The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX or BSD systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the Internet I just put it here so someone else can
Today the amount information that we get using various information streams is at massive overload. Thus one needs to focus only on what is important without the need to grep(1) the Internet everyday. Hence the idea of providing such information ‘bulk’ as I already do that grep(1).
UNIX
In Other BSDs for 2018/09/08.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2018/09/08/21755.html
Including optimized out kernel symbols in dtrace on FreeBSD.
https://farhan.codes/2018/08/16/including-optimized-out-kernel-symbols-in-dtrace-on-freebsd/
Lazy Reading for 2018/09/09.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2018/09/09/21750.html
NIH Package manager for pkgsrc.
http://pkgsrc.se/pkgtools/nih
OpenBSD on the Desktop: some thoughts.
https://blog.gsora.xyz/openbsd-on-the-desktop-some-thoughts/
Ansible modules for OpenBSD vmm(4).
https://github.com/jasperla/ansible-vmm
OpenBSD vmm(4) got qcow2 image support.
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=153646618113084&w=2
FreeBSD bootonly ISO failures PXE booting under UEFI.
FreeBSD Bootonly ISO failures PXE booting under UEFI
Dosbox-X is fork of DOSBox wth goal of accurate emulation for Windows 95/98/ME systems.
http://dosbox-x.com/
vm-bhyve with NAT on FreeBSD.
https://www.foxk.it/blog/2018-09-08_vm-bhyve/
FreeNAS 11.2-BETA3 Available.
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/library/freenas-11-2-beta3/
Nextcloud in FreeBSD Ports updated to 14.0.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=479446
New FreeNAS 11.2 Beta 3 Interface.
https://twitter.com/TomLawrenceTech/status/1039623935170682880
FreeBSD PKGng plugin for querying which package provides a particular file.
https://github.com/rosorio/pkg-provides
FreeBSD SA 18:12.elf.
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-18:12.elf.asc
FreeBSD EN 18:08.lazyfpu.
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-18:08.lazyfpu.asc
FreeBSD 12.x suspend/resume works on ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th Generation after BIOS 1.30 update and sleep state set to ‘Linux’.
https://twitter.com/lwhsu/status/1039711710913945601
FreeBSD 12.x amd64 has NUMA enabled for GENERIC/MINIMAL kernels.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2018-September/071168.html
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=338602
My FreeBSD packages are out of date, how do I fix that?
https://vincerants.com/my+freebsd+packages+are+out+of+date%2c+how+do+i+fix+that%3f
FreeBSD 12.0-ALPHA4 on Pinebook.
https://twitter.com/manuvadot/status/1039943151383977985
BSD Now 263 – Encrypt That Pool.
https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/127081/encrypt-that-pool-bsd-now-263/
RFC8446 compliant OpenSSL 1.1.1 landed in FreeBSD 12.0.
https://twitter.com/mzar_y/status/1040502530072096768
Today in History. Brought to You by UNIX.
https://akr.am/blog/posts/today-in-history-brought-to-you-by-unix
Remote Code Execution in Alpine Linux.
https://justi.cz/security/2018/09/13/alpine-apk-rce.html
There are 90% Linux and 9% BSD Systems in the TOR RELAYS.
https://www.torbsd.org/oostats/relays-bw-by-os.html
HardenedBSD 1100056.5 Available.
https://hardenedbsd.org/article/op/2018-09-14/stable-release-hardenedbsd-stable-11-stable-v11000565
Wine Development Release 3.16 Available.
https://www.winehq.org/announce/3.16
FreeBSD 12.0-ALPHA6 Available.
http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/
Hardware
Another Intel ME Vulnerability.
https://twitter.com/h0t_max/status/1039597102693851136
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00125.html
Intel Power Management Controller (PMC) Security Advisory.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00131.html
Seagate BarraCuda Pro 14TB HDD Review – Massive Storage for Desktops.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13340/seagate-barracuda-pro-14tb-hdd-review/
The rv8 is 1.9.1 privileged specification RISC-V emulator and x86-64 binary translator.
https://rv8.io/
https://github.com/rv8-io/rv8
Custom 51nb made ThinkPad X210 with Kaby Lake QUAD-CORE i5-8250, 1920×1200 IPS screen and 16GB RAM.
https://twitter.com/jcs/status/1039624550168842241
https://www.51nb.com/mb/
AMD EPYC 32 Core 7551P Benchmarks and Review.
https://twitter.com/ServeTheHome/status/1039656584496873473
https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-7551p-benchmarks-and-review-a-32-core-value-monster/
How Intel Xeon Platinum is Marketing Headache versus AMD EPYC Prices.
https://www.servethehome.com/how-the-intel-xeon-platinum-is-a-marketing-headache/
Lenovo latest Yoga laptop with new ARM CPU and 25 hour battery life.
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/8/30/17799382/lenovo-yoga-c630-wos-features-specs-price-release-date-battery-life-ifa-2018
34C3: Hacking into a CPU Microcode.
34C3: Hacking into a CPU’s Microcode
Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack.
This is why checksumming and healing of data in ZFS is that much important.
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/fast08/tech/full_papers/bairavasundaram/bairavasundaram_html/index.html
The x86 finds its way into your iPhone.
https://lcq2.github.io/x86_iphone/
Life
So We Got Tracked Anyway.
https://youbroketheinternet.org/trackedanyway
Real Cost of the 2008 Financial Crisis.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/17/the-real-cost-of-the-2008-financial-crisisz
Other
Firefox 62.0 Released.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/62.0/releasenotes/
What is First-Party Isolation in Firefox and what breaks if you enabled it.
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/firefox-fpi
Firefox is now built with clang LTO on all platforms.
https://glandium.org/blog/?p=3888
Good books for deep hacks.
https://begriffs.com/posts/2017-04-13-longterm-computing-reading.html
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