Valuable News – 2020/08/03

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

DragonFlyBSD Updates Its Intel/Radeon (Linux Ported) Graphics Driver Code.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DragonFlyBSD-DRM-4.12.14-Port

Dual Boot Install FreeBSD (with ZFS) Alongside Another OS.
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/uefi-gpt-dual-boot-how-to-install-freebsd-with-zfs-alongside-another-os-sharing-the-same-disk.75734/

WordPress Server Setup on OpenBSD.
https://daulton.ca/2020/03/openbsd-wordpress-server/

Zabbix Server Setup on OpenBSD.
https://daulton.ca/2020/03/openbsd-zabbix-server/

FreeBSD Foundation Got New Look.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/weve-got-a-new-look/

FreeBSD Foundation – FreeBSD Resources
https://freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd-project/resources/

5 Ways to Help FreeBSD.
https://youtu.be/cma_EBER0JM

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

FreeBSD 64bit Assembler (amd64).
https://honeyguide.eu/posts/asm64-fbsd/

BSD Weekly – Issue 30.
https://bsdweekly.com/issues/30

Refactoring FreeBSD Kernel with Checked C.
https://cs.rochester.edu/u/jzhou41/papers/freebsd_checkedc.pdf

FreeNAS 11.3-U4.1 Available.
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/library/freenas-11-3-u4-1/

Install and Configure FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi.
https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/samba-active-directory/freebsd-raspberry-pi.html

Setup BIND Slave DNS Server on FreeBSD.
https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/samba-active-directory/slave-dns.html

Active Directory Service with Samba on FreeBSD.
https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/samba-active-directory/samba.html

Deploy Users/Groups on Samba Based Active Directory Server on FreeBSD.
https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/samba-active-directory/deployment.html

BSD Now 361 – Function Based MicroVM.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/361

Call for Testing for Vendor OpenZFS in FreeBSD.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2020-July/056338.html

OPNsense 20.7 Legendary Lion Released.
https://opnsense.org/opnsense-20-7/

FreeBSD grub-bhyve Bootloader Virtual Machine Escapes.
https://github.com/renorobert/grub-bhyve-bugs

BootHole and Seven Other Vulnerabilities Patched in GNU GRUB2.
https://9to5linux.com/boothole-and-seven-other-vulnerabilities-patched-in-grub2-update-your-distros-now

Red Hat and CentOS Systems are not Booting Due to BootHole Patches.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/07/red-hat-and-centos-systems-arent-booting-due-to-boothole-patches/

Linus Torvalds on EFI Intel Brain Damage.
https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/efi.html

Introduction to ZFS – Place to Start.
https://www.servethehome.com/an-introduction-to-zfs-a-place-to-start/

In Other BSDs for 2020/08/01.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2020/08/01/24783.html

FreeBSD Foundation Celebrates 20th Anniversary.
https://www.tfir.io/freebsd-foundation-celebrates-20th-anniversary/

BSD Gaming is Improving – Proton on FreeBSD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfvbyWGkRW0

Testing Linux Steam Proton on GhostBSD (FreeBSD) with BSD Linuxulator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ihW0m3bRQ

Creating Wireguard VPN on OpenBSD.
https://xosc.org/wireguard.html

DragonflyBSD Imports AMD Temperature Driver and SMN Support from FreeBSD.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DragonFlyBSD-AMD-TEMP-SMN

Finding File Duplicates with fdupes(1) on FreeBSD.
https://rubenerd.com/finding-file-duplicates-with-fdupes/

Hardware

Purism Librem 14 Adds Microphone Kill Switch Enhancements.
https://puri.sm/posts/librem-14-adds-microphone-kill-switch-enhancements/

Why I Still Use Old PowerPC Mac in 2020.
https://www.howtogeek.com/682300/why-i-still-use-an-old-powerpc-mac-in-2020/

Sun Ultra 3 Mobile Workstation Review.
http://freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/sun_workstation/

List of Known SSDs with Internal 8k Blocks.
https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/blob/master/cmd/zpool/os/linux/zpool_vdev_os.c#L98

Life

Mysterious Case of Man Who Can Read Letters But Not Numbers.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/mysterious-case-man-who-can-read-letters-not-numbers-exposes-complex-roots

How One Hour of Slow Breathing Changed my Life.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jul/26/every-breath-you-take-the-lost-art-of-breathing

Other

Firefox 79 – Safe Return of Shared Memory/New Tooling/Platform Updates.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/07/firefox-79/

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