Good professional work!
I’ve been doing a lot with sed recently and I found some helpful/handy examples in your doc.
I’d forgotten about the use of braces for commanp grouping and put it to use after reading your doc.
Thank you for your work.
Check prices on eBay… quite reasonable for used/refurbished Dell laptops…
I’ve had excellent service/performance running linux for 8+ years on several Dell E6500s, 8GB, core 2 duo, 15.6". Price on eBay today $75, $12.72 shipping.
Also run linux with excellent service/performance on an E6420 with 8GB, 14", E6530 & E6540, both with16GB, 4 core, 15.6".
An 8GB, 14", E6420 can be bought, including shipping, for less than $50
Excluding the E6420, all the systems I’m using have DVD R/W drives and backlit keyboards.
Haven’t had any driver or other problems with any of the systems running linux.
Mr. Anderson, Thank you for your analysis/work and well written treatise, on PID 0. I enjoyed learning more about Linux & Unix and a bit of history thereof as well.
Easy & quick install. I don’t recall the last time anything went wrong. Great performance with lots of useful tools developed by MX team. sysV by default - init freedom… you can boot systemd if desired and interesting… there’s an UNOFFICIAL init-diversity respin with 5 inits: sysVinit, systemd, runit, s6 & s6-66 selectable at boot menu:
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/mx-23-2-init-diversity-respin/ https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=79448
Been exclusively running MX with Openbox (OB) since early 2019 on my 6 home systems All run great without any issues.
Also remotely support 3 senior, 70+ (one is 85) , users. In 2021, using ‘live’ DVD, switched them to MX from Linux Mint with their assistance to initially install/config SSH, then used SSH & VNC to finish MX install. Took about 45 minutes per system. These seniors are just users, not in any way computer nuts; email, web, simple games (Mahjong, solitaire, etc.) and occasionally LO Writer & 1 uses LO Calc for home budget. They all adapted to MX quickly over a couple of days. I rarely get any support calls and they faithfully do upates without prodding from me. The Calc user occasionaly calls for assistance with… well… Calc.
I also run 3 MX VMs: 1 for banking, 1 for paying bills, 1 for managing investments, each is used specifically/exclusively for intended purpose. NO web browsing, games or installs, downloads only from sites relative to VM - account statements from bank on banking VM, etc.
Discovered MX-18.1 in 2019 by chance while on a rare ‘excursion’ into distro hopping. Installed MX & OB in a VM (good ol’ Virtualbox) in about 20 minutes, including the time adding/editing my OB config from my daily driver at the time, CrowZ. After a few days, switched all my systems to MX and haven’t considered using any other distro since.
I’ve tried many distros over 15 years. My favorite distro is #! (Crunchbang) which sadly is no longer available. When #! ended I switched to CrowZ, a Devuan spin using OB - obviously I prefer OB.
So yes, I like and run MX exclusively although I would switch to #! if the ‘original’ #! project ever resurrects.
Blue Skys, Green lights to all…
Rather than editing PDFs directly, might it be possible to use LibreOffice (LO) Writer? Write, with all the features/facilities of a document editor that will likely meet all your needs. When the document is complete, export as PDF and e-sign the PDF with LO as well…
LibreOffice is community driven and developed software project, not the product of an American company.
‘Bates’ numbering: LO Writer supports creating custom page numbering formats/styles.
e-sign: e-sign the PDF with LO as well, reference links below
Workflow
an example workflow might be:
References
https://knowledge.digicert.com/tutorials/sign-openoffice-libreoffice-documents https://duckduckgo.com/?q=libreoffice+pdf+esign&t=vivaldim&ia=web