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Working with PDF files on Linux

Network World

It became an open ISO standard in 2015. PDF tools on Linux Most if not all Linux distributions provide PDF viewers and tools that allow saving documents as PDF files, but not necessarily PDF editors. In addition, Foxit PDF Reader is free and available for Linux. using a PDF editor).

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Open-sourced Technology Levels the Playing Field Between Tech Giants and Startups

CTOvision

The contest between proprietary technology and open source has been ongoing for a decade.Today, some of the most premium technology is open-sourced and free. Even Google's highly prized Borg software is becoming open-sourced. Government push for open source software.

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what every open source project needs

SPF13

In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to Wikipedia, open source is everywhere, but how does one succeed in it? This presentation was delivered at sinfo.org in Feb 2015. What Every Successful Open Source Project Needs. Transcript. Why Start a Project ?

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Open vSwitch Now a Linux Foundation Project

Scott Lowe

News emerged today that Open vSwitch (OVS) has formally moved over to the Linux Foundation. The project can finally shed itself of the (unfair) claims that the governance under Nicira (and later VMware) wasn’t “open enough.” For more information, refer to the official Linux Foundation press release.

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The Linux Migration: Other Users’ Stories, Part 4

Scott Lowe

This post is part of a series of posts sharing other users’ stories about their migration to Linux as their primary desktop OS. As I mentioned in part 1 of the series , there seemed to be quite a bit of pent-up interest in using Linux as your primary desktop OS. Q: Why did you switch to Linux? is awesome).

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Liveblog: DockerCon 2015 Day 2 General Session

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog from the day 2 general session at DockerCon 2015. Johnston points out that one of the most popular images on the Docker Hub is the open source Docker registry (6.5 Here’s what I was able to capture. On-premise registry. Networking. Directory integration. million downloads).

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SFTS012: Designing a Trusted Cloud with OpenStack

Scott Lowe

The speaker for the session is Vin Sharma, who helps lead open source software strategies at Intel. This means that there must be some sort of “driving force,” such as a vendor or organization, that helps shape and focus open source development in the right development.

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