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Working with PDF files on Linux

Network World

The PDF (portable document format) standard was created in the 1990s by Adobe cofounder John Warnock to make it possible for people to share reliably formatted documents across a wide range of platforms. Today, you can save documents as PDF files from many applications (e.g., It became an open ISO standard in 2015. Why use PDFs?

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Key rules for Linux sysadmins

Network World

I spent more than 30 years managing Linux servers. Rule 1: Never do anything you can’t back out of Always be fully aware of the impact of the changes you are making on a Linux system, and know how to back out the changes if something goes wrong. Scripts should have enough comments to make them easy to read and, if necessary, modify.

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How to print from the Linux command line: double-sided, landscape and more

Network World

Getting your Linux system to send print jobs to your local printer might seem like a challenge, especially when you want to print double-sided or in landscape mode, but it’s really a lot easier than you might imagine. This setting represents the normal way that you would expect two-sided portrait documents to look. $

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How to encrypt compressed files the easy way from Windows, macOS, or Linux

Tech Republic Security

Learn to secure multiple documents by encrypting compressed files on various OSes using a password.

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‘An easy button to get off Windows’: Amazon’s new AI moves Microsoft apps to Linux

GeekWire

Matt Garman, AWS CEO, announces the new AI tool for migrating.NET applications to Linux at AWS re:Invent on Tuesday morning. In addition, the company announced new Amazon Q capabilities that use AI to help developers automatically generate unit tests, keep documentation up-to-date, and provide efficient code reviews.

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IBM wins UK lawsuit against LzLabs for mainframe intellectual property theft

Network World

IBM licensed its mainframe software to Winsopia beginning in 2013, according to the court documents. The aim of the SDM is to migrate existing applications which have been written to run on a mainframe and enable such programs to be run on the x86 runtime environment without recompilation, the judgement reads.

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Four Attributes of Openness in Modern Communications

CTOvision

I posit that there are four key attributes that define openness in this context: documented, standardized, open sourced and inclusive. A Beginning of Openness – Documented and Supported. There are numerous examples of open source software, but the most important is Linux and its family of drivers, utilities and applications.