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
Restic and Backblaze B2 for Backups.
https://harshadsharma.com/2018/04/restic-and-backblaze-b2-for-backups
Support for Marvell Armada 38x added to FreeBSD.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2017-June/016314.html
Increasing coverage of signal semantics in regression tests on NetBSD.
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/increasing_coverage_of_signal_semantics
Creating Zones from Images on Tribblix.
https://ptribble.blogspot.com/2018/06/tribblix-creating-zones-from-images.html
Solaris 11.4 – Periodic Scrubs of ZFS Filesystems.
http://blog.moellenkamp.org/archives/37-Periodic-scrubs-of-ZFS-filesystems.html
Spacewalk for Linux Management – Part 1 – Guide for Uninitiated.
https://medium.com/@glmdev/spacewalk-for-linux-management-2701ac34df4a
Spacewalk for Linux Management – Part 2 – Setting Up Spacewalk Channels.
https://medium.com/@glmdev/setting-up-spacewalk-channels-f1db33a4e2a
FreeBSD upgrades Clang/LLVM compiler to 8.0.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=344779
ReactOS 0.4.11 Released.
https://www.reactos.org/project-news/reactos-0411-released
FreeBSD on ThinkPad X280.
https://adminblog.foucry.net/2019/03/05/FreeBSD-ThinkPad/#englishversion
FreeBSD implements minidump support for RISC-V.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=344830
SMoTherSpectre: transient execution attacks through port contention.
More security attacks based on SMT (Hyper Threading)
https://nebelwelt.net/blog/20190306-SMoTherSpectre.html
SPOILER: Speculative Load Hazards Boost Rowhammer and Cache Attacks.
All Intel Core CPUs are vulnerable. AMD and ARM Chips are Secure.
Click to access 1903.00446.pdf
BSD Now 288 – Turing Complete Sed.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/288
In Other BSDs for 2019/03/09.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/03/09/22620.html
FreeBSD Journal 2019 January/February.
Click to access 0954264cc0879c4080609529d858340492e14096.2.pdf
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/past-issues/getting-started-with-freebsd/
Writing a Book with Unix.
https://joecmarshall.com/posts/book-writing-environment/
FreeBSD adds separate aggregation limit for non-rotating media for ZFS.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=344934
The mandoc 1.14.5 Released.
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20190310175719
ZFS by Josh Bicking (@jibby0) about ZFS history/terminology/basics.
https://ritlug.com/talks/2019/03/07/w8-zfs/
blob:https://mozilla.github.io/ea5095f4-a7e1-461b-a496-f22893b4f95f
FreeBSD bhyve – Snapshot Save and Restore.
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19495
FreeBSD ACPI fix for HP (and possibly ASUS/Toshiba/Dell/other laptops) that fixes suspend/resume/poweroff.
https://twitter.com/FreeBSDHelp/status/1104926425126068224
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=344982
Hardware
Thunderbolt 3 becomes USB 4 as Intel interconnect goes royalty-free.
https://www.osnews.com/story/129551/thunderbolt-3-becomes-usb4-as-intels-interconnect-goes-royalty-free/
USB4 Specification Announced – 40 Gbps – Type-C – Thunderbird 3 Support.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14048/usb4-specification-40-gbps-type-c-tb3
Can Supermicro rule the gaming and desktop motherboard markets?
https://www.kitguru.net/tech-news/andrzej/can-supermicro-rule-the-gaming-and-desktop-motherboard-markets/
Supermicro M11SDV-4CT-LN4F Review Low-Cost AMD EPYC 3101.
https://www.servethehome.com/supermicro-m11sdv-4ct-ln4f-review-low-cost-amd-epyc-3101/
Life
Birmingham school stops LGBT lessons after parents protest.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/mar/04/birmingham-school-stops-lgbt-lessons-after-parent-protests
How to speak like a leader, not like an engineer?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19349676
Other
CNCF Survey – Use of Cloud Native Technologies in Production Has Grown Over 200%.
https://www.cncf.io/blog/2018/08/29/cncf-survey-use-of-cloud-native-technologies-in-production-has-grown-over-200-percent/
Windows 10 Decrapifier – 1803/1809.
https://community.spiceworks.com/scripts/show/4378-windows-10-decrapifier-1803-1809
Windows 10 Decrapifier – 1709.
https://community.spiceworks.com/scripts/show/3977-windows-10-decrapifier-1709
Serious Chrome Zero Day – Google Says Update ‘Now’.
Serious Chrome zero-day – Google says update “right this minute”
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