Valuable News – 2019/09/02

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 Meets Linux at Open Source Summit.
https://youtu.be/jrjBoV5tSGo

FreeBSD 2019 Survey Results.
https://youtu.be/9nc8N6GtAPg&t=549

Status Report on HardenedBSD Infrastructure.
https://groups.google.com/a/hardenedbsd.org/forum/#!topic/users/ASqk28NqJ1k

BSD Now 313 – In Kernel TLS.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/313

Unix at 50 – How OS that Powered Smartphones Started from Failure.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/08/unix-at-50-it-starts-with-a-mainframe-a-gator-and-three-dedicated-researchers/

FreeBSD Foundation – simPRO Testimonial.
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/testimonial/simpro/

Irssi 1.2.2 Released.
https://irssi.org/2019/08/29/irssi-1.2.2-released/

OPNsense 19.7.3 Released.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=14011.0

Meet FreeBSD Project – Journey of 26 Years and Beyond.
https://hub.pfind.com/meet-freebsd-project/

More on FreeBSD Refcount Overflows.
https://secfault-security.com/blog/FreeBSD-SA-1924.mqueuefs.html

ZFS on Root Support in Ubuntu 19.10.
https://ubuntu.com/blog/enhancing-our-zfs-support-on-ubuntu-19-10-an-introduction

Using FreeBSD with Ports (1/2) – Classic Way with Tools.
https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2019/08/18/using-freebsd-with-ports-1-2-classic-way-with-tools/

Revive Old PC with GhostBSD.
https://youtu.be/Dx3oKPiHWWQ

OpenBSD – HTTPS Web Server With Let’s Encrypt.
https://penzin.net/openbsd-letsencrypt.html

Running WordPress on OpenBSD 6.5 with OpenBSD HTTPD.
https://www.vultr.com/docs/running-wordpress-on-openbsd-6-5-with-openbsds-httpd

FreeBSD Updates XFCE to 4.14.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240236

NetBSD WiFi on Raspberry Pi 3b+ SoC.
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/2019/08/31/msg006102.html

You Should Not Run Your Mail Server Because Mail is Hard.
https://poolp.org/posts/2019-08-30/you-should-not-run-your-mail-server-because-mail-is-hard/

High Availability SQLite.
https://dqlite.io/

In Other BSDs for 2019/08/31.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/08/31/23405.html

Hardware

AMD ZEN 2 Missives – 2019 – Matthew Dillon.
http://apollo.backplane.com/2019-Zen2Missive.html

Raspberry Pi 4 PCI Express – It Actually Works.
http://labs.domipheus.com/blog/raspberry-pi-4-pci-express-it-actually-works-usb-sata-gpu/

Cluster Server Backplane with Up to 11 SoC ARM Boards.
http://en.t-firefly.com/news/info/index/id/522.html

Geekbench 4 – Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Sets World Record.
Faster then Quad Intel Xeon Platinum 8180M.
https://www.servethehome.com/geekbench-4-2p-amd-epyc-7742-sets-world-record/

Other

How China is Still Paying Price for Squandering Its Chance to Build Home Grown Semiconductor Industry.
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3024687/how-china-still-paying-price-squandering-its-chance-build-home-grown

Baseline Interpreter – Faster JS Interpreter in Firefox 70.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/08/the-baseline-interpreter-a-faster-js-interpreter-in-firefox-70/

zFRAG – Zen Hard Disk Management Tool.
https://losttraindude.itch.io/zfrag

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