Valuable News – 2019/11/04

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

Six Prequels to FreeBSD Mastery: Jails book.
https://mwl.io/archives/4759

BSD Now 322 – Happy Birthday Unix.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/322

Protect VMware ESXi Virtual Machines with OpenBSD.
https://www.tumfatig.net/20191031/protect-the-esxi-virtual-machines-with-openbsd/

FreeBSD ZFS zlib zalloc/zfree Callbacks Rework Increases Write Speed from 60MB/s to 600MB/s.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=354159

FreeBSD – Installer Gnome.
https://blog.kharec.info/posts/freebsd-installer-gnome/

Brief History with Solaris.
https://ptribble.blogspot.com/2019/10/a-brief-history-with-solaris.html

Linux Professional Institute Releases BSD Specialist Certification.
https://www.lpi.org/articles/linux-professional-institute-releases-bsd-specialist-certification

OPNsense 19.7.6 Released.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=14843.0

MidnightBSD 1.2 Released.
https://www.midnightbsd.org/notes/

FreeBSD Adds -k Skel Option to mdmfs(8) to Populate from Skeleton.
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/eaf5615c2e04cd297c3cef17bc9d2e6d106d42ca

Running TLS 1.3 with OpenSSL and Nginx.
https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/nginx-tls-1.3/running-tls-1.3.html

Largest Amount of Bad Code – Oracle Database 12.2.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442637

Introducing FuryBSD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jL9tc81958

In Other BSDs for 2019/11/02.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/11/02/23669.html

SSH Handshake Explained.
https://gravitational.com/blog/ssh-handshake-explained/

OpenBSD on Google Compute Engine.
https://www.findelabs.com/post/openbsd-on-gce/

October CMS on OpenBSD.
https://dev.to/nabbisen/october-cms-on-openbsd-4g0i

Linux versus Open Source UNIX.
https://www.adminbyaccident.com/politics/linux-vs-open-source-unix/

Hardware

Running on Intel Securely Means Disabling Hyper-Threading says Linux Kernel Maintainer.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/29/intel_disable_hyper_threading_linux_kernel_maintainer/

PINETIME – Open Source Smartwatch for Your Favorite Devices.
https://www.pine64.org/pinetime/

Life

Fantasy of Opting Out.
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-fantasy-of-opting-out/

Microsoft Japan Experiment with 3 Days Weekend Boosts Worker Productivity by 40 Percent.
Microsoft Japan’s experiment with 3-day weekend boosts worker productivity by 40 percent

Other

Computer Files Are Going Extinct.
https://onezero.medium.com/the-death-of-the-computer-file-doc-43cb028c0506

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