Valuable News – 2019/08/14

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

Linux Kernel 5.2.6 Unable to Gracefully Handle Low Memory Pressure.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/4/15

FreeBSD Updates amdtemp(4)/amdsmn(4) to Attach to AMD Ryzen 3 (ZEN 2) Hostbridges.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=350624

Benchmarking Apache Spark on Minio S3 and AWS S3.
https://blog.min.io/benchmarking-apache-spark-vs-aws-s3/

Sensei 1.0 Out.
https://www.sunnyvalley.io/post/sensei-1-0-out

Minio Breaking HDFS Speed Barrier – First for Object Storage.
https://blog.min.io/hdfsbenchmark/

GCC 4.2.1 to Be Removed Before FreeBSD 13.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2019-August/019674.html

FreeBSD FUSE Update – Call for Testing.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2019-August/073980.html
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=350665

Document Foundation Announces LibreOffice 6.3 Availability.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/08/08/tdf-announces-libreoffice-63/

NetBSD Security Advisory 2019-004.
https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2019-004.txt.asc

Linux Journal Shuts Its Doors for Good.
Final Letter from Editor – Awkward Goodbye.
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-publication-awkward-goodbye
https://secure2.linuxjournal.com/pdf/dljdownload.php

Find and Print Fastest OpenBSD Mirror.
https://github.com/lukensmall/pkg_ping

Why is Modern Web Development so Complicated – Part 1.
https://www.vrk.dev/2019/07/11/why-is-modern-web-development-so-complicated-a-long-yet-hasty-explanation-part-1/

Nvidia Starts Publishing GPU Hardware Documentation to Help Open Source Drivers.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-Open-GPU-Docs

GSoC 2019 Report – Adding NetBSD KNF to clang-format – Part 2.
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc_2019_report_adding_netbsd

Install Matomo Web Analytics with Nginx on FreeBSD 12.0.
https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-matomo-web-analytics-on-freebsd-120/

I Care About Ansible.
https://jpmens.net/2019/06/21/i-care-about-ansible/

XFCE 4.14 Released.
https://xfce.org/about/news/?post=1565568000
https://xfce.org/download/changelogs/4.14

FreeBSD Instant Workstation.
https://euroquis.nl//freebsd/2019/08/12/instant-workstation.html

Hardware

Talking High Bandwidth With IBM Power10 Architect.
https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/08/06/talking-high-bandwidth-with-ibms-power10-architect/

Intel Ice Lake Benchmark Preview – Inside 10nm.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14664/testing-intel-ice-lake-10nm/

Intel 10nm Chip Gets Mixed Reviews.
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334991

AMD EPYC Rome 7742 (64-Core/128-Thread) Battles Intel Xeon in Benchmarks Posted Online.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-epyc-7742-vs-intel-xeon-benchmarks,40089.html

AMD Rome 2nd Generation EPYC Review – 2 x 64 Core Benchmarked.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14694/amd-rome-epyc-2nd-gen

Tranquil PC – Mini Fanless Barebones with AMD V1605B and 4x DP.
https://www.quietpc.com/tranquilpc-mmdpc-001-v1605b

Supermicro Now Offering AMD EPYC 7002 Series Processor Based Systems.
https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/supermicro-now-offering-amd-epyc-7002-series-processor-based-systems/

Intel Chips Have Another Major Security Flaw.
https://www.techradar.com/news/intel-chips-have-another-major-security-flaw

2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors Set New Standard for Modern Datacenter.
https://www.techpowerup.com/258069/2nd-gen-amd-epyc-processors-set-new-standard-for-the-modern-datacenter

Very First Xeon NUC.
https://www.fanlesstech.com/2019/08/the-very-first-xeon-nuc.html

Other

Disorder of (Math) Operations.
https://www.autodidacts.io/disorder-of-operations/

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