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
Docker vs Solaris Containers.
https://blog.karmacomputing.co.uk/docker-vs-solaris-containers-tldr-its-a-question-of-kernel-not-application-2/
Porting OpenBSD to RISC-V Final Report.
https://github.com/MengshiLi/openbsd-riscv-notes/raw/master/Porting_OpenBSD_to_RISCV_FinalReport.pdf
Change IP Address in FreeBSD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaCOrsXSUG0
Quick Publishing of FreeBSD Poudriere Packages.
https://euroquis.nl/freebsd/2021/03/08/poudriere.html
Restic for Fast Backups and Restores.
https://people.freebsd.org/~dch/posts/2021-03-05-restic-backups.html
License to Thrill: Ahead of FreeBSD 13.0 Team Talks About Linux and Completed Toolchain Project.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/10/the_state_of_freebsd/
OpenZFS 2.0.4 Released.
https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.0.4
Customizing the FreeBSD Kernel.
https://klarasystems.com/articles/customizing-the-freebsd-kernel/
Implement ‘Command not found‘ Handler in OpenBSD.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-03-09-openbsd-command-not-found.html
LPAR2RRD 7.10 Available.
https://lpar2rrd.com/announcements.php
STOR2RRD 7.10 Available.
https://stor2rrd.com/announcements.php
Easy SpamAssassin with OpenSMTPD on OpenBSD.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-03-10-smtpd-spamassassin.html
Dennis Ritchie First C Compiler (1972).
https://github.com/mortdeus/legacy-cc
BSD Now 393 – ZFS dRAID.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/393
Try bastille-autocomplete for Oldschool TCSH Shell – Autocompletion for BastilleBSD.
https://github.com/ddowse/bastille-autocomplete
Lessons Learned from 27 Years Old UNIX Book – Sun Performance and Tuning (1994).
https://www.linux.it/%7Eema/posts/porsche-book/
LibreOffice 7.0.5 Has Been Released.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/03/12/libreoffice-705/
Haiku 2021/02 Activity Report.
https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/pulkomandy/2021-03-08-haiku_activity_report_february_2021/
What is New in SQLite 3.35.
https://nalgeon.github.io/sqlite-3-35/
FreeBSD 13.0-RC2 Now Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2021-March/093294.html
The bectl(8) and beadm(8) – FreeBSD Gold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwevVfinBUs
What is New in FreeBSD 13.0.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZDD-ENdJgg
In Other BSDs for 2021/03/13.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2021/03/13/25541.html
Install ModSecurity 3 on FreeBSD.
https://www.adminbyaccident.com/freebsd/how-to-freebsd/how-to-install-modsecurity-3-on-freebsd/
Jailing Rust Tests with Procedural Macros on FreeBSD.
https://akhramov.github.io/posts/2021-03-08-jailed-tests.html
FreeBSD Poudriere Guide.
https://danschmid.de/en/blog/poudriere-guide
Czkawka is Simple/Fast/Easy App to Find/Remove Unnecessary Files.
https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka/releases/
https://twitter.com/vermaden/status/1370682524767248386
TEOS – Character Based C64 GUI Inspired by GEOS.
http://gamingretro.co.uk/teos-a-character-based-c64-gui-inspired-by-geos/
FreeBSD Software Collection Installer.
https://gitlab.com/alfix/softwaresets
FreeBSD Switches to git.
https://euroquis.nl//freebsd/2021/03/12/fbsd-git.html
Hardware
Thin Mini-ITX Motherboards from ASUS.
https://www.fanlesstech.com/2021/03/thin-mini-itx-motherboards-from-asus.html
I Want Computer that I Own.
http://misc-stuff.terraaeon.com/articles/computer-i-own.html
MIPS Becomes RISC-V.
https://www.eejournal.com/article/wait-what-mips-becomes-risc-v/
Pico-ITX Motherboard with Intel Tiger Lake UP3 and M.2/SATA/1GE/2.5GE/RAM32GB.
http://www.commell.com.tw/Product/SBC/LP-179.HTM
Is the AMIGA Computer Manufactured Today?
https://www.quora.com/Is-the-Amiga-computer-manufactured-today
VirtualBox OSE 6.1.18 on FreeBSD. Older 5.2.44 Preserved as Legacy Version.
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/commit/8651db19e5d968c39441cfd3b3f67b712ecbf89e
Chinese Loongson 16-Core MIPS 12nm CPU for 256-Core Servers to Launch Shortly.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/loongson-3a5000-3c-5000-to-launch-in-2021
ARMs Race – Ampere Altra Takes on AWS Graviton 2.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/arms-race-ampere-altra-takes-on-aws-graviton2/
Burn In Test – OLED vs LCD VA vs LCD IPS.
https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/permanent-image-retention-burn-in-lcd-oled?
AMD 3rd Generation EPYC Milan Review.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16529/amd-epyc-milan-review/
Seagate Roadmap: Path to 120 TB Hard Drives.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16544/seagates-roadmap-120-tb-hdds
Life
Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras Exposing Tesla/Jails/Hospitals.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-09/hackers-expose-tesla-jails-in-breach-of-150-000-security-cams?sref=ylv224K8
Other
Israel/Cyprus/Greece Agree to Link Power Grids via Subsea Cable.
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2B015M
RFC3339 Addresses ISO 8601 Standard for Representation of Dates and Times.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339
I Guess I Have to Watch Ads Everywhere on My $1500 LG TV Now.
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2021/3/10/22323790/lg-oled-tv-commercials-content-store
Researchers Design Website that Can Steal Data Ffrom Intel and Apple M1 CPUs Using Web Browsers.
https://www.hardwaretimes.com/researchers-design-website-that-can-steal-data-from-intel-and-apple-m1-cpus-using-web-browsers/
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