Netware Asynchronous Board (Novell, Netware) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Administration Center From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Networks and Communications From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Null Attached Concentrator (FDDI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
North American Conference on Logic Programming (USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Networks And Communications Marketing From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National Advisory Committee on Semiconductors (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Netware Asynchronous Communication Server (Novell, Netware) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Access Control System (Netware, DES, cryptography) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National Academic Center for Science Information Systems (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Neural Adaptive Control Technology [project] (NN) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Access Device From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National Archeological DataBase (DB, USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Novell Authorized Education Center (Novell, Netware) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National Algorithms Group [ltd] (UK, org.), "NAg" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Architecture Group (org.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
/nag'weir/ n. [Usenet] The variety of shareware that displays a large screen at the beginning or end reminding you to register, typically requiring some sort of keystroke to continue so that you can't use the software in batch mode. Compare annoyware, crippleware. From Jargon Dictionary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Netzwerk Arbeitswelt Informatik (manufacturer) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
BSD mail(1) supporting MIME, SMTP and international charsets Workalike of the classical mail(1). Nail can produce and read MIME messages and has greatly improved character-set handling, including support for UTF-8. Without a mail-transport-agent you won't be able to receive mail, though sending works perfectly well (look for the 'smtp' variable in nail(1)). From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Netware Application Launcher (Novell, Netware, NAM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Nevada Academic Libraries Information System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Netware Application Manager (Novell, Netware, NAL) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Full text search engine (namazu binary and cgi) Namazu is a full text search engine with is usable via cgi. It features a simple and easy setup, and is written in C and Perl. Namazu uses the text utilities nkf and kakasi (or chasen, which is not available in Debian). This package includes binary only for search index. To create indexes, please install namazu2-index-tools package. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
These tools will provide you with the IP addresses for given host names,as well as other information about registered domains and network addresses. You should install bind-utils if you need to get information from DNS nameservers. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A system that uses domain name system (DNS) to translate an assigned name into its associated IP address, and vice versa. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Internet domain name server From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
named configuration file syntax checking tool From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
zone file validity checking tool From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
follow a pathname until a terminal point is found From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
name network interfaces based on MAC addresses From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National Association of Multimedia Shareware (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU Nana -- improved support for assertions and logging GNU Nana is a freely available library providing improved support for assertions and logging in GNU C/C++. In particular: * Space/time efficient assertion checking * Space/time efficient program logging * Code-to-HTML converter giving only details of your interface and pre/postconditions (similar to Eiffel short form). * Statement and function-level tracing under GDB. * Logging via inline C code (as in <assert.h>) or by extraction of commands for gdb which results in no performance cost unless running in the debugger. It was written by the author because he has written too many of these systems in the past for individual projects and has finally gotten tired of it. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
free Pico clone with some new features GNU nano is a free replacement for Pico, the default Pine editor. Pine is copyrighted under a slightly restrictive license, that makes it unsuitable for Debian's main section. GNU nano is an effort to provide a Pico-like editor, but also includes some features that were missing in the original, such as 'search and replace', 'goto line' or internationalization support. As it's written from scratch, it's smaller and faster. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Acronym for Network Access Point, the major internet providers usually have peering points at one or more NAPs. From KADOWKEV http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Napster console client Napster console client. The advantage of nap over other graphical clients like gnome-napster is that you can run it under screen(1) on a remote host and disconnect from your session while nap continues the downloads. You can later reconnect to your running client even from another host and do more commands. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Access Point (IN) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax (BBS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
??? From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Non-Broadcast Multiple Access Address Resolution Protocol (RFC 1735) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Netware Access Services (Novell, Netware) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Application Services (DEC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Application Support From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Attached Storage From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The Network Audio System (NAS). (local server) The Network Audio System was developed by NCD for playing, recording, and manipulating audio data over a network. Like the X Window System, it uses the client/server model to separate applications from the specific drivers that control audio input and output devices. This package contains the nas daemon (au), needed for local output from nas. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
An Algol-60 interpreter Algol-60 is the ancestor to most contemporary programming languages. It has been described by one of its designers, Edsger Dijkstra, as "a great improvement on many of its successors". The main attraction of this language is its historical importance. The present package contains a simple interpreted reimplementation of the Algol 60 language, "made for fun and call-by-name". From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Netware Asynchronous Service Interface (Novell, Netware) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General-purpose x86 assembler Netwide Assembler. NASM will currently output flat-form binary files, a.out, COFF and ELF Unix object files, and Microsoft 16-bit DOS and Win32 object files. Also included is NDISASM, a prototype x86 binary-file disassembler which uses the same instruction table as NASM. NASM is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NASM is the Netwide Assembler, a free portable assembler for the Intel 80x86 microprocessor series, using primarily the traditional Intel instruction mnemonics and syntax. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Tools for the operating-system independent RDOFF binary format, whichis sometimes used with the Netwide Assembler (NASM). These tools include linker, library manager, loader, and information dump. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
