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 powerdxx 0.4.0 Released.
https://github.com/lonkamikaze/powerdxx/releases/tag/0.4.0

FreeBSD ZFS vs. TrueOS ZoF vs. DragonFly BSD HAMMER2 vs. ZFS on Linux Benchmarks.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=bsd-initial-zof

Install FreeBSD 12.0 plus KDE Plasma and Basic Applications.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qq3H8pflU0

The sysctlview is GTK tool to explore FreeBSD sysctl-mib-tree.
https://gitlab.com/alfix/sysctlview

The Laarc.io is new Lobste.rs and Hacker News companion.
… and it runs FreeBSD too.
https://laarc.io/

Thunderbolt 3 on AMD motherboard using FreeBSD Bhyve PCIe passthru on Linux guest.
https://twitter.com/michael_yuji/status/1089769779961851904

Strategic thinking, or what I think what we need to do to keep FreeBSD relevant.
http://www.leidinger.net/blog/2019/01/27/strategic-thinking-or-what-i-think-what-we-need-to-do-to-keep-freebsd-relevant/

Installing FreeBSD with Dual-Boot on ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th Generation.
https://market-ticker.org/post=234936

HardenedBSD 2018Q4 Quarterly Update.
https://github.com/HardenedBSD/freebsd-quarterly/blob/hardenedbsd/2018q4/2018q4/hardenedbsd.md

ClonOS to be Rolled Out.
ClonOS is web UI for controlling/deploying/managing FreeBSD Jails containers and Bhyve/Xen VMs.
https://hype.codes/clonos-be-rolled-out

Making OpenBSD Boot Logo with Spleen.
http://akpoff.com/archive/2019/making_an_openbsd_boot_logo_with_spleen.html

Setting the Boot Logo on ThinkPad.
http://akpoff.com/archive/2019/setting_the_boot_logo_on_a_thinkpad.html

FreeBSD Foundation Update – 2019/01.
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/newsletter/freebsd-foundation-update-january-2019/

New ASLR code in review on FreeBSD.
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5603

Credativ Group massively expands U.S. footprint with OmniTI acquisition.
https://omniti.com/remembers/2019/credativ-massively-expands-us-footprint.html

Alpine Linux moved back from LibreSSL to OpenSSL.
https://lists.alpinelinux.org/alpine-devel/6308.html

Avoiding Duplicate cron Jobs.
https://dan.langille.org/2019/01/13/avoiding-duplicate-cronjobs/

Upgrade Process Using GPT.
https://oshogbo.vexillium.org/blog/62/

BSD Now – Episode 283.
https://bsdnow.fireside.fm/283

Iocage 1.1 Release.
https://github.com/iocage/iocage/releases/tag/1.1

Bareos 18.2.5 Released.

Click to access bareos_18.2_final_en.pdf

OPNsense 19.1 Released.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=11398.0

FreeBSD CI Weekly Report 2019-01-27.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-testing/2019-January/001777.html

OpenIndiana Monitoring with Icinga.
https://community.icinga.com/t/openindiana-monitoring/248

Reimplement BIO_ORDERED handling in nvd(4) on FreeBSD.
Sync write latency from ~2.0 ms to ~1.1 ms by not sleeping without reason till next HZ tick.
ZFS pool with 8 ZVOLs writing 4KB blocks shows ~950 IOPS instead of ~750 IOPS before.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=343562

ZFS Feature Matrix.
https://zgrep.org/zfs.html

Setting Up Quick Minimal Jail on FreeBSD (ZFS).
https://markdownshare.com/view/981a46a3-8fba-4793-9b8f-b576760312bc

In Other BSDs for 2019/01/26.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/01/26/22439.html