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

The iocage 1.0 Released.
https://github.com/iocage/iocage/releases/tag/1.0

FreeBSD in Audio Studio.
FreeBSD is usually not the first choice for music art, but it has quite a lot to offer.
https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/freebsd_in_audio_studio/

Install DragonFly BSD 5.4.
https://gitlab.com/jacekkowalczyk82/freebsd/blob/master/DragonFlyBSD.md

FreeBSD and USB MIDI.
https://meka.rs/blog/2017/06/17/freebsd-usb-midi/

In Other BSDs for 2018/12/22.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2018/12/22/22216.html

HardenedBSD 1100056.11 Available.
https://hardenedbsd.org/article/op/2018-12-22/stable-release-hardenedbsd-stable-11-stable-v110005611

HardenedBSD 1200058.1 Available.
https://hardenedbsd.org/article/op/2018-12-22/stable-release-hardenedbsd-stable-12-stable-v12000581

DragonFly 5.4.1 Released.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2018/12/24/22268.html

FreeBSD 2018/01-09 Status Report.
https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2018-01-2018-09.html

FreeBSD Had Very Successful 2018 – Performance Improvements – Better Hardware Support.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-2018-Q1-Q3-Status

Blender 2.8 Released.
https://www.blender.org/2-8/

FreeBSD Foundation Created FreeBSD Timeline.
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd/timeline/

Gitea On OpenBSD – Using Official Package.
https://dev.to/nabbisen/gitea-on-openbsd-using-official-package-2ogl

BSD Now 278 – Real McCoy.
https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/128586/the-real-mccoy-bsd-now-278/

FreeBSD switches mutexes to atomics in GEOM_DEV I/O path.
IOPS increases from 600K to 800K+ on NVMe at 72-core systems.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=342558

FreeBSD Wireless Quickstart.
http://srobb.net/fbsdquickwireless.html

Haiku Beta – Release Heard Around the World.
https://medium.com/@andrewgreimann_62789/haiku-beta-the-release-heard-around-the-world-d776cae5f3e7

Mac OS X Kernel Programming Guide – BSD Overview.
How much BSD is in the macOS system.
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KernelProgramming/BSD/BSD.html

FreeBSD on ThinkPad X240.
https://unrelenting.technology/articles/freebsd-on-the-thinkpad-x240