[IP] Network Address Translator (RFC 1631, IP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NAT is a way of providing access to the Internet through a single machine that translates the IP addresses. The NAT itself has one or more IP addresses, but all the machines behind the NAT have "private" Internet addresses. Contrast: A NAT provides some firewalling capabilities because isolates the end-nodes while still providing access to the Internet. The isolation is better than packet-filter firewalls, but not as good as proxies. From Hacking-Lexicon http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The default file format a program uses to store data on disk. The format is often a proprietary file format. Many popular programs today can retrieve and save data in several formats. See ASCII. Computer scientists are working to improve computers so that they can respond to natural language. Human languages are so complex that no single model of a natural language grammar system has gashed widespread acceptance among linguists. The complexity OF human languages, coupled with the lack of under standing about what information is needed to decode human sentences, makes it difficult to devise programs that recognize speech. Progress in solving these problems has been slow. From QUECID http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National Association of Telecommunications Officers & Advisors (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Addressable Unit (IBM, SNA, OSI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Attachment Unit (GigaB, IP-router) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Nearest Active Upstream Neighbour (MAC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
file manager and graphical shell Nautilus is an open-source file manager and graphical shell being developed by Eazel, Inc. and others. It is part of the GNOME project, and its source code can be found in the GNOME CVS repository. Nautilus is still in the early stages of development. It will become an integral part of the GNOME desktop environment when it is finished. Nautilus has the own BTS at http://bugzilla.eazel.com/ If you find the upstream problem (not packaging problem!!), please use it instead of Debian BTS. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Nautilus integrates access to files, applications, media, Internet-based resources and the Web. Nautilus delivers a dynamic and rich user experience. Nautilus is a free software project developed under the GNU General Public License and is a core component of the GNOME desktop project. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Nautilus is an excellent file manager for the GNOME desktop environment. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NAVy NETwork (mil., USA, network) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
pattern scanning and text processing language From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Non-windowmanager with windowmanager functionality nawm is not a window manager. It has a powerful configuration language for using windowmanager-like functionality. Because it is not a windowmanager, nawm can be run along side you existing windowmanager. Great for making up for missing functionality without having to change to a whole new windowmanager. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Nota bene (slang, Usenet, IRC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Natural Binary Coded Decimal From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Block Device client This package contains the client process for the Network Block Device. The Network Block Device is a client/server protocol that emulates a block device (like a hard disk, a floppy, a CD-ROM, ...) over the network, thus giving the system the ability to swap over the network, or to use raw network diskspace for other purposes. Note, however, that it is not possible to access a single networked block device from different clients simultaneously; if you want that, you don't need the Network Block Device (which, basically, is a Disk Server protocol) but something else, like Sun's Network File System (NFS), or CODA. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NetBIOS Datagram Distribution [server] (NETBIOS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Not-Below-or-Equal From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
New BF Compiler The New BrainF*** compiler can compile code from the BF language into C, and from there into native machine code. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NETBIOS Frames Control Program (NETBIOS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
[PPP] NETBIOS Frames Control Protocol (PPP, NETBIOS, RFC 2097) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Narrow Band Frequency Modulation From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Non-Broadcast Multiple Access (UNI, ATM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NetBIOS Name Server (NETBIOS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Name Binding Protocol (AppleTalk) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
If you have an unused 100 or 250 MB ZIP-drive around, give it a new goal. Use it to run Linux. No hard disk or ramdisk required. A Zip disk-based distribution. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Narrow Band Socket (Intel, Nokia) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National Bureau of Standards (org., predecessor, NIST) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NETBIOS on TCPIP (MS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A program for scanning networks for NetBIOS name information. NBTscan is a program for scanning IP networks for NetBIOS name information. It sends NetBIOS status query to each address in supplied range and lists received information in human readable form. For each responded host it lists IP address, NetBIOS computer name, logged-in user name and MAC address (such as Ethernet). From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Client program for NEdit text editor From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Channel / Connect / Control From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Co-ordinator (FidoNet) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Computer [reference profile] (Apple, IBM, Netscape, Oracle, Sun, Internet) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Norton Commander (Symantec) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Numerical Control From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
TCP/IP swiss army knife From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Communications Adapter From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Computing Architecture (Oracle) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Control Analysis From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Novell Certification Alliance (Novell, Netware) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National Center for Automated Information Research (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
displays a calendar and the date of easter From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National Center for Accessible Media (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Control Block (LAN) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Control / Coordination Center From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Control Computer From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Communications Control Facility (IBM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NASA Center for Computational Sciences (org., NASA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Computing Devices (manufacturer) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Norton Change Directory (DOS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Display directory tree NcdT displays directory tree, much like standard tree(1), but with few improvements: - it prints summary info instead of directory special file size - it prints MP3 file info It's particularly useful for indexing CDs. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Nomadic Computing Environment (Tadpole) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A user-friendly and well-featured FTP client. This program allows a user to transfer files to and from a remote network site, and offers additional features that are not found in the standard interface, ftp. This version has Readline support enabled. This is a complete re-write of version 2.4.3 (Debian package ncftp2). Some users may prefer the full-screen ncurses interface of the "older" NcFTP 2.4.3; if you are one of them, install the ncftp2 package instead. Home Page: http://www.ncftp.com/ncftp/ From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Ncftp is an improved FTP client. Ncftp's improvements include support for command line editing, command histories, recursive gets, automatic anonymous logins, and more. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National Computer Graphics Association (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National Consortium for High Performance Computing (org., HPC, USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Channel Interface From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Non Coded Information From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Native Client Interface Architecture (IOS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Novell Certified Internet Professional (Novell, WWW, CNA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National Committee for Information Technology Standards (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Null Convention Logic (CPU) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
N-channel [Silicon Gate Reversed] CMOS From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Nixdorf Communications Network From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
