Valuable News – 2019/12/23

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

FreeBSD Adds Sysctls to Control NVME TRIM stuff.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=355831

FreeBSD Adds ^T SIGINFO [CTRL-T] Status for Linux Binaries.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=355820

NomadBSD Look for OpenBSD.
https://www.tumfatig.net/20191216/a-nomadbsd-look-for-openbsd/

The rv8 is RISC-V Simulator for x86-64.
https://rv8.io/

New Page for KDE/FreeBSD Initiative.
https://freebsd.kde.org/

Your Impact on FreeBSD in 2019.
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/your-impact-on-freebsd-in-2019/

Arduino Development on OpenBSD.
https://jcs.org/2019/12/17/arduino

Love BSD? Get Paid to Share Your Knowledge.
https://www.i-bsd.com/contribute/

Data Infrastructures – ZFS Survival Guide.
https://blog.dionresearch.com/2019/12/data-infrastructures-zfs-survival-guide.html

Run Your Own OpenBSD Server.
http://eradman.com/posts/run-your-own-server.html

OPNsense 19.7.8 Released.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=15304.0

BSD Now 329 – Lucas Arts.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/329

OpenIndiana 2019.10 Hipster Distrowatch Review.
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20191216

NomadBSD 1.3 Distrowatch Review.
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20191223

Python 2 to Be Retired by 2020/04.
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2019/12/python-2-sunset.html

Now random(4) on FreeBSD Allows Concurrency.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=349154
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=355930

Core i9-10980XE DragonFlyBSD and FreeBSD Benchmarks.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel-10980xe-bsd&num=2

Escape from systemd Episode VI – Freedom in Sight.
https://davmac.wordpress.com/2019/12/18/escape-from-system-d-episode-vi-freedom-in-sight/

FreeNAS 11.2-U7 Available.
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/library/freenas-11-2-u7/

In Other BSDs for 2019/12/21.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/12/21/23930.html

BMT – Bhyve Management Tool.
https://github.com/ateamsystems/bmt

Block Bad Host using pf-badhost with PF Firewall.
https://geoghegan.ca/pfbadhost.html

Hardware

VIA/Centaur Unveils Its New Server Class X86 Core with CNS and AVX-512.
https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/3099/centaur-unveils-its-new-server-class-x86-core-cns-adds-avx-512/

Zhaoxin Announces KX-40000 and KX-7000 on X86 Architecture with 32 Cores and 7nm Process.
https://www.hardwaretimes.com/zhaoxin-announces-kx-40000-and-kx-7000-architectures-with-32-cores-and-7nm-process-chinese-intel/

Apple Drops Hint About Return Retro Laptop ‘Powerbook’.
https://stockdailydish.com/apple-drops-hint-about-the-return-retro-laptop-powerbook/

Purism Librem Servers.
https://puri.sm/products/librem-server/

Librem 5 – My Thoughts.
https://kevq.uk/librem-5-my-thoughts/

PinePhone Review.
https://drewdevault.com//2019/12/18/PinePhone-review.html

ADATA XPG SX6000 Pro 1TB SSD Review.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15139/the-adata-xpg-sx6000-pro-1tb-ssd-review/

Western Digital Samples 20TB SMR HDDs and 18TB CMR HDDs.
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/western-digital-starts-sampling-20-tb-hdds-with-smr-and-18-tb-hdds-with-cmr.html

ThinkPad W500 vs W541 User Experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQyyOGPwde4

Other

Cleaning and Optimizing Windows Computer Safely.
https://decentsecurity.com/holiday-tasks/

Stop Activating Screensaver by Sending F24 Keystroke.
https://raymii.org/s/software/ScreenSaverStopper.html

Modern Web is Becoming Unusable User Hostile Wasteland.
https://omarabid.com/the-modern-web

Driving Sideways to Move Forward – Autonomous Drifting DeLorean.
https://news.stanford.edu/2019/12/20/autonomous-delorean-drives-sideways-move-forward/

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