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
First FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE Errata.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/doc?view=revision&revision=52685
OPNsense 18.7.9 Released.
https://opnsense.org/opnsense-18-7-9-released/
How to Install and Configure Basic OPNsense Firewall.
https://www.tecmint.com/install-and-configure-opnsense-firewall/
IPv666 – Address of the Beast.
https://l.avala.mp/?p=285
Let’s Encrypt – Certbot for OpenBSD’s httpd.
https://dev.to/nabbisen/lets-encrypt-certbot-for-openbsds-httpd-3ofd
FreeBSD ZFS vs. Linux EXT4/Btrfs RAID with 20 SSDs.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=freebsd-12-zfs
FreeBSD Commit That Can Drastically Lower Load on gssd(8) on Large NFS Servers.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=342114
In Other BSDs for 2018/12/15.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2018/12/15/22185.html
HardenedBSD 13-CURRENT on Pinebook.
https://twitter.com/lattera/status/1073699720923615232
Rouge Legacy on OpenBSD using PS4 dual shock pad.
https://twitter.com/mulander/status/1074015714363826176
How to Install GNOME or KDE PLASMA 5 on FreeBSD 12.
https://www.osradar.com/how-to-install-gnome-or-plasma5-kde-on-freebsd-12/
Write your Own Virtual Machine.
https://justinmeiners.github.io/lc3-vm/
OpenSMTPD 6.4.1 Released.
https://www.opensmtpd.org/announces/release-6.4.1.txt
Fix boot/install hangs/panic on HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Servers.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=342160
HardenedBSD first to ship with LLVM Non-Cross-DSO CFI applied to entire base operating system.
https://twitter.com/lattera/status/1074807820959342593
HardenedBSD 12-STABLE v1200058 Available.
https://hardenedbsd.org/article/op/2018-12-17/stable-release-hardenedbsd-stable-12-stable-v1200058
FreeBSD fixes PCI shared interrupts during suspend and resume.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=342170
KDE ports on FreeBSD 12 (amd64).
https://euroquis.nl/bobulate/?p=2013
Aberdeen FreeBSD Hackathon on 2019/04/17-19.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-aberdeen-freebsd-hackathon-registration-53410505259
OPNids – Integration of Suricata IDS with purpose-built Machine Learning Scripting Engine Available.
https://www.opnids.io/
Running FreeBSD on Pinebook – Review.
https://blog.madadipouya.com/2018/12/19/running-freebsd-on-pinebook-a-review/
VirtualBox 6.0.0 Released.
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.0#v0
Cartika ISP switches from Bacula Enterprise to Bareos.
Clusterlogics – Backup as a Service (BaaS) with Bareos.
Click to access cartika-case-study-en.pdf
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/evolution-software-platform-importance-open-source-andrew-rouchotas/
The Future of ZFS in FreeBSD.
FreeBSD will rebase its ZFS code from Illumos to ZFS on Linux (ZoL).
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2018-December/072422.html
OpenRC on FreeBSD.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2018-December/053740.html
Bye Bye Mongo – Hello Postgres.
The Guardian migrated from Mongo DB to PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS.
https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-hello-postgres
FreeBSD 12 Review – Used as My Daily OS on Bare Metal.
https://youtu.be/revOJcX2rLs
BSD Now 277 – Nmap Level Up.
https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/128526/nmap-level-up-bsd-now-277/
XigmaNAS 11.2.0.4.6315 Available.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xigmanas/files/XigmaNAS-11.2.0.4/11.2.0.4.6315/
Hardware
ESXi VSAN HP MicroServer Homelab.
http://www.cheesyboofs.co.uk/esxi-vsan-microserver-homelab
IBM Partners with Samsung to Include 7nm Chip Manufacturing.
https://newsroom.ibm.com/2018-12-20-IBM-Expands-Strategic-Partnership-with-Samsung-to-Include-7nm-Chip-Manufacturing
AMD Athlon 220GE and Athlon 240GE with Radeon Vega Graphics Launched.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13741/amd-athlon-220ge-and-athlon-240ge-with-radeon-vega-graphics-launched
Life
FBI Secretly Collected Data on Aaron Swartz Earlier Than We Thought.
https://gizmodo.com/fbi-secretly-collected-data-on-aaron-swartz-earlier-tha-1831076900
How to Grow Old by Bertrand Russell.
https://sites.google.com/site/gobenyan/essay
Ask Hacker News – How did you decide where to live?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18688647
Digital Dissidents – What it Means to be Whistleblower.
https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2016/03/digital-dissidents-160323141254755.html
Other
How Baldur’s Gate Saved the Computer RPG.
https://www.theringer.com/2018/12/21/18150363/baldurs-gate-bioware-1998-video-games
Firefox 64 built with GCC and Clang.
https://hubicka.blogspot.com/2018/12/firefox-64-built-with-gcc-and-clang.html
Johnson & Johnson Knew for Decades that Asbestos Lurked in its Baby Powder.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-johnson-johnson-cancer-special-report-idUSKBN1OD1RQ
Signal: We can’t include a backdoor in our app for the Australian government.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/signal-we-cant-include-a-backdoor-in-our-app-for-the-australian-government/
The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got.
http://russolsen.com/articles/2012/08/09/the-best-programming-advice-i-ever-got.html
Logitech app security flaw allowed keystroke injection attacks.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/logitech-app-security-flaw-allowed-keystroke-injection-attacks/
How Peter Jackson Made WW I Footage Seem Astonishingly New.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/16/movies/peter-jackson-war-movie.html
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