netCDF Operators NCO is a suite of programs known as operators. Each operator is a standalone, command line program that is executed at the UNIX shell-level. The operators take one or more netCDF files as input, perform an operation (e.g., averaging or hyperslabbing), and produce a netCDF file as output. The operators are primarily designed to aid manipulation and analysis of data. This reflects their origin, but the operators are as general as netCDF itself. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National Coordination Office for High Performance Computing and Communications (org., USA, HPC), "NCO/HPCC" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Computer Operating System (OS, Oracle, Internet) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Non-Concurrent Operating System (OS, UNIVAC 9200, UNIVAC 9300) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Netware Core Protocol (Novell, IPX) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Control Processor From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Control Program (BBN, ARPANET) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Control Program / Point (IBM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Non-Carbon Paper From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Not Copy-Protected From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Netware Core Protocol Extension (NCP, Netware, IPX) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Utilities to use resources from NetWare servers. This package contains utilities to mount volumes from NetWare servers. Also included are some little utilities such as nprint, which enables you to print on NetWare print queues, and pserver, which provides NetWare print queues. Package ncpfs-2.0.12 and above replaces package ncpfsx. This package will work with 2.0.x, 2.1.x, 2.2.x, 2.3.x and 2.4.x kernels. Also, NetWare Directory Services are supported in ncpfs-2.0.12 and above. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National Council on Patient Information and Education (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A process-killer for console ncps is a ncurses based process-lister and -killer for console inspired by gPS. It can sort processes according to various criteria and can also display them in tree view. It is much more powerful than gitps of the GNU Interactive Tools. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National Cash Registers (manufacturer, AT&T) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National Communications System (USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Computing System (HP, Apollo) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Control System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A supercomputer research center, affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-champaign that specializes in scientific visualization. NCSA most recently achieved fame as the birthplace of NCSA Mosaic, the popular Web browser. From QUECID http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National Computer Security Center (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
North Carolina Supercomputing Center (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Communications Service Interface (NMP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National Computer Systems Laboratory (NIST, org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National Conference of Standards Laboratories (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Computing System Network Data Representation (HP, Apollo), "NCS NDR" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Non Commentary Sources Statements (LOC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Number Crunching Statistical System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library (WWW) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Control and Timing From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Channel-Terminating Equipment From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National Computer and Telecommunications Laboratory (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The curses library routines are a terminal-independent method of updating character screens with reasonable optimization. The ncurses (new curses) library is a freely distributable replacement for the discontinued 4.4BSD classic curses library. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Tiny little command line WebDAV interface nd provides a simple command line interface to the RFC 2518 (WebDAV) server. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Delivery Access From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Non-Disclosure Agreement From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Norddeutsche DatenAutobahn (network) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network DataBase Management System (DB) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Non-standard DataBase System (DB) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National Destination Code (MS-ISDN, GSM, mobile-systems) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Data Collection From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Node Data Controller (Zenith) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Data Collection Center From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Norton Disk Doctor [software] From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Neutral Data Definition Language (DDL) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NeWS Development Environment From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Distributed ISDN [for windows NT] (AVM, ISDN, Windows NT) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Compares two nmap scans NDiff is a tool that can take the output from two nmap scans and give you the difference between them. The difference can be new or removed hosts and services. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Driver Interface Specification (3COM, MS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Database Language (DB, 4GL) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Normal Disconnected Mode (IRDA, IRLAP, NRM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Data Management Protocol From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Netware Distributed Management Services (Novell, Netware) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Numeric Data Processor From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Problem Determination Application From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Data Representation (NCS, DCE) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Data Representation service (DCE/RPC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Non-Destructive Read From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Non-Destructive ReadOut From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Netware Directory Services (Novell, Netware) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Data System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Net Data Throughput From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Newfoundland Daylight Time (TZ, NFT) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Non-Destructive Testing From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
server for accessing CD-ROM books with NDTP NDTPD is a server for accessing CD-ROM books with NDTP (Network Dictionary Transfer Protocol) on TCP. You can replace dserver with NDTPD. NDTPD can run on UNIX derived systems. It supports CD-ROM books of EB, EBG, EBXA, EBXA-C, S-EBXA and EPWING formats. CD-ROM books of those formats are popular in Japan. Since CD-ROM books themselves are stands on the ISO 9660 format, you can mount the discs by the same way as other ISO 9660 discs. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Device Utility From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Element From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Nice Editor, an easy-to-use and powerful editor NE is one of the few editors being both easy to use for the beginner and powerful enough for the wizard. It uses short, intuitive and easy to remember key bindings while providing all the features an editor should have. It is fully configurable allowing the user to change the content of the various menus, to easily create small macros and to easily change the existing key bindings while being a small and fast editor. It was written by Sebastiano Vigna and Todd Lewis. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
??? [protocol stack on OSI transport layer] From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National Electronic Accounting and Reporting From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
New England Academic and Research NETwork (USA, network), "NEARnet" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
