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.
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 sysctlview 1.3 is Out.
https://twitter.com/alfsiciliano/status/1138583963423952896
https://gitlab.com/alfix/sysctlview
Desktop Neo – Rethinking the Desktop Interface for Productivity.
https://desktopneo.com/
OpenZFS (ZoL) on FreeBSD renamed from sysutils/zol to sysutils/openzfs port.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=503975
Arduino Development Using OpenBSD CLI.
https://playground.arduino.cc/OpenBSD/CLI/
RAMBleed – Reading Bits in Memory w/o Accessing Them.
https://rambleed.com/
FreeBSD psm(4) Driver Enables Touchpads and Trackpads by Default.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=348873
Creating FreeBSD Kernel Development Environment with bhyve and Nested Virtualization.
https://hacking-on.systems/index.php?id=1
Mount exFAT Filesystem on OpenBSD.
https://www.romanzolotarev.com/openbsd/exfat.html
New OpenBSD Service – systemd.
https://redmine.ungleich.ch/issues/6751
Installing Accessible OpenBSD Laptop.
https://stsp.name/maurice-laptop.html
FreeBSD Performance Change – Reduces Data Cache Miss Rate by 10-14% and Running Time by 5-7%.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=348881
Why Red Hat (RHEL) Deprecated BTRFS.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14907771
Battle Testing Data Integrity Verification with ZFS/BTRFS/mdadm+dm-integrity Solutions.
http://www.unixsheikh.com/articles/battle-testing-data-integrity-verification-with-zfs-btrfs-and-mdadm-dm-integrity.html
OmniOS Community Edition r151030f/r151028af/r151022dd Available.
https://omniosce.org/article/030f-028af-022dd
Why You Should Learn Just a Little AWK.
https://gregable.com/2010/09/why-you-should-know-just-little-awk.html
Why Use Package Managers?
https://uwm.edu/hpc/software-management/
BSD Now 302 – Contention Reduction.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/302
FreeBSD Upgrades Clang/LLVM to 8.0.1 Version.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=349004
FreeBSD Modifies ZFS so Multi Threaded Write Use Less 15%-35% CPU Time and Increase Throughput 10% to 40%.
https://twitter.com/FreeBSDHelp/status/1139235988637663235
FreeBSD Adds sys/class/net Devices to linsysfs.
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/2c9faf1048125eb00f2662bf826b10eea67f1c80
FreeBSD adds macOS-like three finger drag trackpad gesture to psm(4) driver.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=349098
FreeBSD with ZFS without Drives.
FreeBSD+ZFS Without Drives
In Other BSDs for 2019/06/15.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/06/15/23048.html
ZFS on Linux 0.8.1 Released.
https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.8.1
FreeBSD 11.3-RC1 Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2019-June/091281.html
FreeBSD CTF – UEFI HTTP Boot Support.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2019-June/073593.html
FreeBSD Day is Almost Here.
Help us celebrate 26th anniversary of your favorite open source operating system.
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-day-is-almost-here/
The systemd-openbsd is systemd style init for OpenBSD.
https://github.com/reyk/systemd-openbsd
Building Security Appliance Based on FreeBSD.
https://www.bsdcan.org/2019/schedule/events/1064.en.html
https://twitter.com/BSDTV/status/1140339903118659585
Hardware
AMD Ryzen 3000 APUs.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14523/amd-ryzen-3000-apus-up-to-vega-11-more-mhz-under-150
AMD 16-Core Ryzen 9 3950X – 3.5GHz with 105W TDP.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14516/amd-16-core-ryzen-9-3950x-up-to-4-7-ghz-105w-coming-september
AMD Zen 2 Microarchitecture Analysis – Ryzen 3000 and EPYC Rome.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14525/amd-zen-2-microarchitecture-analysis-ryzen-3000-and-epyc-rome
AMD 16-Core Ryzen 9 3950X with 61K Points – Intel 18-Core i9-9980XE Only Got 46K.
AMD is Currently the Fastest Processor on Geekbench.
https://www.techquila.co.in/amd-ryzen-9-3950x-vs-intels-18-core-i9/
Life
Secret Surveillance Tracks Your Every Move in Stores.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/14/opinion/bluetooth-wireless-tracking-privacy.html
Other
Mozilla – Technology with Respect and Honesty – Here’s How We Do It.
https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/firefox-data-privacy-promise/
Firefox Extensions.
https://enchiridion.red/2019/1/18/firefox-extensions/
Firefox – Privacy Related about:config Tweaks.
https://www.privacytools.io/browsers/#about_config
You (Probably) Do Not Need ReCAPTCHA.
https://kevv.net/you-probably-dont-need-recaptcha/
FireEye Exploitation – Project Zero Vulnerability of the Beast.
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/12/fireeye-exploitation-project-zeros.html
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