Valuable News – 2019/02/15

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

How to Secure FreeBSD (server minimal edition).
https://www.adminbyaccident.com/freebsd/how-to-secure-freebsd/

GCC 8/9 vs. LLVM 7/8 Compiler Performance on POWER9 Raptor Talos II.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=power9-gcc-clang&num=5

FreeBSD Foundation – Love what FreeBSD has done for your organization?
Send your testimonial to FreeBSD Foundation!
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/about/testimonials/

SPARC and TOD Modules on Illumos.
https://ptribble.blogspot.com/2019/02/sparc-and-tod-modules-on-illumos.html

Customizing OpenBSD xenodm.
https://www.tumfatig.net/20190208/customizing-openbsd-xenodm/

Modern Data Lake with Minio.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MhWE2C59L7A5Oyv6x_PL1JGltykWjS6s/view

Nord – arctic north-bluish color palette.
https://arcticicestudio.github.io/nord
https://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord

NetBSD Desktop Part 6 – vi Editor – tmux – Unicode ${TERM}.
https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/12-netbsd-desktop-pt-6-vi1-editor-tmux-and-unicode-term

Customized Resolution for OpenBSD in VirtualBox.
https://www.tumfatig.net/20190131/customized-resolution-for-openbsd-in-virtualbox/

The mblaze is Maildir focused command line mail client.
https://github.com/chneukirchen/mblaze

Sony Pictures releases OpenColorIO under BSD license.
http://opencolorio.org/

Tricks QNX Uses to Outperform Other Microkernels.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9872640

LinuxQuestions.org 2018 Members Choice Awards – Winners from 2018 Year.
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2018-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-awards-128/?daysprune=-1

LinuxQuestions.org 2017 Members Choice Awards – Winners from 2017 Year.
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2017-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-awards-126/?daysprune=-1

FreeBSD Implements ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization).
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=343964

HardenedBSD has ASLR while FreeBSD just got (only) ASR.
https://twitter.com/lattera/status/1094717146402377728

Handy AT&T UNIX Quick Guide from 1982.
https://twitter.com/mattblaze/status/1092222055754489856

Setup QEMU with HAX Acceleration on NetBSD.
http://polprog.net/blog/netbsd-hax/

OpenBSD imported OpenRsync (with pledge/unveil support) into its base system.
https://twitter.com/openbsd/status/1094750961107697664
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20190211081518
https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/rsync/
https://github.com/kristapsdz/openrsync/blob/master/README.md

FreeBSD on ARM64 on Scalable Cloud Platform.
https://community.scaleway.com/t/freebsd-on-arm64/6678

The gotop activity monitor inspired by gtop and vtop written in Go.
https://github.com/cjbassi/gotop

Thoughts on SPARC Support in Illumos.
https://ptribble.blogspot.com/2019/02/thoughts-on-sparc-support-in-illumos.html

OpenNebula 5.7.80 Beta Contextualization Packages for FreeBSD Guest.
“With this beta version, we are excited to announce initial support for the FreeBSD guests!”
https://opennebula.org/beta-contextualization-packages/

OmniOS Community Edition r151028o/r151026ao/r151022cm Available.
https://omniosce.org/article/028o-026a0-022cm

First Impressions of Project Trident 18.12 from DistroWatch.
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20190211#trident

First Draft of FreeBSD Mastery: Jails by Michael W. Lucas is complete.
https://mwl.io/archives/4048

IBM Looks at Adding Support for LLVM/Clang to AIX.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=IBM-Looking-At-AIX-LLVM-Clang
https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-February/130175.html

Minio – Minimalist Object Storage Technology.
http://storagegaga.com/minio-the-minimalist-object-storage-technology/

Deploying Kubernetes on SmartOS.
https://youtu.be/rA0pcmqpRx4

The sysctlview GTK tool to explore FreeBSD sysctl-mib-tree is now committed to FreeBSD Ports.
https://freshports.org/deskutils/sysctlview/

KDE Plasma in FreeBSD Ports is updated to 5.15.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=492811
https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.15.0.php

Arch Linux Easy ZFS (ALEZ) Installer – ZFS Boot Environments on Linux.
https://github.com/danboid/ALEZ

Middleton BIOS for ThinkPad X61/T61/R61/X300.
https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Middleton%27s_BIOS

Long Slow Death of Commercial Unix.
“Apple MacOS and iOS are both derived from FreeBSD – and that installed base isn’t going anywhere.”
https://www.networkworld.com/article/3339381/data-center/the-long-slow-death-of-unix.html

Proposal for new RPKI validator – OpenBSD rpki-client(1).
https://medium.com/@jobsnijders/a-proposal-for-a-new-rpki-validator-openbsd-rpki-client-1-15b74e7a3f65

The dm-pkg is simple script to use dmenu on FreeBSD to install package.
https://github.com/nicholasbernstein/dm-pkg/blob/master/dm-pkg
https://youtu.be/NBhFNLyu3TU

Red Hat Satellite chooses PostgreSQL instead MongoDB.
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-satellite-standardize-postgresql-backend

PostgreSQL 11.2/10.7/9.6.12/9.5.16/9.4.21 Released.
https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1920/

FreeBSD User Tries Out NetBSD 8.0.
https://youtu.be/OxB70pg5Tsg

BSD Now 285 – BSD Strategy.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/285

USE Method – FreeBSD Performance Checklist.
http://www.brendangregg.com/USEmethod/use-freebsd.html

In Other BSDs for 2019/02/09
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/02/09/22487.html

Lazy Reading for 2019/02/10.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/02/10/22508.html

Hardware

Work on ARM – Issue 81.
https://www.worksonarm.com/blog/woa-issue-81/

Blackbird POWER9 Micro ATX Motherboard from Raptor.
https://www.raptorcs.com/content/BK1B01/intro.html

AMD Ryzen 5 2500X and Ryzen 3 2300X Review.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13945/the-amd-ryzen-5-2500x-and-ryzen-3-2300x-cpu-review/

FOSDEM 2019 – Pinebook Pro – PinePhone Dev Kits.
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7093&pid=44316#pid44316

PINE64 Community.
https://twitter.com/thepine64/status/1021864868893405185
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7158

Why More Organizations Will Move Toward Offline Tape Based Storage Strategy in 2019.
https://www.comparethecloud.net/articles/why-more-organisations-will-move-toward-an-offline-tape-based-storage-strategy-in-2019/

New Hardware from PINE64.
https://blog.hackster.io/new-hardware-from-pine64-a7c95e26684d

Life

Salary Negotiation – Make More Money – Be More Valued.
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

People Who Struggle to Get Out of Bed Are More Intelligent.
People who went to bed after 11 P.M. and got up after 8 A.M. earned more money and enjoyed a happier lifestyle.
https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/news/a7911/people-struggle-to-get-out-of-bed-smarter/

Why Childhood Indoctrination Messes Up Kids.
https://youtu.be/WHunC3Z-ccE

I Cut the ‘Big Five’ Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell.
https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194

Other

PKI for Busy People.
https://rehn.me/posts/pki-for-busy-people.html

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