New Enhanced Advanced Technology (AT) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Novell Easy Administration Tool (Novell, Netware) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National Electrical Code (USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NEC2 Antenna Modelling System The NEC2 (Numerical Electromagnetics Code) is software for modelling antennas using the Method of Moments. It was developed at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, and remains widely used, despite the old fashioned punched card style input required. This version contains code which hasn't been extensively tested for errors, which was input by hand from a report -- use with care. The numerics are currently only SINGLE PRECISION. User's documentation is provided in HTML format (based on OCR text so beware of potential errors. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Nippon Electronic Corporation (manufacturer) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NASA Extragalactic Database (DB) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A powerful, customizable, Motif based text editor. NEdit is a multi-purpose text editor for the X Window System, which combines a standard, easy to use, graphical user interface with the thorough functionality and stability required by users who edit text eight hours a day. It provides intensive support for development in a wide variety of languages, text processors, and other tools, but at the same time can be used productively by just about anyone who needs to edit text. Users of Macintosh and MS Windows based text editors will find NEdit a familiar and comfortable environment. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Text Editor From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Client program for NEdit text editor From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
New Energy and industrial technology Development Organization (org., Japan) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Extensible File System, "NeFS" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National Engineering Information Initiative (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Nothing Else Matters (slang, Usenet, IRC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
TCP/IP Packet Injection Suite The Nemesis Project is designed to be a commandline-based, portable human IP stack for UNIX/Linux. The suite is broken down by protocol and should allow for useful scripting of injected packet streams from simple shell scripts. Key features: * support for ARP, DNS, ICMP, IGMP, OSPF, RIP, TCP, UDP protocols * layer 2 or layer 3 injection * packet payload from file From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NeoLinux - Neoware's embedded Linux for information appliances. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Never-Ending Program From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
format equations for ascii output From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NEbraska Research and Education Network (USA, network) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
News Electronic Service From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NEurocomputer fuer Spikende Neuronale Netze (TUB) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Remote network security auditor, the client The Nessus Security Scanner is a security auditing tool. It makes possible to test security modules in an attempt to find vulnerable spots that should be fixed. It is made up of two parts: a server, and a client. The server/daemon, nessusd, is in charge of the attacks, whereas the client, nessus, provides the user a nice X11/GTK+ interface. This package contains the GTK+ 1.2 client, which exists in other forms and on other platforms, too. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Remote network security auditor, the server The Nessus Security Scanner is a security auditing tool. It makes possible to test security modules in an attempt to find vulnerable spots that should be fixed. It is made up of two parts: a server, and a client. The server/daemon, nessusd, is in charge of the attacks, whereas the client, nessus, provides the user a nice X11/GTK+ interface. This package contains the nessusd server, which must be run as root. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Netware Embedded Systems Technology (Novell, Netware) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Nintendo Entertainment System emulator Nestra is a dynamic recompiler which translates 6502 code into native code to emulate a Nintendo Entertainment System. Execution of the translated code is quite fast, and the emulator can run at full speed with relatively modest CPU requirements. To use this program, you need NES ROMs which are not included. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Entity Title From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Someone who browses the Internet with no definite destination. From Glossary of Distance Education and Internet Terminology http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Usermode IP accounting daemon This package logs network traffic. It provides a daemon (nacctd) that logs all traffic passing the machine it runs on (similar to what tcpdump does). Capability is provided to associate traffic to slip/ppp users in case you run a slip/ppp server. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a protocol used fornetwork management. The NET-SNMP project includes various SNMP tools: an extensible agent, an SNMP library, tools for requesting or setting information from SNMP agents, tools for generating and handling SNMP traps, a version of the netstat command which uses SNMP, and a Tk/Perlmib browser. This package contains the snmpd and snmp trapd daemons,documentation, etc. You will probably also want to install the net-snmp-utils package, which contains NET-SNMP utilities. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The net-snmp-utils package contains various utilities for use with the NET-SNMP network management project. Install this package if you need utilities for managing your network using the SNMP protocol. You will also need to install the net-snmp package. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The NET-3 networking toolkit This package includes the important tools for controlling the network subsystem of the Linux kernel. This includes arp, ifconfig, netstat, rarp, nameif and route. Additionally, this package contains utilities relating to particular network hardware types (plipconfig, slattach) and advanced aspects of IP configuration (iptunnel, ipmaddr). In the upstream package 'hostname' and friends are included. Those are not installed by this package, since there is a special "hostname*.deb". From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
AppleTalk user binaries Netatalk is an implementation of the AppleTalk Protocol Suite for BSD-derived systems. The current release contains support for EtherTalk Phase I and II, DDP, RTMP, NBP, ZIP, AEP, ATP, PAP, ASP, and AFP. This package contains all daemon and utility programs as well as Netatalk's static libraries. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Basic TCP/IP networking system This package provides the necessary infrastructure for basic TCP/IP based networking. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NetBios Enhanced User Interface: an enhanced version of the NetBIOS protocol used by network operating systems such as LAN Manager, LAN Server, Windows 9x and 2000. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NETBIOS Extended User Interface (UI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
In Windows, NetBIOS is a way for writing network-aware applications, much like sockets is for UNIX. Misunderstanding: Like sockets, many different protocols can be used to transport applications written to the NetBIOS API. When you say "NetBIOS", some people will understand you to mean the TCP/IP transport. Other people will think of "NetBEUI", which is the transport over raw Ethernet without any intervening routable network protocol. Use the term "NBT" (NetBIOS-over-TCP) or "NetBEUI" to avoid confusion. Contrast: Microsoft's "File and Print Sharing" uses the SMB protocol over NetBIOS. Microsoft supports the NetBIOS interface over TCP/IP, NetBEUI, and Novell's IPX/SPX. Home users who share files among their own machines mistakenly enable File and Print Sharing using the TCP/IP transport, allowing hackers anywhere on the Internet access to their machine. Instead, they should configure it over the NetBEUI transport so that nobody outside their network can access their files (note: this still might open up their networks to people on the same cable-modem VLAN). History: Originally developed by SyTek for IBM. It was implemented in the ROM of IBM'ss broadband Ethernet (3-mbps, over cable TV coax rather than normal Ethernet coax, separate send/receive channels). More: If you maintain a firewall, you will see regular NetBIOS requests in your logs. Read the document http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs/firewall-seen.html#netbios for more info. From Hacking-Lexicon http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NETwork Basic Input Output System (IBM, RFC 1001/1002), "NetBIOS" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NETwork BLock Transfer (IP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Booting of a diskless computer This package allows booting of a diskless computer over a network and mounting the root filesystem via NFS. It contains the necessary boot ROM code and utility program to convert a Linux kernel or MS-DOS disk into a net bootable image. For more information: http://www.han.de/~gero/netboot/index.html From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NETBIOS, TCP/IP), "NetBT" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A popular tool for command-line manipulation of ports, especially text-based protocols. Often used as a replacement for Telnet. Key Point: Variants of netcat are a popular way of redirecting shell prompts and other protocols. In the past, this was always done in the clear. Today, there are variants such as aes-netcat or crytcat.exe that will encrypt the channel. From Hacking-Lexicon http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
