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JimH

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Linux Glossary
« on: October 15, 2013, 08:00:45 pm »

I thought it might be useful to provide some definitions.

rpm is a package manager, originally written for Red Hat Linux.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM_Package_Manager

libcurl provides web related functions necessary to support features like UPnP / DLNA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libcurl

distro is a distribution or flavor of Linux.  Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, RedHat, etc. 
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