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