Valuable News – 2018/11/24

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 2018/11/17.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2018/11/17/22071.html

Nixers Newsletter – 2018-11-16 – 101.
https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php#101

FreeBSD 12.0-RC1 Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2018-November/090020.html

SoloBSD 11.2-STABLE-1117 based on HardenedBSD 1100056.8.
https://www.solobsd.org/index.php/2018/11/17/solobsd-11-2-stable-1117/

Celebrating 50 years of Unix.
https://unix50.org/

Distrowatch.com NetBSD 8.0 Review.
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20181119#netbsd

QEMU with Bridged tap0 Interface on FreeBSD Host.
https://thebsd.club/index.php?p=/discussion/8/qemu-with-a-bridged-tap0-interface-on-a-freebsd-host

Webmin module called ZFS Manager supports managing Boot Environments with beadm tool.
https://github.com/jonmatifa/zfsmanager/issues/28

Running Windows software on ARM with Wine.
http://www.osnews.com/story/30880/Running_Windows_software_on_ARM_with_Wine

Games on FreeBSD.
https://oshogbo.vexillium.org/blog/58/

Trying DragonFly BSD & FreeBSD On Intel Core i9 9900K.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel-9900k-bsd

Playing Games on Pinebook on NetBSD-current arm64.
https://twitter.com/astr0baby/status/1065353771952336897

FreeBSD for Thanksgiving.
https://bwidawsk.net/blog/index.php/2018/11/freebsd-for-thanksgiving/

Goals for FreeBSD 13.
https://hackmd.io/Yv46aOjTS0eYk0m4YLXOTw#

Abandon Linux. Move to FreeBSD or Illumos.
https://www.adminbyaccident.com/politics/abandon-linux-move-freebsd-illumos/

OPNsense 18.7.8 Released.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=10366.0

NetworkManager mandatory on RHEL8 systems.
https://twitter.com/iMilnb/status/1065500360159170560

How to install and configure FreeBSD 11.2.
https://jacekkowalczyk.wordpress.com/2018/11/23/how-to-install-and-configure-freebsd-11-2/

BSD Now 273 – Thoughtful Episode.
https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/128146/a-thoughtful-episode-bsd-now-273/

Debugging rcctl in OpenBSD.
https://dev.to/nabbisen/debugging-rcctl-in-openbsd-3e70

In Other BSDs for 2018/11/24.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2018/11/24/22103.html

The nnn – The fastest terminal file manager ever written.
https://github.com/jarun/nnn

Hardware

An Excellent Machine.
POWER9 Based Talos II System from Raptor Computing Thoughts.
https://www.fitzsim.org/blog/?p=350

AMD Discloses Initial Zen 2 Details. 64 cores.
https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/1815/amd-discloses-initial-zen-2-details/

Pinebook – My First Few Surprising Hours With $99 Linux Laptop.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/11/21/pinebook-my-first-few-surprising-hours-with-a-99-linux-laptop/amp/

Pinebook TN 720p versus Pinebook IPS 1080p.
https://twitter.com/armbian/status/1065713551401254912

ARM Delivers on Cortex A76 Promises: What it Means for 2019 Devices.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13614/arm-delivers-on-cortex-a76-promises

Life

Edward Snowden Explains Blockchain to His Lawyer.
https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/internet-privacy/edward-snowden-explains-blockchain-his-lawyer-and-rest-us

Going to university does not broaden the mind.
But going straight from school to work narrows it.
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/11/24/going-to-university-does-not-broaden-the-mind

What’s Going On In Your Child’s Brain When You Read Them A Story?
https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/51281/whats-going-on-in-your-childs-brain-when-you-read-them-a-story

Other

Resistance is Real.
http://davemart.in/resistance/

 

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