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
HardenedBSD Infrastructure Goals.
https://github.com/lattera/articles/blob/master/hardenedbsd/2019-12-01_infrastructure/article.md
Homura – Windows Games Launcher for FreeBSD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B1h0F4rIs4
Bit Rot on RHEL – Only Way to Detect Corruption is dm-integrity Tool.
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/what-bit-rot-and-how-can-i-detect-it-rhel
FreeBSD Introduces Per Device Lock for devfs Subsystem.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=355228
First Release Candidate for NetBSD 9.0 Available.
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/first_release_candidate_for_netbsd
https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-9/NetBSD-9.0.html
FreeBSD 12.1 Runs Refreshingly Well with AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=freebsd-amd-3970x
ZFS sync/async and ZIL/SLOG Explained.
https://jrs-s.net/2019/05/02/zfs-sync-async-zil-slog/
Building High PerformanceSplunk SmartStores with MinIO.
Click to access Building-High-Performance-Splunk-SmartStores-with-MinIO.pdf
FreeBSD Added stats(3) to TCP Stack to Get Per Connection Stats.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=355304
FreeBSD Position in Cloud and IoT Makes Sense.
https://techhq.com/2019/12/freebsds-position-in-cloud-and-iot-makes-sense/
OmniOS Community Edition r151032e/r151030ae Available.
https://omniosce.org/article/030ae-032e
Phoronix Test Suite 9.2 Released.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Phoronix-Test-Suite-9.2
ZFS Learning Curve #1 – Installing FreeBSD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enh5E7FpekU
ZFS Learning Curve #2 – Dataset Fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5MDNr-QpvU
BastilleBSD Youtube Channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCniTnQDKIZN9ZTLPiyMI5eA
FreeBSD Updates KDE Plasma Desktop to 5.17.4 Version.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=519033
OpenBSD Multiple Authentication Vulnerabilities.
https://blog.qualys.com/laws-of-vulnerabilities/2019/12/04/openbsd-multiple-authentication-vulnerabilities
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/12/04/5
https://thehackernews.com/2019/12/openbsd-authentication-vulnerability.html
Bareos and NetApp are Partners.
https://www.bareos.com/en/company_news/netapp-en1.html
Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD – Inferring and Hijacking VPN Tunneled TCP Connections.
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2019/q4/122
Haiku Almost Monthly Activity Report – 2019/10-11.
https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/pulkomandy/2019-12-05_haiku_monthly_activity_report_-_november_2019/
How I Switched to Plan 9.
http://helpful.cat-v.org/Blog/2019/12/03/0/
FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE with 4017+ Uptime (More then 11 Years).
https://twitter.com/EdwinKremer/status/1203071684535889921
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ELIrUXPXkAIp5kY.jpg:large
NVIDIA Expected to Have Open Source Driver Announcement for 2020.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-Open-Source-GTC-20
Writing Daemon Using FreeBSD and Python Part 3.
https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2019/11/30/writing-a-daemon-using-freebsd-and-python-pt-3/
AMD Ryzen Build (for OpenBSD).
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/ryzen-build-for-openbsd
Easy Minecraft Server on FreeBSD.
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd/how-to-guides/easy-minecraft-server-on-freebsd/
In Other BSDs for 2019/12/07.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/12/07/23870.html
Return of pkg_validate for FreeBSD.
https://lonkamikaze.github.io/2019/12/07/bsda2-0.3.0-release-the-return-of-pkg_validate
NomadBSD 1.3 Released.
https://nomadbsd.org/index.html
Modest Home Server – Running FreeBSD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K1Jg2vEWRA
IBM – Sonic Delay Lines – History of 80Γ24 Display.
http://www.righto.com/2019/11/ibm-sonic-delay-lines-and-history-of.html
Raptor Computing is Working on More AMD Radeon Driver Improvements For IBM POWER.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Raptor-More-AMDGPU-POWER-Bits
Preview Image in Terminal Window with imcat.
https://github.com/stolk/imcat
OpenBSD Now Checks Packet Destination Address with IP Address Bound to Interface.
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=157580561114203&w=2
Firefox 71 on IBM POWER.
https://www.talospace.com/2019/12/firefox-71-on-power.html
Hardware
Mini PCs – Powered by AMD Ryzen Embedded CPUs.
https://www.amd.com/en/products/embedded-minipc-solutions
Entire AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16 Core CPU Inventory Sold Out in Japan.
https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-9-3950x-entire-inventory-outsold-japan-worldwide/
64 Bits Ought to Be Enough for Anybody.
64 Bits ought to be enough for anybody!
Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 and Snapdragon 765(G).
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15178/qualcomm-announces-snapdragon-865-and-765-5g-for-all-in-2020-all-the-details/
Life
10 Hour TRE Reduces Weight/Blood Pressure/Atherogenic Lipids in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome.
https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(19)30611-4
Lesson to Unlearn.
http://paulgraham.com/lesson.html
Other
Netflix and AWS Open Source Metaflow.
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/open-sourcing-metaflow-a-human-centric-framework-for-data-science-fa72e04a5d9
Personal and Social Information of 1.2 Billion People Discovered in Massive Data Leak.
https://www.dataviper.io/blog/2019/pdl-data-exposure-billion-people/
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