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Working with PDF files on Linux

Network World

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. The variety of tools available for use on Linux systems as well as others is quite impressive.

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Linux Foundation Networking shares new AI projects, milestone releases

Network World

The Linux Foundations networking division (LF Networking) is continuing to grow both its mandate and project roster in 2025. For resolving complexity, LF Networking is creating super blueprints that serve as reference implementations for cloud-native network services.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 gains security, networking upgrades

Network World

Red Hat is out this week with the latest milestone update of its flagship Linux platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.x Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.x Firewalld is a commonly used Linux firewall service while notables provides filtering and classification of network packets.

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Linux Foundation’s L3AF brings zero-downtime updates to eBPF network management

Network World

The Linux Foundations networking division (LF Networking) is helping to address that challenge with the L3AF project, which is based on eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter ) technology. He explained that L3AF offers deep visibility into network infrastructure components that are usually hidden outside of the Linux kernel.

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New tweak to Linux kernel could cut data center power usage by up to 30%

Network World

An improvement to the way Linux handles network traffic, developed by researchers at Canadas University of Waterloo, could make data center applications run more efficiently and save energy at the same time. Waterloo professor Martin Karsten and Joe Damato, distinguished engineer at Fastly, developed the code approximately 30 lines.

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How to prevent fork bombs on your Linux development servers

Tech Republic Security

Learn how to protect your Linux server from the fork bomb denial-of-service attack with this video tutorial by Jack Wallen. The post How to prevent fork bombs on your Linux development servers appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Linux in your car: Red Hat’s milestone collaboration with exida

Network World

Red Hat today announced the Linux math library (libm.so While it may not be obvious to all of us, Linux is playing an increasingly important role in the automotive industry. In fact, even the car you’re driving today could be using Linux in some capacity. Open source places a huge role in the automotive use of Linux.

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