Valuable News – 2019/10/18

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

Sun Microsystems – Look Back at Tech Company Ahead of Its Time.
https://thenewstack.io/sun-microsystems-a-look-back-at-a-tech-company-ahead-of-its-time/

Trying FreeBSD for The First Time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGpMDJh9ffE

Apple of 2019 is Linux of 2000.
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2019/10/apple-of-2019-is-linux-of-2000.html

Sudo Flaw Lets Linux Users Run Commands as Root Even When They Are Restricted.
https://thehackernews.com/2019/10/linux-sudo-run-as-root-flaw.html

GhostBSD Versus Linux (MX/Manjaro/Mint).
RAM Usage Results:

1st  237MB  GhostBSD 19.09
2nd  339MB  MX Linux 18.3
3rd  354MB  Linux Mint 19.2
4th  576MB  Manjaro Linux 18.1.0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fes9o5iI0J8

KDE Plasma 5.17.0.
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.17.0.php

KDE Plasma 5.17.0 Landed in FreeBSD.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=514577

Stupid Unix Tricks.
https://sneak.berlin/20191011/stupid-unix-tricks/

Dealing with Misunderstandings of What is GhostBSD.
http://ghostbsd.org/node/194

GhostBSD 19.09 – Based on FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE and Using MATE Desktop 1.22.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5lyh-SJWR0

Haiku Monthly Activity Report – 2019/09.
https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/pulkomandy/2019-10-03_haiku_monthly_activity_report_-_september_2019/

BSD Now 320 – Codebase: Neck Deep.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/320

ASCII Table and History.
https://bestasciitable.com/

Tiling Window Manager Descended from Ratpoison – sdorfehs – Pronounced “starfish”.
https://github.com/jcs/sdorfehs

Visual Studio Code Port for FreeBSD.
https://github.com/tagattie/FreeBSD-VSCode

The .Net Core 3.0.0 for FreeBSD 12.
https://github.com/jasonpugsley/core-sdk/wiki/.Net-Core-3.0.0-for-FreeBSD-12

OpenBSD 6.6 Released.
https://www.openbsd.org/66.html
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20191017135642

The UNIX Game – Solve Puzzles Using UNIX Pipes.
https://unixgame.io/unix50

Firefox is the Most Secure Browser by Bundesamt fur Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik. [GERMAN]
https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/BSI/Mindeststandards/Mindeststandard_Sichere_Web-Browser_V2_0.pdf

 

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