Documentation/Maemo Documentation Guidelines/Glossary

API: Application Programming Interface, providing source code level compatibility.
ESbox: Eclipse product implementing integration between Eclipse IDE and Maemo SDK.
GUI: Graphical User Interface.
IP: Internet Protocol is a protocol used for communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork.
LaTeX: is a document markup language and document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program.
Maemo: Software platform for mobile devices developed by Nokia, based on GNU/Linux and GNOME/GTK+ technologies. It includes proprietary components to make it work on the Nokia Maemo compatible device.
maemo.org: Developer community web site maintained by Nokia, main point of reference for open source and third-party developers in general.
Mica: Maemo IDE Common Architecture, Eclipse plugin development framework used by ESbox, PluThon and other Maemo Eclipse products.
OS: Operating System or sometimes Open Source.
PluThon: Eclipse product implementing on-device Python development environment.
Scratchbox: cross-compilation toolkit designed to make embedded Linux application development easier and to cross-compile an entire Linux distribution.
SDK: Software Development Kit.
TeX: is a typesetting system that allows anybody to produce high-quality books using a reasonable amount of effort, and to provide a system that would give the exact same results on all computers.
UI: User Interface.
XML: eXtensible Markup Language.

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