Glossary
- DBus
- A message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one
another. It has replaced similar technologies such as Bonobo (Gnome)
or DCOP (KDE).
- Hal
- Hardware abstraction layer, an interface between hardware and
software that abstracts differences between heterogeneous devices
and provides hints about their capabilities.
- MNC
- Mobile Network Code uniquely identifies an operator.
- ModemManager
- An API defined between the NetworkManager and Wader project to
communicate with mobile broadband (GSM, CDMA, UMTS, ...) cards. It
implements a loadable plugin interface to add work-arounds for non
standard devices.
- NetworkManager
- This tool has managed to be the de-facto network configuration
tool in the last years on the Linux desktop. Almost all modern
Linux distros rely on it.
- UUID
- Universally unique identifier.