Our favorite Linux replacements for antiquated open source tools
Our favorite Linux replacements for antiquated open source tools Opensource.com Wed, 08/10/2022 – 03:00 1 reader likes this 1 reader likes this Here at Opensource.com, we thought it would be interesting to survey some of our authors to get a feel for what tools they feel are antiquated (but perhaps still useful!) and what they think of the replacement utilities. What follows is a series of responses and a bit of fun, too. We...
Create beautiful PDFs in LaTeX
Create beautiful PDFs in LaTeX Jim Hall Wed, 08/10/2022 – 03:00 1 reader likes this 1 reader likes this The LaTeX document preparation system has an interesting history. When programmer Don Knuth wrote his first book, The Art of Computer Programming, in 1968, it was produced using an old-style printing press method. When he published the second edition in 1976, the publisher had moved to modern phototypesetting. Knuth was...
A guide to JVM interpretation and compilation
A guide to JVM interpretation and compilation Jayashree Hutt… Tue, 08/09/2022 – 10:36 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like Java is a platform-independent language. Programs are converted to bytecode after compilation. This bytecode gets converted to machine code at runtime. An interpreter emulates the execution of bytecode instructions for the abstract machine on a specific physical machine. Just-in-time (JIT)...
