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Working with PDF files on Linux

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hyperlinks, buttons, and forms) that make them a good choice for creating interactive documents and presentations. 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.

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At long last, OpenStack (now known as OpenInfra Foundation) joins Linux Foundation

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One of the leading options was to join the Linux Foundation, but that didnt happen. Now, OpenStack and the OpenInfra Foundation are moving to the Linux Foundation. The Linux Foundation has emerged over the last 20 years to be the preeminent open-source organization for commercially viable technologies.

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

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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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5 reasons why 2025 will be the year of OpenTelemetry

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Take Linux or Kubernetes, for example. Since OTel doesnt store data or provide a way to analyze, query or present it, the telemetry that has been collected is then exported to a backend system that provides observability, network monitoring or application performance management. Others fall by the wayside remember the Ubuntu Phone?

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Displaying dates and times on Linux

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Displaying the current date The Linux date command is extremely versatile. Here are some examples: $ TZ=EST date Thu Jul 4 10:49:49 AM EST 2024 $ TZ=PDT date Thu Jul 4 03:50:45 PM PDT 2024 Epoch time The most unusual way to display the current time on Linux is to use the date +%s command.

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How to quickly deploy, run Linux applications as unikernels

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The resultant virtual image can then be booted and run without anything else being present. Any drivers, I/O routines and support libraries that are required are included in the single executable. And they will often run 10 to 20 times faster than a container. To read this article in full, please click here

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Viewing system performance details with the top command

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The Linux top command has been around since 1984, helping Linux admins gauge system performance and note which processes are using the most system resources. While viewing the top command’s output, you can alter the presentation of the data by using the keys described below: Press the Q key to quit.

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