Valuable News – 2018/08/04

UNIX

Non-Cross-DSO CFI enabled HardenedBSD 12-CURRENT/arm64 image for Pine64 LTS.
https://twitter.com/lattera/status/1023013287166926848

FreeBSD UEFI Secure Boot.
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd-uefi-secure-boot/

KSH Shell Completions.
https://github.com/qbit/dotfiles/blob/master/common/dot_ksh_completions

UNIX – The “Always On” OS.
UNIX®: The “Always On” OS

Polish BSD User Group videos/talks from #1 and #2 meetings.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWvDQaEHSULuCIVOOM66nYA/videos?sort=dd

FreeBSD – Chelsio N320E 10G Ethernet.
https://www.boris-tassou.fr/freebsd-chelsio-n320e/ [FRENCH]
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.boris-tassou.fr/freebsd-chelsio-n320e/ [ENGLISH]

Chicken Bit as ‘G-2 Mitigation’ on OpenBSD.
https://twitter.com/OpenBSD_stable/status/1023952724746854400

Haiku OS Working On Updated Drivers From FreeBSD.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Haiku-OS-July-2018

FreeBSD/i386 is now using LLD as bootstrap linker.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/336901

VIMAGE now enabled by default on FreeBSD 12-CURRENT/arm64.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=336915

First OpenWRT 18.06 release since merge with LEDE project.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenWRT-18.06-Released

FreeBSD Foundation 2018/07 Development Projects Update.
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/july-2018-development-projects-update/

FreeNAS 11.2-BETA2 Available.
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/library/freenas-11-2-beta2/

With security.jail.vmm_allowed its now possible to run bhyve(8) within FreeBSD jail(8).
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=337023

ZFS File Server.
https://aravindh.net/post/zfs_fileserver/

ZFS Performance.
https://aravindh.net/post/zfs_performance/

Improved ZFS performance on high IOPS workload by 12% for 8k record size on FreeBSD.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=337229

Reflection on one year usage of OpenBSD.
https://nanxiao.me/en/reflection-on-one-year-usage-of-openbsd/

The template user with PAM and login(1) on FreeBSD.
http://oshogbo.vexillium.org/blog/48

In Other BSDs for 2018/08/04.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2018/08/04/21594.html

FEMP stack on Amazon EC2.
https://staktrace.com/spout/entry.php?id=840

OpenBSD on an Apple iBook G4.
https://bobstechsite.com/openbsd-on-an-ibook-g4/

Hardware

Future of VIA x86 Processors.
https://www.cambus.net/the-future-of-via-x86-processors/

Rise of the Centaur.
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/riseofthecentaur

India first RISC-V based Chip is here.
http://www.geekdave.in/2018/07/indias-first-risc-v-is-here-linux-boots.html

DJ rig with two Amiga 1200.
http://cdm.link/2018/07/dj-mod-amiga-1200-commodore/

Apollo is Amiga Classic accelerator board code compatible Motorola M68K processor but is 3-4 times faster than fastest 68060.
http://www.apollo-accelerators.com/

Xfce 4.14 development and migration to Gtk3 is progressing well.
https://twitter.com/xfceofficial/status/1024979817953935361

Life

Melatonin – Much More Than You Wanted To Know.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/E4cKD9iTWHaE7f3AJ/melatonin-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know

Other

ReactOS is now able to boot from BTRFS.
https://reactos.org/blogs/gsoc-2018-booting-btrfs-works

Evolving the Firefox Brand.
https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/evolving-the-firefox-brand/