Valuable News – 2019/11/12

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

BSD Now 323 – OSI Burrito Guy.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/323

XigmaNAS 12.1.0.4.7091 Released.
https://www.xigmanas.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=14912

FuryBSD 12.0-XFCE-11-06-2019-01 Released.
https://www.furybsd.org/furybsd-12-0-xfce-11-06-2019-01-released/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57kRvDmt3Oc

Will the Real UNIX Please Stand Up?
https://hackaday.com/2019/11/05/will-the-real-unix-please-stand-up/

FreeBSD Implemented zpool sync Command.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=354436

Compelling Economic Benefits of OpenZFS Storage.
https://dcig.com/2019/11/the-compelling-economic-benefits-of-openzfs-storage.html

OpenIndiana Hipster 2019.10 is Here.
https://www.openindiana.org/2019/11/07/openindiana-hipster-2019-10-is-here/
http://docs.openindiana.org/release-notes/2019.10-release-notes/

FreeNAS 11.3 and TrueNAS 11.3 Make Their Debuts.
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/truenas-freenas-11-3-beta/

Netflix is Example of Great Open Source Corporate Patron to FreeBSD.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Netflix-FreeBSD-Contributions

NetBSD Stabilization of trace(2) Threads Continued.
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/stabilization_of_the_ptrace_21

OmniOSCE v11 r151032 Released.
https://github.com/omniosorg/omnios-build/blob/r151032/doc/ReleaseNotes.md

Netflix Optimized FreeBSD Network Stack More than Doubled AMD EPYC Performance.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Netflix-NUMA-FreeBSD-Optimized

Where OpenZFS is Going with Regard to FreeBSD/IllumOS/ZFSonLinux.
https://twitter.com/FreeBSDHelp/status/1191626200428367873

In Other BSDs for 2019/11/09.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/11/09/23713.html

FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE Announcement.
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.1R/announce.html
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.1R/relnotes.html

Open Letter to Linux Foundation.
https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2019/11/08/OpenLetterLinuxFoundation.html

FreeBSD iwm(4) Intel Wireless Driver got AC 9260/9270/946X/9560 Support.
https://twitter.com/FreeBSDHelp/status/1192736013480628225

OpenBSD ntpd(8) Changes.
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20191111075815

Changing CPU Scheduling Priority Inside SmartOS LX Zones.
https://wiedi.frubar.net/blog/2019/11/09/priocntl-in-lx/

IBM – Sonic Delay Lines and History of 80×24 Display.
http://www.righto.com/2019/11/ibm-sonic-delay-lines-and-history-of.html

Modifications on OpenBSD sysupgrade.
https://www.vincentdelft.be/post/post_20191030

NetBSD LLDB Threading Support Now Ready for Mainline.
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/lldb_threading_support_now_ready

FreeBSD Adds HBA Path in diskinfo Command.
https://twitter.com/f0andrey/status/1193241581849067520
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22249

OpenZFS 2.0 Out in 2020 with Unified Linux/FreeBSD Support.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenZFS-2.0-3.0-Planning

HardenedBSD Status Report.
https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2019-11-09/hardenedbsd-status-report

Hardware

AMD Rome Scalability is EPYC.
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/amd-rome-scalability-is-epyc/

Intel Performance Strategy Team Publishing Intentionally Misleading Benchmarks.
https://www.osnews.com/story/130873/intel-performance-strategy-team-publishing-intentionally-misleading-benchmarks/

AMD Threadripper Up to 32-Core 3970X.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15062/amds-2019-fall-update/

Does SMT Still Makes Sense?
https://www.codeblueprint.co.uk/2019/11/05/does-smt-make-sense.html

Life

It’s Not Enough to Be Right – You Also Have to Be Kind.
https://forge.medium.com/its-not-enough-to-be-right-you-also-have-to-be-kind-b8814111fe1

Other

Really Nice Royalty Free Music from Amadeus Washington.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJO5Y_8mT_4&list=UUG_xZTbsFslN-PY7sQ8rnKQ

Give Firefox Chance for Faster Calmer and Distraction Free Internet.
https://marko.fyi/firefox/

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