• Haitzler, Carsten "Raster"
  best known for programming the Enlightenment window manager, but he has also contributed to the GNOME project specifications
   
• half-duplex
  A communication mode that allows data to flow in only one direction at a time
   
• Hall, Jon "Maddog"
  Jon is famous for his vocal attendance of important Linux events. He is executive director of Linux International, formerly of DEC (Compaq)
   
• hard boot
  A boot initiated by hardware. This could be a computer power-up, a press of its reset button, or even a hardware glitch
   
• hard link
  One of several directory entries which refer to the same Unix file. A hard link is created with the "ln" (link) command
   
• Harrison, Geoff "Mandrake"
  a senior software engineer for VA Research. He's most commonly known as Mandrake, author of the mandrake.net "Current News" diary and the major contributor to the Enlightenment window manager
   
• high-level language
  computer language that can be used on many different computer systems. By contrast, a low-level language refers to specific hardware locations and is inseparable from a specific hardware architecture. Another name for low-level language is assembly language
   
• history
  In the C shell and the Korn shell, a list of command lines (or events) previously executed by a user
   
• Hohndel, Dirk
  head developer for XFree86, the project that has implemented a totally free and widely used version of the X Window System for Linux, BSD, and OS/2
   
• home directory
  the directory you are placed in immediately after you log in to the system
   
• host
  A physical or virtual device with a "host" internet address, like 123.2.3.4. That is, not a network address like 123.2.0.0 . Typically, the device is a network interface device like an Ethernet card or a PPP controlled serial interface. Often, a computer is connected via only one such device, and it is thus natural to speak of "host" and "computer" synonymously and it is often done
   
• HTML
  HyperText Markup Language: the underlying formatting for World-Wide-Web documents
   
• HTTP
  Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol
   
• Hughes, Phil
  Phil is the publisher of the Linux Journal, an extremely important Linux paper based publication
   
• Hurd
  The Hurd will be the foundation of the whole GNU system. It is built on top of the Mach 3.0 kernel, a free message-passing kernel developed by CMU. Mach's virtual memory management and message-passing facilities are extensively used by the Hurd. The GNU C Library will provide the Unix system call interface, and will call the Hurd for needed services it can't provide itself
   
• Hypertext
  A system of "live" documents where a text file contains references to other documents that can be followed, thus linking documents to other related materials. The best known example is HTML

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