TCP/IP swiss army knife A simple Unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections using TCP or UDP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable "back-end" tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NETwork Common Data Format, "NetCDF" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
An interface for scientific data access. NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is an interface for scientific data access and a freely-distributed software library that provides an implementation of the interface. The netCDF library also defines a machine-independent format for representing scientific data. Together, the interface, library, and format support the creation, access, and sharing of scientific data. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A text-based tool for simple configuration of ethernet devices. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NETwork Design and Analysis From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Net-Diagnostics (trafshow,strobe,netwatch,statnet,tcpspray,tcpblast) Netdiag contains a collection of small tools to analyze network traffic and configuration of remote hosts (strobe). It is of invaluable help if your system is showing strange network behaviour and you want to find out what your network is doing. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NETwork DUmp data Displayer and Editor for tcpdump trace files It is a GUI-based tool that allows you to make detailed changes to packets in tcpdump trace files, in particular, it can currently do the following: * Set the value of every field in IP, TCP and UDP packet headers. ICMP support will be finished shortly. * Copy, move and delete packets in the trace file. * Fragment and reassemble IP packets. * Netdude constantly communicates with a tcpdump process to update the familiar tcpdump output that corresponds to the trace. This also means that any changes made to your local version of tcpdump are reflected in Netdude. * Plugin architecture: people can easily add plugins for specific tasks. The code comes with a plugin for checksum correction in IP, TCP and UDP, and a dummy plugin. * Through the plugin mechanism, Netdude provides a good facility for writing tcpdump trace file filters. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Configure your system for different network environments. Netenv creates a file containing variable assignments which reflect the current environment. It is especially useful for notebook computers, since it is used (if configured) by the PCMCIA setup scheme included in the Debian pcmcia-cs package and the plip setup script included as an example in this package. You can also use netenv configure your windowmanager or your printing environment. Note that you either have to specify a kernel parameter or enter the chosen environment by hand during boot time. The boot process will stop until you entered something. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Overhead dungeon-crawler game (dummy package) Nethack is a wonderfully silly, yet quite addicting, Dungeons and Dragons-style adventure game. You play the part of a fierce fighter, wizard, or any of many other classes, fighting your way down to retrieve the Amulet of Yendor (try saying THAT one backwards!) for your god. On the way, you might encounter a quantum mechanic or two, or perhaps a microscopic space fleet, or -- if you're REALLY lucky -- the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. This package is merely a dummy package that depends on nethack-common and nethack-x11 to facilitate upgrades. You may safely remove it from your system. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The etiquette of using the Internet. To avoid breaching Netiquette, make sure that you investigate any FAQs or new user sections of newsgroups and do not send irrelevent e-mail. From Glossary of Distance Education and Internet Terminology http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Internet file transfer program From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The Internet Superserver The inetd server is a network daemon program that specializes in managing incoming network connections. It's configuration file tells it what program needs to be run when an incoming connection is received. Any service port may be configured for either of the tcp or udp protcols. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
talk to another user From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The ping utility from netkit The ping command sends ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to a host in order to test if the host is reachable via the network. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME network LEDs applet NetLeds is a GNOME applet that displays LEDs from a network device. It can display RX, TX, collision and error. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A 32-bit value, similar to a IP address, that determines how a an IP address is separated into subnet address and host address. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
helps figure out network masks This is a tiny program handy if you work with firewalls or routers or are a network admin of sorts. It can determine the smallest set of network masks to specify a range of hosts. It can also convert between common IP netmask and address formats. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
3-D Multiplayer Combat Game This is a 3-D multiplayer game for X. You can play by yourself, use computerized players ("bots"), or you can use a TCP/IP network and play against other players. Be sure to read the documentation that will be installed in /usr/share/doc/netmaze/README.Debian From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
the Network Object agent daemon The Network Objects package provides a simple but powerful facility for remote method invocation in the context of Modula-3. Under Network Objects, all subtypes of the object type NetObj.T are treated specially in that they can be passed to remote address spaces by reference. This remote reference appears at the destination as a surrogate object which is a subtype of the original object type. If the original type has methods, these methods can be remotely invoked through the surrogate. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NETwork Performing Analysis Reporting System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphics conversion tools. Netpbm is a toolkit for manipulation of graphic images, including conversion of images between a variety of different formats. There are over 220 separate tools in the package including converters for more than 80 graphics formats. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The netpbm package contains a library of functions that support programs for handling various graphics file formats, including .pbm (portable bitmaps), .pgm (portable graymaps), .pnm (portable anymaps),.ppm (portable pixmaps), and others. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A network performance tool using LAM MPI NetPIPE is a protocol independent performance tool that encapsulates the best of ttcp and netperf and visually represents the network performance under a variety of conditions. By taking the end-to-end application view of a network, NetPIPE clearly shows the overhead associated with different protocol layers. NetPIPE answers such questions as: how soon will a given data block of size k arrive at its destination? Which network and protocol will transmit size k blocks the fastest? What is a given network's effective maximum throughput and saturation level? Does there exist a block size k for which the throughput is maximized? How much communication overhead is due to the network communication protocol layer(s)? How quickly will a small (< 1 kbyte) control message arrive, and which network and protocol are best for this purpose? This package measures network performance using the MPI protocol, a Message Passing Interface frequently used in parallel processing, and which uses in turn TCP as its underlying transport. The implementation of the MPI standard used by this package is that provided by the lam set of packages. