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
Fixing php72_fpm in OpenBSD 6.4.
https://dev.to/nabbisen/fixing-php72fpm-on-openbsd-64-f0f
Sometimes It’s Necessary – Running x86_64 Binaries on Talos II POWER9 System.
https://www.talospace.com/2018/11/sometimes-its-necessary-running-x8664.html
Our pragmatic attachment to OpenBSD PF for our firewall needs.
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OpenBSDPFAttachment
FreeBSD 12.0-RC2 Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2018-November/090068.html
Super Capsicumizer 9000 for FreeBSD.
Run anything (like full blown GTK apps) under Capsicum.
https://github.com/myfreeweb/capsicumizer
Stardew Valley on FreeBSD.
http://bitcannon.net/post/stardew-valley-on-freebsd/
NetBSD ported FreeBSD’s sysrc as nbsysrc.
https://unitedbsd.com/t/nbsysrc-sysrc-for-netbsd/280
New CBSD 12.0.1 Release.
https://www.bsdstore.ru/en/news.html
GhostBSD 18.10 Screenshots.
https://www.distroscreens.com/2018/11/ghostbsd-1810-screenshots.html
Separate FreeBSD Images for arm64 PINEBOOK.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=340981
https://people.freebsd.org/~manu/FreeBSD-13.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-PINEBOOK.img.xz
The Chapter 14. HardenedBSD of the HardenedBSD Handbook has been migrated/ported to wiki page.
https://github.com/HardenedBSD/hardenedBSD/wiki
DragonFly BSD 5.4rc1 Image Available.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2018/11/27/22157.html
OpenBGPD – Adding Diversity to the Route Server Landscape.
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/claudio_jeker/openbgpd-adding-diversity-to-route-server-landscape
HardenedBSD 1100056.9 Available.
https://hardenedbsd.org/article/op/2018-11-28/stable-release-hardenedbsd-stable-11-stable-v11000569
BSD Now 274 – Language Assembly.
https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/128241/language-assembly-bsd-now-274/
Migrating OmniOS Virtual Machine from KVM to bhyve.
https://omniosce.org/info/bhyve_migrate
FreeBSD on XPS 13: Part 1.
https://jammy.co/posts/freebsd-on-xps-13-part-1/
FreeBSD on XPS 13: Part 2.
https://jammy.co/posts/freebsd-on-xps-13-part-2/
XigmaNAS 11.2.0.4.6229 Available.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xigmanas/files/XigmaNAS-11.2.0.4/11.2.0.4.6229/
Interim Support Guarantee for FreeBSD 12.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2018-November/001854.html
Shawn Webb open sourced scripts to automate building of HardenedBSD binary updates.
https://twitter.com/lattera/status/1068510009359777792
https://github.com/HardenedBSD/update-publisher
NetBSD Desktop Part 1 – Manual NetBSD Installation on GPT/UEFI.
https://unitedbsd.com/t/netbsd-desktop-part-1-manual-netbsd-installation-on-gpt-uefi/284
NetBSD Desktop Part 2 – Setup Wireless Networking on NetBSD.
https://unitedbsd.com/t/netbsd-desktop-pt-2-set-up-wireless-networking-on-netbsd-with-wpa-supplicant-and-dhcpcd/281
NetBSD Desktop Part 3 – Simple Stateful Firewall with NPF.
https://unitedbsd.com/t/netbsd-desktop-pt-3-simple-stateful-firewall-with-npf/286
Why BSD/OS is the best candidate for being the only tested legally open UNIX.
https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2018/11/26/why-bsd-os-is-the-best-candidate-for-being-the-only-tested-legally-open-unix/
You can download BSD/OS 4.2 ISO images from here if you want to check it out.
https://archive.org/details/bsdi-42
Robust Upgrade on Ubuntu using ZFS and Containers.
https://www.prakashsurya.com/post/2018-11-30-robust-upgrade-on-ubuntu/
QuickStart Guide on pot.
https://people.freebsd.org/~pizzamig/pot/QuickStart.html
FreeBSD adds new small trim(1) tool.
To wipe blocks on flash devices that use wear-leveling algorithms.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=341232
FreeBSD 12.0-RC3 Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2018-December/090138.html
Call for Papers for BSDCan 2019 which will be held 2019/05/17-18 (Fri/Sat) in Ottawa, Canada.
https://www.bsdcan.org/2019/papers.php
Oracle VM VirtualBox 6.0 Beta 3 Released.
https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/oracle-vm-virtualbox-60-beta-3-released
Grepping User-Agent: from FreeBSD Developers Mail.
https://gist.github.com/Jehops/ed3d60b103df439ecea782bd9ed37fec
Hardware
Are cheap low power x86 CPUs an alternative to higher end makers ARM boards?
https://rk.edu.pl/en/are-cheap-low-power-x86-cpus-n-alternative-higher-end-makers-arm-boards/
IBM Mainframe z14 Microprocessor and System Control Design.
https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/941/isscc-2018-the-ibm-z14-microprocessor-and-system-control-design/
Odroid-H2 – Worldβs first open-spec Intel Gemini Lake computer.
https://www.iotgadgets.com/2018/11/the-worlds-first-open-spec-intel-gemini-lake-single-board-computer-goes-out-of-stock-within-24-hours/
Odroid-H2 – Benchmarks of the Intel Powered $111 Board.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-ODROID-H2-Benchmarks
Lenovo to pay $7.3m for installing adware in 750,000 laptops.
https://www.hackread.com/lenovo-to-pay-fine-for-installing-adware-in-laptops/
CeBIT is Dead.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13656/cebit-trade-show-axed
Life
Why everything will collapse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsA3PK8bQd8
Breathing Through the Nose May Offer Unique Brain Benefits.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/20/well/mind/breathing-through-the-nose-may-offer-unique-brain-benefits.html
12 Monkeys Is the Apocalypse Movie We Need Right Now
https://www.vulture.com/2018/11/12-monkeys-why-terry-gilliams-movie-is-so-relevant-today.html
Other
Researchers Created Fake ‘Master’ Fingerprints to Unlock Smartphones.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjenyd/researchers-created-fake-master-fingerprints-to-unlock-smartphones
CPJ Safety Advisory: Pegasus spyware used to target journalists, civil society.
https://cpj.org/2018/10/cpj-safety-advisory-pegasus-spyware-used-to-target.php
ΕΓ³dΕΊ – the Office Eldorado in the centre of Poland.
http://www.outsourcingportal.eu/en/lodz-the-office-eldorado-in-the-centre-of-poland
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