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Jargon
Didn't understand something that someone said or something that was said on the website? Then this is the place to look! Here is a number of terms that are on the
website that we think people may get confused with and should be defined. The word is in bold and the definition is in italics. If you dont find the word
you were looking for please tell us on the mailing list or on the forums
Alpha:
Not tested, it beta, but lower in a way that it has not been tested, and it probably isn't stable. Probably prone to bugs.
Archive
Older versions that may be needed by more advanced users, we don't recommend using them for average users as more current versions may have bug-fixes and new
features that are beneficial to you.
Beta:
A program that has not been tested for stability and functioniality, and if it has, it has failed and still may or does have problems.
Bug:
A bug other than being a type of animal is used to describe a computer/program error. The name came to be when a moth flew into the Mark II. It was later
written in the log that the system was being "debugged".
CVS:
CVS stands for Concurrent Versions System. It is a revision control system which allows you to see all revisions and does not delete old files ever, just
adds to them.
Database:
An organized collection of information
GNU:
GNU stands for "GNU's not UNIX!". Linux is actually just the name of the kernel, the full name is GNU/Linux, GNU for the actual OS, Linux for the kernel.
GPL (GNU Public Licencse):
The GPL is a commonly used Open Source License.
Open Source:
A good definition can be found here
PHP:
PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP is a programming language commonly used for web design and programming for web applications because of its
great database support and simplicity. ZoomStats is written in PHP.
Source [code]:
The program instructions in their original form as the programmer wrote it.
Stable:
Stable means that the program is just that, stable. It is not beta and has under gone testing and has proved that it is not faulty and does not crash, the
operations of it are stable
Tarball:
A tarball are files or a directory that are packed into a file called a tarball. Usually tarballs are compressed by
gzip or bzip2 compression
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