS | 服务质量 (Quality of Service) | 
| RAM | 随机访问存储器 (Random Access Memory) | 
| RPC | 远程过程调用 (Remote Procedure Call) | 
| RTC | 实时时钟 (Real Time Clock) | 
| SBU | 标准构建单位 (Standard Build Unit) | 
| SCO | Santa Cruz 作业公司 (The Santa Cruz Operation) | 
| SHA1 | 安全散列算法第一版 (Secure-Hash Algorithm 1) | 
| TLDP | Linux 文档计划 (The Linux Documentation Project) | 
| TFTP | 简单文件传输协议 (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) | 
| TLS | 线程本地存储 (Thread-Local Storage) | 
| UID | 用户标识符 (User Identifier) | 
| umask | 用户文件创建掩码 (user file-creation mask) | 
| USB | 通用串行总线 (Universal Serial Bus) | 
| UTC | 协调世界时 (Coordinated Universal Time) | 
| UUID | 通用唯一识别码 (Universally Unique Identifier) | 
| VC | 虚拟控制台 (Virtual Console) | 
| VGA | 视频图形阵列 (Video Graphics Array) | 
| VT | 虚拟终端 (Virtual Terminal) |