Valuable News – 2018/10/20

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

OpenBSD vmm(8) now runs CentOS 7 Linux.
https://twitter.com/l8n8dude/status/1050696721129504768

Freedesktop.org – Its Past and Its Future.
https://lwn.net/Articles/767258/

Linux elementary OS 5 Juno Available.
Still no desktop icons.
https://medium.com/elementaryos/elementary-os-5-juno-is-here-471dfdedc7b3

Unix in East Germany (GDR) from 1982.
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/comp.unix.wizards/QX_dxElrVNs

FreeBSD 12.0-ALPHA10 Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-snapshots/2018-October/000464.html

Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.2.20 Available.
https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/oracle-vm-virtualbox-5220-now-available

Arcan versus Xorg – Approaching Feature Parity.
Arcan versus Xorg – Approaching Feature Parity

Kubernetes with IBM AIX container technology.
https://twitter.com/cgibbo/status/1052650460585185280

Fonts on Unix.
Really great in depth guide to fonts on UNIX systems.
https://venam.nixers.net/blog/unix/2017/06/04/fonts-on-unix.html

OpenBSD 6.4 Released.
https://www.openbsd.org/64.html

PostgreSQL 11 Released.
https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1894/

2ndQuadrant contributes major features to PostgreSQL 11.
https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/about/news/2ndquadrant-contributes-major-features-postgresql-11/

OpenBSD Mail Smarthost Runbook.
https://paulgorman.org/technical/openbsd-smarthost-runbook.txt.html

Upgrading OpenBSD with Ansible.
https://chown.me/blog/upgrading-openbsd-with-ansible.html

FreeNAS 11.2-RC1 Available.
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/library/freenas-11-2-rc1/

FreeBSD HEAD is now known as 13-CURRENT.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=339436

FreeBSD has initial driver for ACPI NFIT enumerated NVDIMMs.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=339391

CAM drivers in FreeBSD over time.
https://github.com/bsdimp/device-data/blob/master/cam.md

OpenBSD on the AMD Ryzen powered ThinkPad A485.
https://deftly.net/posts/2018-10-15-openbsd-on-lenovo-a485.html

Hardware

RISC-V: More Than Core.
https://semiengineering.com/risc-v-more-than-a-core/

Backblaze 2018 Q3 Hard Drive Stats: Less is More.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/2018-hard-drive-failire-rates/

ODROID-H2 mini PC board with Celeron J4105.
https://liliputing.com/2018/10/odroid-h2-mini-pc-board-with-celeron-j4105-gemini-lake-cpu-coming-next-month.html

Zotac Zbox PI225 pico Mini PC Review.
https://www.tomsguide.com/us/zotac-zbox-pico-mini-pc,review-5857.html

Business card-sized Japanese phone bucks the giant-phone trend.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/this-business-card-sized-japanese-phone-bucks-the-giant-phone-trend/

Life

It’s better to be born rich than gifted.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/09/its-better-be-born-rich-than-talented/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1283300b875f

Good Sleep, Good Learning, Good Life.
https://www.supermemo.com/en/articles/sleep.

Microplastics found in 90 percent of table salt.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/10/microplastics-found-90-percent-table-salt-sea-salt/

Other

Ideas for scaling PostgreSQL to multi-terabyte and beyond.
https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/ideas-for-scaling-postgresql-to-multi-terabyte-and-beyond/

Make Firefox Great Faster Again.
https://twitter.com/romanzolotarev/status/1053568896945569792

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