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A network performance tool using MPICH MPI NetPIPE is a protocol independent performance tool that encapsulates the best of ttcp and netperf and visually represents the network performance under a variety of conditions. By taking the end-to-end application view of a network, NetPIPE clearly shows the overhead associated with different protocol layers. NetPIPE answers such questions as: how soon will a given data block of size k arrive at its destination? Which network and protocol will transmit size k blocks the fastest? What is a given network's effective maximum throughput and saturation level? Does there exist a block size k for which the throughput is maximized? How much communication overhead is due to the network communication protocol layer(s)? How quickly will a small (< 1 kbyte) control message arrive, and which network and protocol are best for this purpose? This package measures network performance using the MPI protocol, a Message Passing Interface frequently used in parallel processing, and which uses in turn TCP as its underlying transport. The implementation of the MPI standard used by this package is that provided by the mpich package. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A network performance tool using PVM NetPIPE is a protocol independent performance tool that encapsulates the best of ttcp and netperf and visually represents the network performance under a variety of conditions. By taking the end-to-end application view of a network, NetPIPE clearly shows the overhead associated with different protocol layers. NetPIPE answers such questions as: how soon will a given data block of size k arrive at its destination? Which network and protocol will transmit size k blocks the fastest? What is a given network's effective maximum throughput and saturation level? Does there exist a block size k for which the throughput is maximized? How much communication overhead is due to the network communication protocol layer(s)? How quickly will a small (< 1 kbyte) control message arrive, and which network and protocol are best for this purpose? This package measures network performance using the PVM protocol, a Parallel Virtual Machine interface frequently used in parallel processing, and which uses in turn TCP as its underlying transport. PVM support is provided in its own separate pvm package on Debian systems. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A network performance tool using the TCP protocol NetPIPE is a protocol independent performance tool that encapsulates the best of ttcp and netperf and visually represents the network performance under a variety of conditions. By taking the end-to-end application view of a network, NetPIPE clearly shows the overhead associated with different protocol layers. NetPIPE answers such questions as: how soon will a given data block of size k arrive at its destination? Which network and protocol will transmit size k blocks the fastest? What is a given network's effective maximum throughput and saturation level? Does there exist a block size k for which the throughput is maximized? How much communication overhead is due to the network communication protocol layer(s)? How quickly will a small (< 1 kbyte) control message arrive, and which network and protocol are best for this purpose? This package uses a raw TCP protocol to measure network performance. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network server for `plan' Plan is a schedule planner based on X/Motif. Netplan adds to plan multiuser capability using an IP server. WARNING: the best level of authentication offered by netplan in this version is identd. That's quite weak, so watch the manpage and tune the config carefully. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A free, networked version of T*tris Netris is a free, networked variant of Tetris. One-player mode is a tad boring at the moment, because it never gets any faster, and there's no scoring. This will be rectified at some point. Two players can play against each other. If you fill two or three lines with one piece, your opponent gets respectively one or two unfilled lines at the bottom of his screen. If you fill four lines with one piece, your opponent will get four unfilled lines. This version at least partially supports robots. You can find the protocol description in the documentation, and a sample robot in the examples. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A host/service/network monitoring and management system. NetSaint is a host/service/network monitoring and management system. It has the following features: o Monitoring of network services (via TCP port, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.) o Plugin interface to allow for user-developed service checks o Contact notifications when problems occur and get resolved (via email, pager, or user-defined method) o Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events (for proactive problem resolution) o Web output (current status, notifications, problem history, log file, etc.) NetSaint was written in C and is designed to be easy to understand and modify to fit your own needs. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A WWW Browser and the name of a company. The Netscape (tm) browser was originally based on the Mosaic program developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). From Matisse http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Popular World-Wide-Web browser software (base support) Netscape (pronounced "Mozilla") is a graphical World-Wide-Web browser with many features. It supports advanced features of HTML and new technologies such as "Java" from Sun Microsystems. You will need the "ImageMagick" package installed if you wish to get in-line support of image types not directly supported by netscape. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A commercial GUI World-Wide-Web browser for X-Windows, MS-Windows and Macintosh, available from Netscape Communications. From KADOWKEV http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The network packet altering stream editor NetSED is small and handful utility designed to alter the contents of packets forwarded thru your network in real time. It is really useful for network hackers in following applications: * black-box protocol auditing - whenever there are two or more proprietary boxes communicating over undocumented protocol (by enforcing changes in ongoing transmissions, you will be able to test if tested application is secure), * fuzz-alike experiments, integrity tests - whenever you want to test stability of the application and see how it ensures data integrity, * other common applications - fooling other people, content filtering, etc etc - choose whatever you want to. It perfectly fits ngrep, netcat and tcpdump tools suite. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Choose the fastest server automatically. This is netselect, an ultrafast intelligent parallelizing binary-search implementation of "ping." You give it a (possibly very long) list of servers, and it chooses the fastest/closest one automatically. It's good for finding the fastest ftp.debian.org mirror, the least laggy IRC server, or the best Squid neighbour. This version also includes netselect-apt, which creates an apt sources.list file automatically from the huge list of Debian mirrors. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Netserva Dlite is a small 20mb downloadable Debian based distribution that comes with a basic set of pre-configured ISP-related services such as virtual web hosting, email and RADIUS. All client authentication is via MySQL so normal user shell accounts are not required. The system, in theory, could scale to supporting millions of users. The latest update was on February 2, 2002. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Slang console based client for the NetSpades spades game. This is a console/slang based client for Netspades, you will require a client To be able to play netspades. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National Electronic Telecommunication Surveillance System (USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Print network connections, routing tables, interface statistics, masquerade connections, and multicast memberships From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NetStation is a Linux distribution for diskless thin client terminals using standard x86 hardware. It can boot from network using Etherboot and connect to an application server using VNC, RDP, X11 or SSH. The initial release, NetStation 0.1 (alpha), is dated August 28, 2001. Development version 0.8.2 was released June 6, 2002. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Networked version of Tic Tac Toe for the console NetToe is a console-based version of the classic game "Tic Tac Toe". It's playable against computer AI, a player on the same machine or with another player over the network. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Netule has created three new Linux distributions, which are now available for download. The EM-I or Email Module I is a full featured Email Server based on Sendmail; the WM-I or Web Module I is a vastly simplified Web Server based on Apache; and the FM-I or Firewall Module I is released in partnership with Astaro Security Linux. Netule products are a combination of open and closed source and are available bundled with hardware. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A group of computers that are connected in some fashion. Most school networks are known as LANs, or Local Area Networks, because they are networks linking computers in one small area. The Internet could be referred to as a WAN, or a Wide Area Network, because it connects computers in more than one local area. It is also a series of points connected by physical or virtual connects. From Glossary of Distance Education and Internet Terminology http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A group of interconnected computers and their connecting cables and hardware. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Any time you connect 2 or more computers together so that they can share resources, you have a computer network. Connect 2 or more networks together and you have an internet. From Matisse http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Networking method in which internal network hosts, which use private IP addresses access public (Internet) hosts through a gateway that tags packets for routing. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
