UNIX
In Other BSDs for 2018/07/21.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2018/07/21/21525.html
NetBSD 8.0 Released.
https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-8/NetBSD-8.0.html
Changes to NetBSD release support policy.
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2018/07/25/msg000290.html
ZFS Zpool Checkpoints.
http://oshogbo.vexillium.org/blog/46/
Hidden Gems of XTERM.
https://lukas.zapletalovi.com/2013/07/hidden-gems-of-xterm.html
Less Known Solaris XTerm Features.
https://twitter.com/vmisev/status/1021525740406403073
https://twitter.com/vmisev/status/1021513491532926983
Extend FreeBSD loader(8) geli support to all architectures and all disk-like devices.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=336252
Scripts to create HardenedBSD ISO and KVM image for SmartOS and Triton.
https://github.com/wasted/hardenedbsd-kvm-image-builder
Antergos Linux allows root (/) on ZFS install from installer but /boot remains EXT4.
https://antergos.com/
Slackware Linux hit 25 years recently.
http://www.slackware.com/announce/1.0.php
Configure FreeBSD Jails with vnet (VIMAGE) and ZFS.
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-configure-a-freebsd-jail-with-vnet-and-zfs/
FreeBSD on ARM64.
https://community.online.net/t/freebsd-on-arm64/6678
ZFS for Linux.
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/zfs-linux
Colored cal(1) output colored with grep(1).
https://twitter.com/vermaden/status/1021690491476340737
Solaris had/have 11 years old privilege escalation bug.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/24/oracle_repatch_old_solaris_bug/
OPNsense 18.1.13 Released.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=9237.0
Tribblix m20.5 (ami-7cf2181b) and LX-enabled OmniTribblix m20.5 (ami-90fb11f7) available in the AWS London (eu-west-2) region.
http://www.tribblix.org/aws.html
Because Computers | BSD Now 2^8.
http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/126261/because-computers-bsd-now-28/
ZFS Private Beta on Citus Cloud.
https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2018/07/19/ZFS-beta-on-citus-cloud/
Oracle Solaris 11.4 beta progress from 32bit to 64bit.
https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/oracle-solaris-114-beta-progress-on-lp64-conversion-v2
DragonFly BSD will implement new rc(8) mechanism to run scripts only once.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2018/07/25/21549.html
OmniOSce r151026 gets automatic boot-environment naming.
https://omniosce.org/article/auto-be-name
Expose SmartOS metadata to CFEngine.
https://github.com/bahamat/cfengine-smartos-metadata/blob/master/README.md
Sysadmin Guide to Ansible – How to Simplify Tasks.
https://opensource.com/article/18/7/sysadmin-tasks-ansible
More mitigations against speculative execution vulnerabilities from OpenBSD team.
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20180724072257
FreeBSD images now available for GCE (Google Cloud Engine).
https://googlecloudplatform.uservoice.com/forums/302595-compute-engine/suggestions/18618931-freebsd
https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/freebsd-cloud/freebsd-11
DTrace on Linux Update.
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/dtrace-on-linux%3a-an-update
NetBSD on the PineBook.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DjB7R23X4AIxr61.jpg:large
FreeBSD kernel module loading mechanism imported into Illumos.
http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/freebsd-head/sys/conf/kmod.mk
PBOY – small CLI tool to rename PDF files with useless names based on the suggestions found in file content and metadata.
https://github.com/2mol/pboy
Hardware
AMD 2018 Q2 Results – Best Quarter In 7 Years.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13121/amd-announces-q2-2018-results
Why Intel will never let owners control the ME.
https://www.devever.net/~hl/intelme
Tool for partial deblobbing of Intel ME/TXE firmware images.
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner
Intel x86 Considered Harmful by Joanna Rutkowska.
Click to access x86_harmful.pdf
Backblaze 2018 Q2 Hard Drive Stats.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-q2-2018/
Life
When We Eat or Dont Eat May Be Critical for Health.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/well/when-we-eat-or-dont-eat-may-be-critical-for-health.html
While We Sleep Our Mind Goes on an Amazing Journey.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/08/science-of-sleep/
Other
My favorite apps on F-Droid.
https://quaap.com/D/use-fdroid
Why I will never use Windows 8 or Windows 10.
https://www.devever.net/~hl/windows8
Exposing more of ICU to PostgreSQL.
https://postgresql.verite.pro/blog/2018/07/25/icu-extension.html
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