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
Proper VirtualBox Shared Folders support for FreeBSD guests.
https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/pull/10717
FreeBSD 12.0 ZFS AMIs Now Available.
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2019-02-16-FreeBSD-ZFS-AMIs-now-available.html
Booting FreeBSD now more secure with loader capable of authenticating/verifying kernel integrity with UEFI metadata.
https://twitter.com/Semihalf/status/1105052630810853376
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=344840
How tracking storage issue lead to software change.
NFS Ganesha fully ported to FreeBSD system.
https://news.gandi.net/en/2019/03/tracking-a-storage-issue-led-to-software-change/
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=nfs-ganesha
FreeBSD backported (MFC) their Address Space Randomization (ASR) implementation to 12-STABLE.
https://twitter.com/lattera/status/1105518473952849923
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=345067
BSD Now 289 – Microkernel Failure.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/289
ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6 with OpenBSD.
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/t6x1c
FreeBSD’s powerdxx 0.4.1 Power Daemon Released.
https://github.com/lonkamikaze/powerdxx/releases/tag/0.4.1
FreeBSD – Unix I Always Wanted.
https://kissitconsulting.com/blog/post/freebsd-the-linux-i-always-wanted
In Other BSDs for 2019/03/16.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/03/16/22653.html
Falling in Love with OpenBSD Again.
Well, it’s been a while – falling in love with OpenBSD again
HardenedBSD Foundation 2019 Meeting Minutes.
https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2019-03-16/hardenedbsd-foundation-2019-meeting-minutes
Moving Back to Lighttpd (from Nginx).
https://chargen.one/high5/moving-back-to-lighttpd
Hardware
Toshiba HDD Roadmap: SMR/MAMR/TDMR/HAMR Technologies.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14077/toshiba-hdd-roadmap-smr-mamr-tdmr-and-hamr
Gamer uses eight (8!) 3DFX Voodoo2 GPUs to play Half-Life game.
Actually four (4) Quantum3D Obsidian 2 200SBi cards – each card contains two (2) Voodoo2 chips.
https://www.overclock3d.net/news/software/retro_pc_gamer_uses_eight_3dfx_voodoo_2_gpus_to_play_half-life/1
ASRock DeskMini 310 Mini PC Review – Cost Effective Mini-STX Platform.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14089/asrock-deskmini-310-review
ASUS PRIME N4000T Launched.
https://www.fanlesstech.com/2019/03/asus-prime-n4000t-launched.html
Chinese Enthusiasts Make and Fit Modern Motherboards in Classic ThinkPads.
https://boingboing.net/2019/03/17/demand-signals-r-us.html
ThinkPad X210.
https://geoff.greer.fm/2019/03/04/thinkpad-x210/
Life
Future You Masturbation.
https://www.howitactuallyworks.com/archives/future_you_masturbation.html
What the Hell is Going On?
Effects of Information Abundance.
https://www.perell.com/blog/what-the-hell-is-going-on
Other
Firefox Send – Free File Transfers while Keeping your Personal Information Private.
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/03/12/introducing-firefox-send-providing-free-file-transfers-while-keeping-your-personal-information-private/
Look Back at the History of Firefox.
https://itsfoss.com/history-of-firefox/
Google quietly added DuckDuckGo as search engine option for Chrome.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/13/google-has-quietly-added-duckduckgo-as-a-search-engine-option-for-chrome-users-in-60-markets/
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