there's also http://www.jargonfile.org It's the online version of the book
Jon mentioned.
-Larry
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> A good pointer for those of you who don't know all the Jargon is:
>
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/
>
> There is a hard-bound version of it called "The New Hacker's Dictionary".
>
> I will be happy to buy a copy of this book for the group, if someone will
> bring
> it to the meetings. You can put it up on a podium for all to use.
>
> And when you are at a meeting, and are lost in the Jargon, ask the person
> to please explain what they are talking about. One of the tenants of the
> Linux User Group is that we help newcomers understand what is going on,
> even if it means we have to slow down our conversations a bit, IYKWIM.
>
> md
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