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 2019/01/05.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/01/05/22307.html
Devin Teske made sysconf(8) to safely edit system config files on FreeBSD.
Another great tool after sysrc(8) that allows safe edit of system rc files.
https://github.com/freebsdfrau/FrauBSD/tree/master/sysconf
New PEFS 2018.12.29 Release.
http://pefs.io/blog/2018/12/release-20181229/?fbclid=IwAR2fPxLnl18rfAVcQ6OmMR7FhsRGuorHq84xYhQ-cnO2m7_7Z2aSFB65PLI
Revive Cisco IDS Into Capable OpenBSD Computer.
https://komlositech.wordpress.com/2018/12/30/revive-a-cisco-ids-into-a-capable-openbsd-firewall/
How I did start using FreeBSD.
https://www.banym.de/how-i-did-start-using-freebsd.html
MacBook Pro 9.2 Gets FreeBSD Support.
https://twitter.com/FreeBSDHelp/status/1081395210259595265
New HardenedBSD 13.0 Image for RPI3.
https://hardenedbsd.org/~shawn/rpi3/2019-01-05/HardenedBSD-aarch64-13.0-HARDENEDBSD-fa32a12f857-RaspberryPi3.img.xz
https://twitter.com/lattera/status/1081919725611950082
FreeBSD gives sh(1) proper default prompt instead of just “$“.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=342812
More FreeBSD RFC Sendmail Deprecation Discussion.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2017-December/018712.html
DistroWatch – Feature Story – FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE Review.
“(…) this release feels like a polished and improved incremental step forward.”
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20190107#freebsd
DistroWatch – Musings on Distros After Prolonged Use (2019).
“FreeBSD is probably my favourite server-oriented operating system, mostly because it never surprises me.
FreeBSD tends to do what you tell it to do, and just do what you tell it to do.”
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20190107#lookback
New ZFS on FreeBSD Implementation Can Now Be Tested with TrueOS.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ZFS-On-Linux-Test-TrueOS-Spin
https://pkg.trueos.org/iso/snapshot-zol/
OmniOS Community Edition r151028j/r151026aj/r151022ch.
https://omniosce.org/article/release-028j-026aj-022ch
FreeBSD Foundation – December 2018 – Development Projects Update.
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/december-2018-development-projects-update/
Zackup – Backup to ZFS – Inspired by BackupPC.
https://github.com/digineo/zackup
POSIX Shell and Utilities.
https://shellhaters.org/
OPNsense 18.7.10 Released.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=10903.0
A wc clone written in Rust.
https://crates.io/crates/cw
FreeBSD as my Network Storage Server (Part 1).
https://www.jasonvanpatten.com/2015/11/26/freebsd-as-my-network-storage-server/
FreeBSD as my Network Storage Server (Part 2).
https://www.jasonvanpatten.com/2015/11/26/freebsd-as-my-network-storage-server-part-2/
Knightmare: DevOps Cautionary Tale.
Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale
IOCCC: Best of Show.
https://www.ioccc.org/2018/mills/hint.html
Quick Naive Benchmarks on AMD A8-5550M APU on FreeBSD (with and without AESNI).
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2018-December/072466.html
Goal of GameBSD is to provide a place for students to learn about programming and technology.
https://gamebsd.com/index.html
AIX 7.2 running on AARCH64 (ARM) Pinebook with QEMU.
https://twitter.com/astr0baby/status/1082811124897251328
OpenBSD Router.
http://www.homeandofficeit.com/Main/OpenBSDRouter
New console font Spleen made default on OpenBSD.
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20190110064857
Interactive VIM Tutorial.
https://openvim.com/
ZFS on Linux does not work on Linux 5.0 kernels.
https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=154714516832389
Hardware
AMD Ryzen Mobile 3000-Series Launched – 2nd Gen Mobile at 15W-35Wand Chromebooks.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13771/amd-ces-2019-ryzen-mobile-3000-series-launched
AMD launches two new A-series 6W chips for Chromebooks.
https://liliputing.com/2019/01/amd-launches-two-new-a-series-chips-for-chromebooks.html
AMD Powered Acer Chromebook 315 Announced.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13783/acer-at-ces-amd-powered-acer-chromebook-315-announced
Huawei claims its Kunpeng 920 ARM based processor is the industry’s fastest.
64 cores clocked at 2.6GHz with 8-channel DDR4 memory.
Also two 100G RoCE ports and support for PCIe Gen4 and CCIX.
https://venturebeat.com/2019/01/06/huawei-claims-its-kunpeng-920-arm-based-risc-processor-is-the-industrys-fastest/
Huawei Unveils Industry’s Highest-Performance ARM-based CPU.
https://www.huawei.com/en/press-events/news/2019/1/huawei-unveils-highest-performance-arm-based-cpu
Samsung Plans 3nm Gate-All-Around FETs in 2021.
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1333318
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 7th Gen Gets Thinner.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13833/lenovo-at-ces-2019-7th-gen-thinkpad-x1-carbon-gets-thinner
Life
Amazon sent 1700 audio recordings of Alexa user to a stranger.
https://www.hackread.com/amazon-sent-audio-recordings-of-alexa-user-to-stranger/?fbclid=IwAR0B9CiTTpOxDClsNmfrlmRxyzP1nHzMYbCk2e8aAI8EgNkgKvyImJXGd-A
Before you can be with others, first learn to be alone.
https://aeon.co/ideas/before-you-can-be-with-others-first-learn-to-be-alone
10 Harmful Effects of Religion.
http://sarahrocksdale.wixsite.com/blog/single-post/2019/01/08/10-Harmful-Effects-of-Religion
System Down: systemd-journald Exploit.
https://www.qualys.com/2019/01/09/system-down/system-down.txt
Other
The State Of Software Security In 2019.
https://noncombatant.org/2019/01/06/state-of-security-2019/
The Developer Experience Bait-and-Switch.
https://infrequently.org/2018/09/the-developer-experience-bait-and-switch/
LinkedIn violates privacy and detects usage of browser extensions.
https://github.com/dandrews/nefarious-linkedin
Classic Doom gets 3D/HD remaster – courtesy of the fans.
https://www.pcgamesn.com/doom/doom-remaster
RPG Codex Review: ATOM RPG (Remix of Fallout Story).
https://rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=11080
Facebook is the new crapware.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/facebook-is-the-new-crapware/
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