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 2018/12/01.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2018/12/01/22135.html
History of Dell UNIX.
https://notes.technologists.com/notes/2008/01/10/a-brief-history-of-dell-unix/
http://gunkies.org/wiki/Dell_UNIX
https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2012/03/20/dell-unix-lives-again/
Crontab Guru – Schedule Cron Jobs Quickly and Easily.
https://crontab.guru/
The vi – my favorite config-less editor.
https://vfoley.xyz/vi/
What makes BeOS and Haiku unique.
https://osvoyager.wordpress.com/2018/11/30/what-makes-beos-and-haiku-unique/
DragonFly 5.4.0 Released.
https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release54/
OpenBSD Desktop.
https://cryogenix.net/openbsd_desktop.html
Buying Commodore Amiga 30 Years Later.
https://www.vintagewave.net/blog/2018/11/30/buying-a-commodore-amiga-30-years-later
GhostBSD 18.10 Review by Distrowatch.
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20181203#ghostbsd
Using the GOG.com Installers for Linux on NetBSD.
https://dressupgeekout.blogspot.com/2018/12/using-gogcom-installers-for-linux-on.html
HardenedBSD 1100056.10 Available.
https://hardenedbsd.org/article/op/2018-12-05/stable-release-hardenedbsd-stable-11-stable-v110005610
OpenBSD Kernel Internalsβ – Creation of process from user-space to kernel space.
https://medium.com/@_neerajpal/openbsd-kernel-internals-creation-of-process-from-user-space-to-kernel-space-31a504389f87
FreeNAS 11.2 Available.
https://www.freenas.org/blog/freenas-11-2-has-arrived/
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/library/freenas-11-2-release/
Running AIX 1.3 Inside VirtualBox.
https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2018/09/14/running-aix-1-3-inside-virtual-box-5-2-16/
Running macOS Mojave 10.14 on VirtualBox.
https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2018/09/25/running-macos-mojave-10-14-on-virtualbox-5-2-18-on-linux-x86_64/
Running AIX 7.2 TL3SP1 on x86_64 via qemu-system-ppc64.
https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2018/11/04/running-aix-7-2-tl3sp1-on-x86_64-via-qemu-system-ppc64/
Reverse Shell on AIX 7.2.
https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2018/11/05/reverse-shell-on-aix-7-2/
Get Smart with SmartOS.
http://www.admin-magazine.com/Articles/SmartOS-Cool-Cloud-Platform-Rises-from-the-Ashes-of-Solaris
OpenBSD on Dell Inspiron 1090 Duo.
https://grosu.nl/systems/inspiron-duo.html
NetBSD Desktop Part 3 – Simple Stateful Firewall with NPF.
https://unitedbsd.com/t/netbsd-desktop-pt-3-simple-stateful-firewall-with-npf/286
NetBSD Desktop Part 4 – X Display Manager (XDM).
https://unitedbsd.com/t/netbsd-desktop-pt-4-the-x-display-manager-xdm/292
NetBSD Desktop Part 5 – Automounting with Berkeley am-utils.
https://unitedbsd.com/t/netbsd-desktop-pt-5-automounting-with-berkeley-am-utils/294
FreeBSD 12 got full support for writing ext4 filesystems.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=341505
GhostBSD tested on real hardware ThinkPad T410.
GhostBSD tested on real hardware T410 β better than TrueOS?
MeetBSD California 2018 Talks Available.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb87fdKUIo8Q41aoPE6vssP-uF4dxk86b
FreeBSD News and Links Roundup – Edition 2018-48.
https://www.freebsdbytes.com/2018/12/freebsd-news-and-links-roundup-edition-2018-48/
Managing BSD Systems with Ansible.
Click to access Ansible_Tutorial.pdf
Upgrading OpenBSD from 6.3 to 6.4.
https://dev.to/nabbisen/upgrading-openbsd-63-to-64-59a5
The pfsync on FreeBSD Just Got 30-100% Performance Improvement.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=341646
Nixers Newsletter | 2018-12-07 | 104.
https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php#104
Tuning OpenBSD for Desktop Usage.
https://h3artbl33d.nl/blog/tuning-openbsd-for-desktop-usage
DragonFly BSD 5.4 – Quick Look at Viable Desktop OS.
https://youtu.be/S0-htW1wNjE
FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE Available.
https://twitter.com/tomvogt/status/1071140077961707520
Hardware
Raspberry PCI.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2720009
Seagate Reveals World Biggest HDD At 16 TB.
https://nexthive.com/seagate-biggest-hdd-16-tb/
AMD EPYC 7371 Pricing Update Insane Value.
https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-7371-pricing-update-an-insane-value/
Life
Parents Guide to Protecting Kids Privacy.
https://techlife.asurion.com/feature/parents-guide-to-protecting-kids-privacy/
Designing cities to counter loneliness? Letβs explore possibilities.
https://theconversation.com/designing-cities-to-counter-loneliness-lets-explore-the-possibilities-104853
Other
The Making Of: Dust (Counter-Strike de_dust map).
https://www.johnsto.co.uk/design/making-dust/
The Making Of: Dust 2 (Counter-Strike de_dust2 map).
https://www.johnsto.co.uk/design/making-dust2/
Everything you need to know about pointers in C.
https://boredzo.org/pointers/
State of Web Browsers.
https://ferdychristant.com/the-state-of-web-browsers-f5a83a41c1cb
Microservices and Availability.
http://kevinmahoney.co.uk/articles/microservices-and-availability/
Choose Firefox Now or Later You Won’t Get a Choice.
https://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/08/choose-firefox-now-or-later-you-wont.html
Comprehensive Guide to Quitting Google.
https://lifehacker.com/the-comprehensive-guide-to-quitting-google-1830001964
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