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

Installing and Updating FreeBSD 11.0 on Raspberry Pi.
https://solence.de/2017/03/15/installing-and-updating-freebsd-11-0-release-on-a-raspberry-pi/

ZFS on Linux Runs into Snag with Linux 5.0.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ZFS-On-Linux-5.0-Problem

Create your own video streaming server with Linux or FreeBSD.
https://opensource.com/article/19/1/basic-live-video-streaming-server

hexyl – command-line hex viewer for terminal.
Colors different categories of bytes (NULL/printable ASCII/ASCII whitespace/other ASCII/non-ASCII).
https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl

How Vim Shaped My Writing.
https://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2016/10/how-vim-shaped-my-writing.html

Debugging Rust with VSCode on FreeBSD.
https://venshare.com/debugging-rust-with-vscode-on-freebsd/

In Other BSDs for 2019/01/12.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/01/12/22379.html

How OpenBSD is secure compared to other operating systems?
https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/af1s00/how_openbsd_is_secure_compared_to_other_operating/

FreeBSD adds bluetooth-config script to simplify setting up Bluetooth connections.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/342945

The good and the bad of Linux’s NetworkManager.
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/NetworkManagerGoodBad

Linux network-scripts being deprecated.
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/NetworkScriptsAndPPPoE

The CADT Model – mostly used in Linux environments.
https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

We are now closer to the Y2038 bug than the Y2K bug.
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/01/we-are-now-closer-to-the-y2038-bug-than-the-y2k-bug/

FreeBSD adds support for Clang Coverage Sanitizer in kernel (KCOV).
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=342962

Powersaving with DragonFly BSD Laptop.
https://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/user/Powersave/?updated

Difference Between ZFS Scrub and Resilver.
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/ZFSResilversVsScrubs

Risk that comes from ZFS on Linux not being GPL Compatible.
Actually its GPL that is not compatible with CDDL (ZFS license). Not the other way around.
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/ZFSNonGPLRisk

FreeBSD takes vmm(4) towards multicore Bhyve AMD support.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=343075

Ansible plugin for remotely provisioning FreeBSD Jails separately from their Jail host.
https://github.com/austinhyde/ansible-sshjail

Update Intel Microcode on FreeBSD.
https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Update_Intel_Microcode_on_FreeBSD

Building spotifyd on NetBSD.
https://atomicules.co.uk/2019/01/17/Building-Spotifyd-on-NetBSD.html

Building my FreeBSD-based home router.
https://kamila.is/learning/building-my-home-router/

HardenedBSD 1100056.12 Available.
https://hardenedbsd.org/article/op/2019-01-18/stable-release-hardenedbsd-stable-11-stable-v110005612

BSD Now 281 – EPYC Server Battle.
https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/128846/epyc-server-battle-bsd-now-281/

OpenRSYNC – clean-room implementation of rsync with a BSD (ISC) license.
https://github.com/kristapsdz/openrsync

FreeBSD and UEFI Boot.
https://blog.tyk.nu/blog/freebsd-and-uefi-boot/

Synaptics Touchpad on FreeBSD.
https://wiki.freebsd.org/SynapticsTouchpad

OpenBSD Content Filtering Proxy HOWTO in One Tweet 🙂
https://twitter.com/ogmaconnect1/status/983813448504094721

Aphelia – minimalist window manager.
https://github.com/vardy/aphelia

The tinywm.c is a window manager in 50 lines of C code.
https://github.com/mackstann/tinywm/blob/master/tinywm.c

OpenDoas: Portable Version of OpenBSD doas Command.
https://git.duncano.de/opendoas/about/

OpenBSD Packages Statistics.
https://pkgstat-openbsd.perso.pw/

The Art of Unix Programming by Eric Steven Raymond reformatted by Martin Tournoij.
https://arp242.net/the-art-of-unix-programming/

Reproducible NetBSD!
https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/netbsd/netbsd.html

FreeBSD PR (Problem Reports) Stats.
https://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/gnats/

Using cloud-init with SmartOS.
https://shaner.life/using-cloud-init-with-smartos/

Shawn Webb (co-creator of HardenedBSD) started new project to rewrite FreeBSD bhyve in Rust.
https://twitter.com/lattera/status/1085711849469952000