Valuable News – 2018/10/27

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

FreeBSD 12.0-BETA1 Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2018-October/089821.html

ZFS Replication Tool zrepl 0.1.0-rc2 Available.
https://github.com/zrepl/zrepl/releases/tag/0.1.0-rc2

In Other BSDs for 2018/10/20.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2018/10/20/21945.html

OpenBSD – How to fix a broken ACPI.
https://www.echinopsys.de/en/blog/fix-broken-acpi-on-openbsd.html

DNS over TLS in FreeBSD 12.
https://blog.des.no/2018/10/dns-over-tls-in-freebsd-12/

FreeBSD switch default PHP version from 7.1 to 7.2.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=482746

No more joy in FreeBSD.
https://twitter.com/pbiernacki/status/1054325671705669633
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2018-October/119022.html

OpenBSD 6.4 with nested virtualization at gridscale.
https://hazardous.org/archive/blog/2018/10/21/openbsd64-nested-vt-gridscale

DragonFly BSD Performance – SMP Scaling (2018).
What FreeBSD always was suposed to be.
https://www.dragonflybsd.org/performance/

OpenBSD switched default linker on amd64 from GNU to LLVM lld.
https://twitter.com/openbsd/status/1054465364657168384
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=154023755628845&w=2

How to install FreeBSD 11 on Google Cloud Compute.
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-deploying-freebsd11-unix-on-google-cloud/

VirtualBox 6.0 Beta 1 Released.
VirtualBox 6.0 will be a new minor release. Yes fuck logic.
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=89946

FreeBSD commit to introduce /etc/src.conf knob to build userland with retpoline.
https://twitter.com/FreeBSDHelp/status/1053841202896764928
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=339511

OpenIndiana Hipster 2018.10 Available.
https://www.openindiana.org/2018/10/24/openindiana-hipster-2018-10-is-here/
https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/2018.10+Release+notes
http://dlc.openindiana.org/

FreeBSD runs RISC-V in multiuser on lowRISC Nexys 4 DDR.
https://twitter.com/ed_maste/status/1054795743725268993

XigmaNAS 11.2.0.4.6154 Available.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xigmanas/files/XigmaNAS-11.2.0.4/11.2.0.4.6154/

Barman 2.5 with Support for PostgreSQL 11.
https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1897/

POWER9 Desktop.
https://twitter.com/hughhalf/status/1054642786727800833https://twitter.com/hughhalf/status/1054642786727800833

Installing Arcan on FreeBSD.
https://github.com/wolfspider/ArcanFreeBSDGuide

What I learned from porting my projects to FreeBSD.
https://github.com/shlomif/what-i-learned-from-porting-to-freebsd#what-i-learned-from-porting-my-projects-to-freebsd

GhostBSD 18.10 RC1/RC2 Available.
https://ghostbsd.org/18.10_RC1_release_announcement
https://ghostbsd.org/18.10_RC2_release_announcement

FreeBSD is not Linux distribution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps67ECyh0sM

OpenBSD 0-day Xorg/Xenocara LPE via CVE-2018-14665.
https://twitter.com/hackerfantastic/status/1055568290112831490

Microsoft are services run by UNIX systems.
Hotmail on FreeBSD.
MSN using Apache on Solaris.
bCentral ad servers running on FreeBSD.
https://twitter.com/unix_byte/status/1053848882793181188

OpenBSD Foundation reached its 2018 fundraising goal.
https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/contributors.html

Hardware

AMD EPYC 3251 Benchmarks and Review the Challenger We Need.
https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-3251-benchmarks-and-review/

ASRock DeskMini A300 STX Motherboard.
https://smallformfactor.net/forum/threads/possibility-of-amd-on-stx-form-factor.6798/page-6#post-119036

Supermicro CEO Letter Addressing Recent Article.
https://www.supermicro.com/en/news/CEO-letter

Intel kills off the 10nm process.
https://semiaccurate.com/2018/10/22/intel-kills-off-the-10nm-process/

Need modest ARM Cortex-A CPU? Just apply online with $125,000.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/22/arm_cortex_a5_designstart/

Porting Coreboot to the 51NB ThinkPad X210 Mod.
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/50924.html

Thinkpad X62.
https://geoff.greer.fm/2017/07/16/thinkpad-x62/

How IBM ThinkPad Became Design Icon.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90145427/how-ibms-thinkpad-became-a-design-icon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18273305

HP Spectre 13.3 x360 – Quad-Core i7 with 22.5 Hour Battery Life.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13509/hp-launches-ultra-thin-hp-spectre-13-x360

Life

Not exercising worse for your health than smoking, diabetes and heart disease, study reveals.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/19/health/study-not-exercising-worse-than-smoking/index.html

Other

Warhol and the Amiga.
https://www.warhol.org/exhibition/warhol-and-the-amiga/

Soviet Tesla – Electric Lada from 30 Years Ago That Was Mass Produced.
http://englishrussia.com/2018/09/04/soviet-tesla-electric-lada-from-30-years-ago-that-was-mass-produced/

NASA finds perfectly rectangular iceberg in Antarctica as if it was deliberately cut.
https://www.physics-astronomy.org/2018/10/nasa-finds-perfectly-rectangular.html

Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/24/apple-samsung-fined-for-slowing-down-phones

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