Valuable News – 2018/07/20

Minio has been ported to IBM POWER architecture.
https://twitter.com/rpsene/status/1017451787828285441

Extend loader(8) geli(8) support to all architectures and all disk-like devices on FreeBSD thanks to Microchip.
https://twitter.com/FreeBSDHelp/status/1018708223350587392

Tribblix 0m20.5 Prerelease.
https://tribblix.blogspot.com/2018/07/changes-in-0m205-prerelease.html

The v9os is server-only IPS-based minimal SPARC Illumos distribution.
http://milax.fi/v9os.html

Rust implementation of em(4) Intel e1000 NIC driver up and running rem0.
https://twitter.com/johalun/status/983645780509712384

Effect of Sleep on Happiness – Complete Analysis.
https://www.trackinghappiness.com/effect-sleep-happiness/

Setup FreeNAS 11.1 with Active Directory on Windows Server 2016.
https://twitter.com/TomLawrenceTech/status/1019331493091528705
https://youtu.be/pGI-6RjB_IU

SoloBSD 11.2-STABLE-0715 based on latest HardenedBSD 1100056 Released.
https://www.solobsd.org/index.php/2018/07/15/solobsd-11-2-stable-0715/

Minimalistic SSH server TinySSH implements only subset of SSHv2 features.
https://tinyssh.org/

FreeNAS 11.2-BETA1 Available.
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/library/freenas-11-2-beta1/

NomadBSD now tracked on DistroWatch.
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=nomadbsd
https://twitter.com/DistroWatch/status/1019734061424750592

Oracle Solaris 11.4 Open Beta Refresh 2 Available.
https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/oracle-solaris-114-open-beta-refresh-2

Future of SPARC and Solaris is Cloudy.
https://searchoracle.techtarget.com/feature/The-future-of-SPARC-Solaris-is-cloudy-in-multiple-ways

OPNsense 18.1.12 Available.
https://www.freebsdnews.com/2018/07/17/opnsense-18-1-12-is-available/

FreeBSD now allows to run ntpd(8) as non-root user with ntpd uid/gid.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=336525

FreeNAS Hardware Recommendations Guide.
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/hardware-recommendations-guide-discussion-thread.46494/
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?resources/hardware-recommendations-guide.12/download&version=58

X.org threatened by Wayland decided to expand its market by opening a shopping centre.
https://twitter.com/barisione/status/1019317407276511234

Configure OpenBGPD to announce VMs virtual networks.
https://empt1e.blogspot.com/2018/06/configuring-openbgpd-to-announce-vms.html

NetBSD 8.0 ISO Available.
ftp://iso.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/iso/8.0/

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