See network interface card (NIC). From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A protocol used to access files over a network regardless of machine, operating system, or architecture. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Client-server protocol that tracks, manages, and authenticates users and host names on a network. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
An adapter that lets you connect a network cable to a microcomputer. The card includes encoding and decoding circuitry and a receptacle for a network cable connection. Because data is transmitted more rapidly within the computer's internal bus, a network interface card allows the network to operate at higher speeds than it would if delayed by the serial port. Networks such as Ethernet and ARCnet that use interface cards can transmit information much faster than networks such as AppleTalk which uses serial ports. From QUECID http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A hardware component that initiates and manages network connections. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
An administrative and technical coordination office that is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a local, regional, or national Internet backbone see service. From QUECID http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The method used to regulate a workstation's access to a computer network to prevent data collision. Examples include carrier sense multiple access with collision detection (CSMA/CD) and token passing. From QUECID http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Add new CORBA object From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
update /etc/aliases database From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
/n[y]oo'bee/ n. [very common; orig. from British public-school and military slang variant of `new boy'] A Usenet neophyte. This term surfaced in the newsgroup talk.bizarre but is now in wide use (the combination "clueless newbie" is especially common). Criteria for being considered a newbie vary wildly; a person can be called a newbie in one newsgroup while remaining a respected regular in another. The label `newbie' is sometimes applied as a serious insult to a person who has been around Usenet for a long time but who carefully hides all evidence of having a clue. See B1FF; see also gnubie. From Jargon Dictionary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Documentation by and for newbies This is a snapshot of the documentation currently being developed by The Newbiedoc Project. See http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net for the most recent version, or if you want to join the team. Current release includes: - Introduction to 'apt-get' - DocBook guides and documentation for writing doc for Newbiedoc - Using 'grep' - Installing and configuring hardware - Finding help on a Debian system - Text editors: JOE and vi - Compiling kernels the Debian way - Managing processes - Using runlevels - Configuring exim The documentation will be installed in /usr/share/doc/newbiedoc, and newbiedoc(1) is a script that starts a browser on the newbiedoc collection. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
compare file modification times From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Change group ID From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
/n[y]oo'li:n/ n. 1. [techspeak, primarily Unix] The ASCII LF character (0001010), used under Unix as a text line terminator. Though the term `newline' appears in ASCII standards, it never caught on in the general computing world before Unix. 2. More generally, any magic character, character sequence, or operation (like Pascal's writeln procedure) required to terminate a text record or separate lines. See crlf, terpri. From Jargon Dictionary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Netware Early Warning System (Novell, Netware) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Networked Extensible Windowing System (Sun), "NeWS" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Contains information about new features and changes for the layman about this package. From Rute-Users-Guide http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Create HTML with dynamic information from the net NewsClipper is an information integrator. It creates a custom web page from a template HTML file with special tags, replacing those tags with dynamic information acquired from the internet. It was previously known as DailyUpdate. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Get news with the newnews command from a server The Newsflash program retrieves news articles via NNTP from one server and delivers them to another. It requires at least read-only permissions on the remote server, and needs to have peer permissions on the local server. It works well with INN, but should also work with any other RFC977 compliant news software. Newsflash's highly parallel design is optimized for throughput, which makes quite a difference to INN's nntpget and the like. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A newsgroup is a notice board that everyone in the world can see. There are tens of thousands of newsgroups and each group is unique in the world. The client software you use to read a newsgroup is called a news reader (or news client). rtin is a popular text mode reader, while netscape is graphical. pan is an excellent graphical news reader that I use. Newsgroups are named like Internet hosts. One you might be interested in is comp.os.linux.announce. The comp is the broadest subject description for computers; os stands for operating systems; and so on. Many other linux newsgroups are devoted to various LINUX issues. Newsgroups servers are big hungry beasts. They form a tree-like structure on the Internet. When you send mail to a newsgroup it takes about a day or so for the mail you sent to propagate to every other server in the world. Likewise, you can see a list of all the messages posted to each newsgroup by anyone anywhere. What's the difference between a newsgroup and a mailing list? The advantage of a newsgroup is that you don't have to download the messages you are not interested in. If you are on a mailing list, you get all the mail sent to the list. With a newsgroup you can look at the message list and retrieve only the messages you are interested in. Why not just put the mailing list on a web page? If you did, then everyone in the world would have to go over international links to get to the web page. It would load the server in proportion to the number of subscribers. This is exactly what SlashDot is. However, your newsgroup server is local, so you retrieve mail over a faster link and save Internet traffic. From Rute-Users-Guide http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
These are the bulletin boards of the Internet. There are around 20,000 groups covering every subject under the sun. Most IAPs have a newsgroup server which periodically takes all new messages from a newsgroup feed and adds the messages which have been posted by its own users. To access the newsgroups stored on your IAPs newsgroup server you need a newsreader program. From Glossary of Distance Education and Internet Terminology http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Usenet binary autoposter Using newspost, it is a one command job to uuencode and post as many binary files as you like to your favorite newsgroup. It supports all the features you'd expect from a binary autoposter, including authentication, posting to multiple newsgroups (crossposting), and all the rest. And of course you can save your settings as default so you don't have to type in your news server every time. In addition, I added a couple cool things, like posting text prefixes, and autocreating and posting sfv files. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A program for reading, downloading, and replying to the newsgroup messages you want. See also USENET. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
