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
LiveUSB with OpenBSD – Unofficial Bootable OpenBSD for USB Stick.
http://liveusb-openbsd.sourceforge.net/
How ZFS Saved Me from Data Corruption.
https://battlepenguin.com/tech/zfs-woes-or-how-zfs-saved-me-from-data-corruption/
Lesser Known PostgreSQL Features.
https://hakibenita.com/postgresql-unknown-features
UNIX Mouse Shootout.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2021/11/09/unix-mouse-shootout/
LXQt 1.0.0 Released.
https://lxqt-project.org/release/2021/11/06/lxqt-1-0-0/
Simple SSH Security.
https://disknotifier.com/blog/simple-ssh-security/
New LZ4 TOAST Compression in PostgreSQL 14.
https://www.postgresql.fastware.com/blog/what-is-the-new-lz4-toast-compression-in-postgresql-14
Install JWM on FreeBSD.
https://www.danschmid.me/article/install-jwm-on-freebsd
Upgrading to PostgreSQL 14 on FreeBSD 13.
https://henvic.dev/posts/postgres-14-freebsd-13/
What Every IT Person Needs to Know About OpenBSD – Part 3 – PF.
https://blog.apnic.net/2021/11/11/openbsd-part-3-that-packet-filter/
Install Enlightenment on FreeBSD.
https://www.danschmid.me/article/install-enlightenment-on-freebsd
FreeBSD Foundation – Fall 2021 Update.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/newsletter/freebsd-foundation-fall-2021-update/
How We Saved Millions in SSD Costs by Upgrading Our Filesystem.
https://heap.io/blog/how-we-saved-millions-in-ssd-costs-by-upgrading-our-filesystem
FreeBSD Paste Service.
https://bsd.to/
OPNsense 21.7.5 Released.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=25535.0
Colin Percival Was Able to Squeeze the FreeBSD 14-CURRENT Boot Time to 3 Seconds Only.
https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1459027530896199681
What is Etymology of cron(8) on UNIX?
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-etymology-of-cron
BSD Now 428 – Cult of BSD.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/428
FreeBSD 12.3-RC1 Now Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2021-November/000321.html
FreeBSD Documentation – Papers We Love to Read.
https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-documentation-papers-we-love-to-read/
Creating Custom FreeBSD AMIs for Jenkins – Part 2.
https://beerdy.io/2021/11/creating-custom-freebsd-amis-for-jenkins-part-2/
HardenedBSD Call For Testing – Removing and Hardening Sensitive Files.
https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2021-11-12/call-testing-removing-and-hardening-sensitive-files
XigmaNAS 12.2.0.4.8785 Released.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xigmanas/files/XigmaNAS-12.2.0.4/12.2.0.4.8785/
In Other BSDs for 2021/11/13.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2021/11/13/26339.html
FreeBSD Tomato for All Unix Lovers.
https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/1459566661770493955
New automount 1.7.6 for FreeBSD Available.
https://twitter.com/vermaden/status/1460283883035975683
Hardware
AMD Bergamo with 128 ZEN 4c Cores and Genoa with 96 ZEN 4 Cores.
https://www.servethehome.com/amd-bergamo-to-hit-128-cores-and-genoa-at-96-cores/
How to Make a CPU – Simple Picture Based Explanation.
https://blog.robertelder.org/how-to-make-a-cpu/
Lenovo ThinkEdge SE50 Review.
https://www.servethehome.com/lenovo-thinkedge-se50-review-when-lenovo-gets-edgy/
ECS LIVA Mini Box QC710 Desktop $219 ARM Developer Kit.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/11/15/ecs-liva-mini-box-qc710-desktop-windows-on-am-devkit/
Other
You Should Use Forums Rather than Slack/Discord.
https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3451
JP Morgan Chase Bank Admits they Hate Linux/BSD Desktops and Actively Block Them.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/qu78cg/jp_morgan_chase_bank_admitting_to_me_they_hate/
JP Morgan Chase Bank or Why Not to Whitelist Operating System User Agents.
https://www.neelc.org/posts/chase-how-not-to-design-a-website/
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