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
Document Foundation Announces LibreOffice 7.2.3 Community.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/11/25/libreoffice-7-2-3-community/
No systemd(1) – If This is Solution I Want My Problem Back.
https://nosystemd.org/
FreeBSD Build Option Continuous Integration.
https://callfortesting.org/results/bos-ci/
FreeBSD Documents _limits | _login_class | _oomprotect in rc.conf(5) File.
https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=bd6dce978c1a4d4472c98ff5685de3c2f2bd0203
The asciinema is Now 4x Smaller and 50x Faster.
https://blog.asciinema.org/post/smaller-faster/
HardenedBSD 2021/11 Status Report.
https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2021-11-30/hardenedbsd-november-2021-status-report
Amazon Adds OpenZFS for FSx.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-fsx-for-openzfs/
KDE Plasma 5.23.4 – Bugfix Release for November.
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.23.4/
Pythonic Way to Setup Python Development Environment on FreeBSD.
https://gist.github.com/Linux-BSD/afaa29bf5342c468c0594be665878f87
Enabling Insults in doas(1) Command.
https://jo.ie/doas-insults.html
NanoPi R4S – ARM64 – FreeBSD.
https://www.pbdigital.org/post/2021-11-15-freebsd-arm-r4s/
Restoring Sun SPARCstation IPX Part 1 – PSU and NVRAM.
https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/restoring-a-sun-sparcstation-ipx-part-1-psu-and-nvram
Home Network Monitoring Using Prometheus on FreeBSD.
https://mostly-bsd.github.io/post/monitoring/
BSD Now 431 – FreeBSD EC2 Agents.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/431
Haiku Booting RISC-V Images.
https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/kallisti5/2021-11-07_booting_our_risc-v_images/
Adjust Time Quickly at Boot on Solaris Servers .
https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.com/2021/12/adjust-time-quickly-at-boot-on-solaris.html
Intel 8265 Bluetooth on FreeBSD.
https://www.davidschlachter.com/misc/freebsd-intel-8265-bluetooth
OpenBSD 7.0 Install on amd64 with AMD Ryzen 5 and VEGA 64 GPU.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMK47caQ-yk
DragonflyBSD Got dsynth(1) Updates.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2021/11/30/26412.html
Getting Started with GhostBSD – Video 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOzKPjLnrDg
Creating Solaris 10 Zone on OpenIndiana.
https://rqsall.com/posts/creating-a-solaris-10-zone-on-openindiana
Cross Platform Package Building: pkgsrc vs. Ravenports (2/2).
https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2021/12/05/cross-platform-package-building-pkgsrc-vs-ravenports-2-2/
XigmaNAS 12.2.0.4.8903 Available.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xigmanas/files/XigmaNAS-12.2.0.4/12.2.0.4.8903/
Blender 3.0 Released.
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/3-0/
In Other BSDs for 2021/12/04.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2021/12/04/26408.html
Install FreeBSD 13 as KVM Guest on POWER9.
https://twitter.com/bloudraak/status/1467652231981715457
Linux Hates Me – Daily Driver Challenge – Part 1.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=0506yDSgU7M
Linux Hates Me – Daily Driver Challenge – Part 2.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=3E8IGy6I9Wo
Linux Hates Me – Daily Driver Challenge – Part 3.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=TtsglXhbxno
Hardware
ASUS RS720Q-E10-RS24 2U 4 Node Twin Server Review.
https://www.servethehome.com/asus-rs720q-e10-rs24-2u-4-node-server-review-2u4n-intel/
Seagate Exos X20 and IronWolf Pro Expand Retail 20TB HDD Options.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/17099/seagate-exos-x20-and-ironwolf-pro-20tb-expand-retail-20tb-hdd-options
SiFive Performance P650 RISC-V Core to Outperform ARM Cortex-A77 Performance per Size.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/12/03/sifive-performance-p650-risc-v-core-to-outperform-arm-cortex-a77-performance-per-mm2/
SiFive Raises RISC-V Performance Bar with New SiFive P650 Processor.
https://www.sifive.com/press/sifive-raises-risc-v-performance-bar-with-new-best-in-class
Western Digital Spills Beans on HDD Plans – 30TB HDDs Planned – MAMR Future Unclear.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/17097/western-digital-30tb-hdd-plans-mamr-future-unclear
Imagination Launches Catapult Family of RISC-V CPU Cores.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/17104/imagination-launches-catapult-family-of-riscv-cpu-cores
Life
Skills or Grades – What Matters More for Successful Career?
https://sunnylabh.medium.com/skills-or-grades-what-matters-more-for-a-successful-career-d39e62841803
Global CO2 Emissions Have Been Flat for Decade – New Data Reveals.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/global-co2-emissions-have-been-flat-for-a-decade-new-data-reveals
Had COVID? You Will Probably Make Antibodies for Lifetime.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01442-9
Other
Firefox is the Only Alternative.
https://batsov.com/articles/2021/11/28/firefox-is-the-only-alternative/
Google Chromium Sans Integration with Google.
https://ungoogled-software.github.io/
DESQview/X – Forgotten 90s OS from the Future.
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/desqviewx-the-forgotten-mid-1990s
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