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
Using Dummynet for Traffic Shaping on FreeBSD.
https://www.hyperois.com/members/knowledgebase.php?action=displayarticle&id=1
HardenedBSD 1100056.6 Released.
https://hardenedbsd.org/article/op/2018-09-30/stable-release-hardenedbsd-stable-11-stable-v11000566
Cache Invalidation Bug in Linux Memory Management.
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/09/a-cache-invalidation-bug-in-linux.html
IBM is responsible for making \ the path separator instead of / in MS-DOS.
https://twitter.com/fahickman/status/1045809677827596288
https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/master/v2.0/source/README.txt
State of Memory Safety in Linux.
https://blog.araj.me/state-of-memory-safety-in-linux/
Haiku R1/Beta1 Released.
http://www.osnews.com/story/30758/Haiku_R1_beta_1_released
https://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku/release-notes/
FreshRSS – free self-hostable aggregator.
https://freshrss.org/
Miniflux is a minimalist and opinionated feed reader.
https://miniflux.app/
Using very old ZFS filesystem can give you kernel panic on Linux.
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/ZFSOldFilesystemPanic
OpenBSD vmd(8) now works out of the box on AMD Ryzen.
https://twitter.com/LeoUnglaub/status/1046058268555186176
The origin of the name POSIX.
https://stallman.org/articles/posix.html
PostgreSQL Per-Table Autovacuum Tuning.
https://www.keithf4.com/per-table-autovacuum-tuning/
Sequence Caching: Oracle vs. PostgreSQL.
https://seiler.us/2018-10-02-sequence-caching-oracle-vs-postgresql/
Polish BSD User Group.
https://oshogbo.vexillium.org/blog/55/
OpenSSH 2.3-7.4 Mass Username Enumeration (CVE-2018-15473).
https://github.com/trimstray/massh-enum
The POWER9 Desktop is Now Official!
https://twitter.com/PCzanik/status/1047782986660364290
If you were the Linus Torvalds of FreeBSD what would be the first thing you would change?
https://twitter.com/freebsdbytes/status/1047563491828277253
BSD Now 266 – File Type History.
https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/127441/file-type-history-bsd-now-266/
OpenBSD on the Desktop: some thoughts.
https://blog.gsora.xyz/openbsd-on-the-desktop-some-thoughts/
Installing Gophernicus in OpenBSD.
http://gopher.solobsd.org/gophernicus.html?utm_source=discoverbsd
FreeBSD finally updates GNOME port to 3.28 version.
https://twitter.com/wezm/status/1047990697838563329
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=480951
https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.28/
FreeBSD – FCP-0101 – Deprecating Most 10/100 Ethernet Drivers.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2018-October/089717.html
In Other BSDs for 2018/10/06.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2018/10/06/21880.html
DTrace is coming to Windows. Already available on FreeBSD/macOs/Illumos. The only holdout is Linux.
https://twitter.com/TheGlasspelican/status/1048405923318943744
https://youtu.be/tG8R5SQGPck?t=732
Announcing pkgsrc-2018Q3 Release.
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2018/10/05/msg020326.html?utm_source=discoverbsd
Migrating OmniOS VM from KVM to bhyve.
https://omniosce.org/info/bhyve_migrate
FreeBSD diskinfo -wS (synchronous writes) bandwidth limits on Optane devices.
https://twitter.com/nickprincipe/status/1048251974532124673
First SmartOS snapshot with bhyve support as alternative hypervisor to QEMU/KVM.
https://bsd.network/@sehnsucht/100843128594097501
http://us-east.manta.joyent.com/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20180315T080815Z
https://github.com/joyent/smartos-live/commit/48cb3c49e1a9c4cf204a59bed8312b0096f6209e
FreeBSD amd64: make memset less slow with mov.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=339205
Hardware
AMD 12-core (2970WX) and 24-core (2920X) Threadripper 2 CPUs on 29th October.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13443/amd-announces-availability-of-12-and-24core-threadripper-2-cpus-coming-late-october
RISC-V Inches Toward The Center.
https://semiengineering.com/risc-v-inches-toward-the-center/
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme / 6-core / 64 GB RAM / GTX 1050 Ti / under 4 pounds.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/08/lenovos-thinkpad-x1-extreme-hex-core-gtx-1050-ti-64gb-ram-under-4-pounds/
ARM Partners with Xilinx to Bring Cortex-M Processors to FPGAs.
https://blog.hackster.io/arm-partners-with-xilinx-to-bring-cortex-m-processors-to-fpga-be60b4c77b1a
iDRACula Vulnerability Impacts Millions of Legacy Dell EMC Servers.
https://www.servethehome.com/idracula-vulnerability-impacts-millions-of-legacy-dell-emc-servers/
Wi-Fi Alliance Introduces Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) Technology.
Wi-Fi 5 to identify devices that support 802.11ac technology.
Wi-Fi 4 to identify devices that support 802.11n technology
https://www.wi-fi.org/news-events/newsroom/wi-fi-alliance-introduces-wi-fi-6
MicroZed Chronicles: XDF & Versal.
https://blog.hackster.io/microzed-chronicles-xdf-versal-b5a04cd0f973
Intel Customized SoC for HP: Amber Lake-Y with On-Package LTE Modem.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13434/intel-custom-amber-lake-y-with-lte-modem
High resolution photos of the motherboard that looks almost the same in Bloomberg.
https://twitter.com/1kevin335200/status/1047960097937346566
Life
Insufficient Sleep Associated with Risky Teen Behavior.
https://neurosciencenews.com/sleep-teen-behavior-9938/
Annoying habits of highly effective people.
https://www.economist.com/business/2018/09/29/the-annoying-habits-of-highly-effective-people
Your IQ Matters Less Than You Think.
http://nautil.us/issue/65/in-plain-sight/your-iq-matters-less-than-you-think
Other
World’s Oldest Torrent Still Alive After 15 Years.
https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-oldest-torrent-still-alive-after-15-years-180929/
After Seeing These 15 Maps You’ll Never Look At The World The Same.
http://www.physics-astronomy.org/2018/05/after-seeing-these-15-maps-youll-never.html
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