- Industry: Software
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Red Hat is a provider of enterprise Linux and other open source software.
Software that communicates directly with a computer hardware component or peripheral, allowing it to be used by the operating system; also referred to as a driver.
Industry:Software
Software that is stored on the master boot record of a bootable storage disk; can load one or more operating systems by reading file system information or through a pointer to a disk partition containing operating system files.
Industry:Software
Special encoding of data to reduce byte size; useful in storing and archiving large (or multiple) files or for transmission of data over a network.
Industry:Software
Specially written instructions by a software programmer to create executable programs when run through a compiler or language interpreter.
Industry:Software
Standard protocol for radio-frequency wireless data transmission and networking. Also called Wi-Fi.
Industry:Software
Successor to the serial line internet protocol (SLIP) protocol for computer system connectivity to TCP/IP networks. Commonly used in connecting to the Internet via dial-up modem.
Industry:Software
System component or peripheral (such as an Ethernet card or printer) that is accessed without buffer cache memory.
Industry:Software
System that distributes and manages shared and private keys for authentication of network sessions and access to applications.
Industry:Software
Systems or sections of a private local network that are made publicly available and visible from outside networks such as the Internet. Usually, a publicly-accessible resource (such as an HTTP server) is placed on a DMZ to protect the internal network while maintaining proper functionality for outside users.
Industry:Software
Term for a hard drive that controls other drives on the same connection. A master drive is usually the primary drive and is often used to load the computer's operating system.
Industry:Software