An NNTP client for posting and fetching news NewsX is an NNTP client for Unix. It will connect to a remote NNTP server and post outgoing articles batched by the news system, as well as fetch incoming articles. It provides the NNTP capabilities required for small local news spools on installations with NNTP access only through limited ISP accounts. It works well via a dialup SLIP/PPP connection. It seems to be faster than using suck over a modem link. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NeWS Terminal, "NeWT" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Newt is a programming library for color text mode, widget-based user interfaces. Newt can be used to add stacked windows, entry widgets, checkboxes, radio buttons, labels, plain text fields, scrollbars, etc., to text mode user interfaces. This package also contains the shared library needed by programs built with newt, as well as a/usr/bin/dialog replacement called whiptail. Newt is based on the slang library. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
update and create new users in batch From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
text editors From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NEw eXtended Technology, "NeXT" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Name Field Address (Forth) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Non-determistic Finite-state Automation From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Non Facilities-Associated Signaling (ISDN, PRI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Near Field Recording [technology] From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Facilities Services From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network File System (Sun, Unix, RFC 1813) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NFS is the UNIX equivalent of SMB. It is a way through which different machines can import and export local files between each other. Like SMB though, NFS sends information including user passwords unencrypted, so it's best to limit its usage to within your local network. The Network File System (NFS) was developed to allow machines to mount a disk partition on a remote machine as if it were on a local hard drive. This allows for fast, seamless sharing of files across a network. It also gives the potential for unwanted people to access your hard drive over the network (and thereby possibly read your email and delete all your files as well as break into your system) if you set it up incorrectly. So please read the Security section of this document carefully if you intend to implement an NFS setup. There are other systems that provide similar functionality to NFS. Samba (http://www.samba.org) provides file services to Windows clients. The Andrew File System from IBM (http://www.transarc.com/Product/EFS/AFS/index.html), recently open-sourced, provides a file sharing mechanism with some additional security and performance features. The Coda File System (http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/) is still in development as of this writing but is designed to work well with disconnected clients. Many of the features of the Andrew and Coda file systems are slated for inclusion in the next version of NFS (Version 4) (http://www.nfsv4.org). The advantage of NFS today is that it is mature, standard, well understood, and supported robustly across a variety of platforms. From NFS-HOWTO http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
see network file system (NFS). From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NFS support files common to client and server Use this package on any machine that does NFS either as client or server. Programs included: lockd, statd, showmount, and nfsstat. Upstream: SourceForge project "nfs", CVS module nfs-utils. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Kernel NFS server support Use this package if you have a fairly recent kernel (2.2.13 or better) and you want to use the kernel-mode NFS server. The user-mode NFS server in the "nfs-server" package is slower but more featureful and easier to debug than the kernel-mode server. Upstream: SourceForge project "nfs", CVS module nfs-utils. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
User space NFS server. This package contains all necessary programs to make your Linux machine act as an NFS server, being an NFS daemon (rpc.nfsd), a mount daemon (rpc.mountd). Unlike other NFS daemons, this NFS server runs entirely in user space. This makes it a tad slower than other NFS implementations, and also introduces some awkwardnesses in the semantics (for instance, moving a file to a different directory will render its file handle invalid). From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The nfs-utils package provides a daemon for the kernel NFS server and related tools, which provides a much higher level of performance than the traditional Linux NFS server used by most users.This package also contains the showmount program. Showmount queries the mount daemon on a remote host for information about the NFS (Network File System) server on the remote host. For example, showmount can display the clients which are mounted on that host. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The nfs-utils package provides a daemon for the kernel NFS server andrelated tools, which provides a much higher level of performance than thetraditional Linux NFS server used by most users.This package also contains the showmount program. Showmount queries themount daemon on a remote host for information about the NFS (Network FileSystem) server on the remote host. For example, showmount can display theclients which are mounted on that host. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Allow clients to boot over the network. This package help you to set up your host to allow clients to boot over nfs. This package should be installed on the server so that the clients can connect to it. The package contains no server itself, but recommends all packages that you will need in order to make nfsrooted clients to work. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Prepares your image for nfs boot. This package sets up your debian image to be booted from a nfs server. There are a couple of things that are needed to do this so that the different hosts do not conflict with each other. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Netware File Service Protocol (Novell, Netware) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
print NFS statistics From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network File Transfer (DNA, DEC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NewFoundland Time [-0330] (TZ, NDT) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Ng is Nihongo Mg, MicroGnuEmacs. It is a small lightweight Emacs-like editor. It can handle both Latin and CJK. This package contains documents and a wrapper script. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
New Generation Desktop Design (Mitsubishi) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Not-Greater-or-Equal From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
auto-resuming command line nntp file grabber nget is a command line NNTP file grabber. It automatically pieces together multipart postings for easy retrieval, even substituting parts from multiple servers. It handles disconnects gracefully, resuming after the last part successfully downloaded. nget also caches header data for quick access. Home Page: http://www.azstarnet.com/~donut/programs/nget.html From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
print out string using translation with singular/plural From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
translate message and choose plural form From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Nederlands Genootschap for Informatica (org., Netherlands) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Next Generation Input / Output (I/O) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
grep for network traffic ngrep strives to provide most of GNU grep's common features, applying them to the network layer. ngrep is a pcap-aware tool that will allow you to specify extended regular expressions to match against data payloads of packets. It currently recognizes TCP, UDP and ICMP across Ethernet, PPP, SLIP and null interfaces, and understands bpf filter logic in the same fashion as more common packet sniffing tools, such as tcpdump and snoop. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Non-Government Standard (USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The NGS JavaScript interpreter js is an LGPL implementation of JavaScript/ECMAScript for use as a standalone scripting language. It is written from scratch instead of being a child of the Mozilla offering. It is currently under development, and has had nowhere near as much testing as other scripting languages (Perl comes to mind...). Please be forewarned. More information is available at js' homepage, http://www.bbassett.net/njs. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Non-Government Standards Body From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
NFS benchmark program. Upstream: SourceForge project "nfs", CVS module nfs-utils. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
[NBMA] Next Hop Resolution Protocol (X.25, ATM, NBMA, IETF) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
National HPCC Software Exchange (USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Network Interconnect / Interface From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Normenausschuss Informationsverarbeitungssysteme (org., DIN)