Software and Tools: Web Photo Gallery, sed, System Administration, YouTube-DL, and util-linux v2.39
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11 Best Free and Open Source Web Photo Gallery Solutions
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 11 of the most useful open source web photo gallery software.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: sed
This article spotlights alternative open source tools to sed, a stream editor for filtering and transforming text.
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Top Tools Every System Administrator Must Have
As a system administrator, your job involves managing and maintaining the IT infrastructure of an organization. You are responsible for ensuring that the network, servers, and applications are running smoothly, and any issues that arise are resolved promptly. To accomplish this, you need the right set of tools in your arsenal.
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YouTube-DL Update button fixed
Alfons reported that the "Update" button in the YouTube downloader (see Internet menu), which downloads the latest 'youtube-dl' script, doesn't work.
Thanks for reporting that, it is fixed. It is a PET package, in the 'noarch' repository, now 'youtubedl-gui-0.4.3.pet', not yet uploaded. Anyway, it will be in the next release of Easy.
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Karel Zak: util-linux v2.39: Improved Mount Interface and Exciting Updates
This release comes with dramatic changes, and the most noticeable change is the support for a new kernel mount API in libmount.
The classic mount(2) system call has been with us since the early days of Linux. This interface is quite simple: you specify the source, target, filesystem options, mount flags, and ask the kernel to do the job. Unfortunately, the interface is too simplistic. These days, attaching a filesystem requires multiple steps, and it's important for userspace to assist in these steps and receive feedback from the kernel after each one.