Valuable News – 2020/11/02

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

EXT4 (and FUSE) on FreeBSD.
https://euroquis.nl/freebsd/2020/10/26/fuse.html

NetBSD qat(4) Driver Ported to FreeBSD.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2020-October/056634.html

Request to Security Researchers from Illumos.
https://kebe.com/blog/?p=505

Build DragonflyBSD Using Clang 10 Compiler.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2020/10/26/25101.html

FreeBSD GNOME 3.38.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdEx81Rr5-8

OpenBSD Added AMD IOMMU and Intel VT-d Support to vmd Daemon.
https://twitter.com/OpenBSD_src/status/1320921999879729152

FreeBSD Fridays – Introduction to Bhyve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXi1xaUqr20

FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE Now Available.
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.2R/announce.html
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.2R/hardware.html

Ubuntu Based Linux Jail on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE.
https://wiki.freebsd.org/LinuxJails

BSD Weekly – Issue 43.
https://bsdweekly.com/issues/43

On Abandoning X11 Server.
https://ajaxnwnk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-abandoning-x-server.html
https://old.reddit.com/r/wayland/comments/85q78y/why_im_not_going_to_switch_to_wayland_yet/

Boycott Wayland – It Breaks Everything.
https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277

Video – C Programming on MacOS System 6 – Porting OpenBSD diff(1) Tool.
https://jcs.org/2020/10/28/openbsd_diff

Upgrading from FreeBSD 12.1 to 12.2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AThaDfRWzlc

OpenVPN as Default Gateway on OpenBSD.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2020-10-27-openbsd-openvpn.html

BSD Now 374 – OpenBSD 25th Anniversary.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/374

awk: BEGIN.
https://jemma.dev/blog/awk-part-1

How OpenBSD-stable Packages are Built.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2020-10-29-official-openbsd-stable-architecture.html

Klara Systems – OpenZFS – Using zpool iostat to Monitor Pool Performance and Health.
https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs-using-zpool-iostat-to-monitor-pool-perfomance-and-health/

FreeBSD Essential to Bringing CHERI and ARM Morello Processor to Life.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/latest-news/freebsd-essential-to-bringing-cheri-and-arms-morello-processor-to-life/

Simple Solution for Outgoing Mail from FreeBSD System.
https://jpmens.net/2020/03/05/simple-solution-for-outgoing-mail-from-a-freebsd-system/

FreeBSD on Lenovo ThinkPad X270.
https://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x270/

Dennis Ritchie Day.
https://www.oreilly.com/content/dennis-ritchie-day/

OpenBSD 6.8 Cannot Boot on Some Intel Boards.
https://www.vincentdelft.be/post/post_20201031

In Other BSDs for 2020/10/31.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2020/10/31/25104.html

Port of the Week – rclone.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2020-10-28-portoftheweek-rclone.html

Klara Systems – OpenZFS – Understanding Transparent Compression.
https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs1-understanding-transparent-compression/

Neighbourly Solution to X is Deprecated Conundrum.
https://www.divergent-desktop.org/blog/2020/10/29/improving-x/

HardenedBSD 2020/10 Status Report.
https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2020-10-31/hardenedbsd-october-2020-status-report

FuryBSD Project is Dead.
https://www.furybsd.org/

SerenityOS 2020/10 Update.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-IFGxw-kV4

FreeBSD 12.2 Released – Supports Linux in Jail and Has Better Hardware Support.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-12.2-Released

Sheridan Computers – Upgrade FreeNAS 11.3 to TrueNAS CORE 12.0.
https://youtu.be/zDxlLwOUoUw

OpenIndiana Hipster 2020.10 Released.
https://www.openindiana.org/2020/11/01/openindiana-hipster-2020-10-is-here/
http://docs.openindiana.org/release-notes/2020.10-release-notes/

Firefox Gamepad API on FreeBSD.
https://waitman.net/Firefox-gamepad-FreeBSD.php

OmniOS v11 r151036 Release Notes.
https://github.com/omniosorg/omnios-build/blob/r151036/doc/ReleaseNotes.md

Hardware

Chuwi LarkBox Pro Mini PC Gets Faster Intel J4125 Processor.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/10/27/chuwi-larkbox-pro-mini-pc-gets-a-faster-celeron-j4125-processor/

AMD in $35 Billion All Stock Acquisition of Xilinx.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16196/amd-in-35-billion-allstock-acquisition-of-xilinx

AMIGA 1000 Phoenix Enhanced Motherboard
https://www.osnews.com/story/132524/the-amiga-1000-phoenix-enhanced-motherboard/
https://retrohax.net/amiga-1000-project-phoenix-motherborad/
https://www.amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?t=476
http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/phoenix

AMD Reveals Radeon RX 6000 Series – RDNA2.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16202/amd-reveals-the-radeon-rx-6000-series-rdna2-starts-at-the-highend-coming-november-18th

Looking Back on 35 Years as Amiga User.
https://bytecellar.com/2020/10/27/looking-back-on-35-years-as-an-amiga-user/

Rare Fanless Acer AIO.
https://www.fanlesstech.com/2020/10/rare-fanless-aio.html

Heart of RISC-V Development – Mini-ITX SiFive HiFive Unmatched.
https://www.sifive.com/blog/the-heart-of-risc-v-development-is-unmatched
https://sifive.cdn.prismic.io/sifive%2F5ec09861-351b-420c-b6e3-e2b76843044f_linley+report+-+sifive+raises+risc-v+performance.pdf

SiFive Launches Most Compelling RISC-V Mini-ITX Development Board Yet.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=sifive-riscv-unmatched

Best Consumer Hard Drives 2020/10.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12075/best-consumer-hdds

ARM64 Processor Marvell ThunderX3 Cancelled – Team Laid Off.
https://twitter.com/tpains/status/1322253556364140545

Researchers Extract Secret Key Used to Encrypt Intel CPU Code.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/10/in-a-first-researchers-extract-secret-key-used-to-encrypt-intel-cpu-code/

SolidRun HoneyComb LX2K.
https://shop.solid-run.com/product/SRLX216S00D00GE064H06CH/

Raspberry Pi 400 Keyboard Computer.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/11/02/raspberry-pi-400-keyboard-computer-features-1-8-ghz-bcm2711c0-processor/

Other

Jerome Gardou Hired Full Time to Work on ReacOS Memory Manager.
https://reactos.org/project-news/jerome-gardou-hired-full-time/

RIAA youtube-dl Takedown Ticks Off Developers and GitHub CEO.
https://torrentfreak.com/riaas-youtube-dl-takedown-ticks-of-developers-and-githubs-ceo-201027/

Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project Into Political Ads Targeting.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-seeks-shutdown-of-nyu-research-project-into-political-ad-targeting-11603488533

New youtube-dl 2020.11.01.1 Released.
https://youtube-dl.org/

Brutalist HTML.
https://secretgeek.github.io/html_wysiwyg/html.html

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