Valuable News – 2020/01/20

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

DistroWatch Switched from Debian Linux to FreeBSD [AMA].
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/eodhit/switching_distrowatch_over_to_freebsd_ama/
https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/eogcjo/switching_distrowatch_over_to_freebsd_ama/
https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=faq#mydistro
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20200120
https://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=https://distrowatch.com&refresh=1

Shop FreeBSD – Created by FreeBSD Foundation – Place to Order Merchandise.
https://www.zazzle.com/store/shopfreebsd

Stats on How Many Monthly People Committing to Various BSD Projects.
https://twitter.com/canadianbryan/status/1216893706655215616

FreeNAS 11.3-RC2 Available.
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/library/freenas-11-3-rc2/

BSD Weekly 2020/01/15.
https://bsdweekly.com/issues/3

Running syslog-ng in BastilleBSD.
https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/running-syslog-ng-in-bastillebsd

Linux Kernel – CDDL – Related Issues.
https://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2016/linux-kernel-cddl.html

KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS Beta.
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.17.90.php

BSD Now 333 – Unix Keyboard Joy.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/333

You Can Vote Now – 2019 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards.
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2019-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-awards-129/?pp=50&sort=lastpost&order=desc&daysprune=-1

ConnectX-4 Lx on FreeBSD on 2 x AMD EPYC 7282 and 2 TB RAM and 24 x Micron 9300 MAX NVMe.
https://community.mellanox.com/s/question/0D51T000076tvV0/connectx4-lx-on-freebsd-on-amd-epyc-platform

Make Disk Image Formatted as ZFS/ext2/FAT All at Once with cursedfs.
https://github.com/pcd1193182/cursedfs

In Other BSDs for 2019/01/18.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2020/01/18/24058.html

PeerTube 1.4.1 on OpenBSD 6.6.
https://www.22decembre.eu/en/2019/12/09/peertube-14-openbsd/

Upgrading FreeBSD from 11.3 to 12.1.
Upgrading FreeBSD from 11.3 to 12.1

Many Ways to Launch FreeBSD in EC2.
https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2018-12-26-the-many-ways-to-launch-FreeBSD-in-EC2.html

FreeBSD is Amazing Operating System.
https://www.unixsheikh.com/articles/freebsd-is-an-amazing-operating-system.html

FreeBSD Presentations and Papers from LINUX.CONF.AU 2020.
https://papers.freebsd.org/2020/linux.conf.au/

Why You Should Migrate Everything from Linux to BSD.
https://www.unixsheikh.com/articles/why-you-should-migrate-everything-from-linux-to-bsd.html

Hardware

Look at Celerity 2nd Generation 496-Core RISC-V Mesh.
https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/3217/a-look-at-celeritys-second-gen-496-core-risc-v-mesh-noc/

AMD Ryzen Mobile 4000 Renoir Die Size.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15381/amd-ryzen-mobile-4000-measuring-renoirs-die-size

Everything I Know About SSDs 2019.
http://kcall.co.uk/ssd/index.html

PinePhone Start Shipping – All You Need To Know.
https://www.pine64.org/2020/01/15/pinephones-start-shipping-all-you-want-to-know/
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/01/the-pinephone-starts-shipping-a-linux-powered-smartphone-for-150/

Trying Out Pinebook Pro $200 ARM Laptop.
https://www.jeremymorgan.com/blog/linux/pine64-pro-laptop-review/

Another Performance Hit After Intel Mitigation for CVE-2019-14615/SA-00314 Graphics Vulnerability.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel-gen7-hit
https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/epdc4h/intels_mitigation_for_cve201914615_graphics/

Life

Other

Ask Hacker News – What Are the Best Unknown Books You Have Read?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22092108

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