I see a lot of acronyms, abbreviations and shorthand bandied about in my newbie question posts and I need some help defining some terms that I am unfamiliar with. Here they are if you can help, please feel free to define, explain and elaborate.

1) What's the difference between a "console" and a "terminal"?
2) What is "Getty" and "virtual terminal"?
3) What is "UXTerm", "XTerm" and "Unicode"?
4) What are the differnces between "LX Terminal", "GNOME-Terminal", "Xfce4-Terminal", and "Konsole"?
5) What is "DPI", "EDID" and "Xorg.conf"?
6) What is "TTY"?
7) What is the difference between "WM", "Tiling Window Manager" and "DE"?
8) What is a "meta-package"?
9) What is "GDM"?
10) What is "tasksel"?
11) Where do I get the so called "Ubuntu mini distro" I keep hearing about?
12) What is the difference between "X", "Xorg" and "X server"?
13) What is "El Torito"?

Thank you

Run 'apropos console; man tty; man pty'.


Run 'apropos getty; man -a *getty' (exit the last command with plain "q" for the next manual page).


Run 'apropos terminal' and pick one, say 'man xterm'.


Check their manual pages /usr/share/doc/* info or run them.


Dots Per Inch, Extended Display Identification Data and 'man Xorg; man Xserver'.


See 1st q.


DE means Desktop Environment. WM means Window Manager. For more on tiling affliction please see Wikipedia.


See 'apropos gdm; man gdm'.


See 'man tasksel'.


See q5.


It's like Judge Dredd's Double Whammy: for when one just doesn't cut it.
(Or see the 'net for CDROM boot standards, 2"88 floppies and such.)

1) http://www.acronymfinder.com/
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/
3) https://www.google.com
4) man "word"/info "word"
5) apropos "word"

Seriously, when I see a word or phrase I don't understand, I first try to research it for myself. Then if I can't find the answer after a reasonable effort, I'll ask.