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
FreeBSD fixed pfsync change that break CARP.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=343130
Restoration of Early UNIX Artifacts.
Amiga 500 Papercraft Pattern.
http://rockybergen.com/whatsnew/2019/1/15/amiga-500-papercraft-design
Click to access amiga-500-ver1.pdf
Ansible BSD Working Group.
https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/BSD
Ansible Solaris Working Group.
https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/Solaris
In Other BSDs for 2019/01/19.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/01/19/22394.html
Debian systemd maintainer will not maintain systemd anymore.
“What’s going on is just too stupid/crazy.”
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2019-January/041971.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/agna5n/debian_systemd_maintainer_steps_down_over/
AMIGA gets LZ4 for 68k CPUs.
https://github.com/arnaud-carre/lz4-68k
[POLISH] ZFS – Rewolucja w Systemach Plikow (Mariusz Zaborski).
Click to access programista_zfs_2015.pdf
LiteCLI is user friendly command line client for SQLite database.
https://www.pgcli.com/launching-litecli.html
OpenBSD can now join any open WiFi network.
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20190120142708
OpenBSD deletes vmm(4) on i386.
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20190120142529
NomadBSD 1.2-RC1 Released.
nomadbsd.org/index.html#rel1.2-rc1
Open source Spotify UNIX client available on FreeBSD as audio/spotifyd port.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=490765
OpenBSD added support for 2TB of memory on amd64.
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20190121081245
HardenedBSD 1200058.2 Available.
https://hardenedbsd.org/article/op/2019-01-20/stable-release-hardenedbsd-stable-12-stable-v12000582
SoloBSD 19.01-STABLE based on HardenedBSD 1200058.2 Available.
https://www.solobsd.org/index.php/2019/01/23/solobsd-19-01-stable/
OmniOS Community Edition r151028l/r151026al/r151022cj Available.
https://omniosce.org/article/028l-026al-022cj
Wayland Support on BSDs Continuing to Improve.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wayland-BSD-Improving-2019
Lumina from Project Trident will replace Fluxbox with their own WM after its finished.
https://twitter.com/q5sys/status/1087422097499062274
For the Love of Pipes.
https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/for-the-love-of-pipes/
FreeBSD adds trim(8) command for devices with wear leveling algorithms.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=343118
ClarityOS is Safe/Secure/Modern/Reliable HardenedBSD fork.
Goal is to make BSD as open and customizable as possible, while keeping it easy, simple and accessible to as many people as possible!
https://clarityos.net/
MidnightBSD Developer Journal.
https://www.justjournal.com/users/mbsd/entry/33772
Out-of-the-Box 10GE Network Benchmarks on Linux Distributions and FreeBSD 12.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=10gbe-linux-freebsd12&num=3
FreeBSD in top(1) will not now show swap line if there are no swap devices.
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18928
Wine 4.0 Released.
https://www.winehq.org/news/2019012201
AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan.
https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK
Kerberized NFS4 in Mixed Environment.
FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE as KDC/Kerberos/NFS4 Server with Windows/Ubuntu as Clients.
https://amoradi.org/public/kerberized_nfsv4.txt
XigmaNAS 11.2.0.4.6400 Released.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xigmanas/files/XigmaNAS-11.2.0.4/11.2.0.4.6400/
FreeBSD utility nsysctl to show MIB tree in XML.
https://twitter.com/alfsiciliano/status/1087561685693427712
HOWTO – VNET Jails on FreeBSD 12 with ZFS.
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/ahdbbq/howto_jails_freebsd_12_vnet_zfs/
Building FreeBSD based home router.
https://kamila.is/learning/building-my-home-router/
Project Trident 18.12 Overview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YizY1YblzU
What’s Wrong with tar?
https://www.cyphar.com/blog/post/20190121-ociv2-images-i-tar
BSD Now 282 – Open the Rsync.
https://bsdnow.fireside.fm/282
ClonOS 19.01-RELEASE Available – First Public Release.
https://clonos.tekroutine.com/download.html
Hardware
Rock Pi 4 Review – Is this Raspberry Pi challenger you’ve been looking for?
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/rock-pi-4-review-is-this-the-raspberry-pi-challenger-youve-been-looking-for/
Freedom and Privacy in the Datacenter.
https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2018-2170-freedom_and_privacy_in_the_datacenter
Introducing Ultra EPYC AMD Powered Sun Ultra 24 Workstation.
https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-the-ultra-epyc-amd-powered-sun-ultra-24-workstation/
Thin-ITX AMD AM4 Motherboard.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13885/the-true-shortest-am4-motherboard-thinitx-comes-to-amd
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-2018/
Double Height DDR4 – 32GB Modules Reviewed.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13694/double-height-ddr4-gskill-zadak-2x32gb-ddr4-3200
Life
Men’s and Women’s Brains.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ9L9YBJkk8
Philip Zimbardoβs Response to Recent Criticisms of the Stanford Prison Experiment.
https://www.prisonexp.org/response/
50 Years Ago Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Point Blame at Fat.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat
Students Learn From People They Love.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/opinion/learning-emotion-education.html
The Process of Mastering a Skill.
https://azeria-labs.com/the-process-of-mastering-a-skill/
Real Hardware for the FreeBSD BeaST Storage System.
https://mezzantrop.wordpress.com/2019/01/18/the-real-hardware-for-the-beast-storage-system/
Remote Code Execution in Linux apt/apt-get Commands.
https://justi.cz/security/2019/01/22/apt-rce.html
The Alarming Decline of Quality Youth Playtime.
https://houseoflawandorder.com/the-alarming-decline-of-quality-youth-playtime/
Other
Quake 1.5 Refreshed FPS Classic with New Maps/Monsters/Mayhem.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/01/18/quake-1-5-is-a-massive-mod-overhaul-for-the-fps-classic/amp/
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