03-26-2011
In the old days, we only used the term "host" and it basically meant a computer connected to a network. Host is the term used in official TCP/IP documents. Before DNS we had a hosts file to list the hosts. In TCP/IP language, a "host" just sends and receives IP based packets. A "router" has multiple network connections and may forward TCP/IP from one connection to another. The TCP/IP documents list requirements for hosts and requirements for routers. One machine could be both a router and host and would need to fufill the requirements for both. So far this is the official TCP/IP documentation.
But here in the 21st century, things have evolved beyond what we envisioned when the Internet was first designed. My television has an IP address and is on the Internet. Ditto for my Blu-Ray player. People balk at calling a TV a "host". So the term End-System was devised. I believe that people who use the term End-System believe that "hosts" are a subset of "end-systems" and "hosts" mean traditional computers.
But I'm not competely sure I have it right. I'm old-school and I don't use "End System". It doesn't bother me to call my TV a host.
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DEBCONF-MERGETEMPLATE(1) Debconf DEBCONF-MERGETEMPLATE(1)
NAME
debconf-mergetemplate - merge together multiple debconf template files
SYNOPSIS
debconf-mergetemplate [options] [templates.ll ...] templates
DESCRIPTION
Note: This utility is deprecated. You should switch to using po-debconf's po2debconf program.
This program is useful if you have multiple debconf templates files which you want to merge together into one big file. All the specified
files will be read in, merged, and output to standard output.
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several other files provided by the translators. These files will have translated fields in them, and maybe the translators left in the
english versions of the fields they translated, for their reference.
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OPTIONS
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SEE ALSO
debconf-getlang(1)
AUTHOR
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2012-09-10 DEBCONF-MERGETEMPLATE(1)