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
Using awk(1) to Pretty Display OpenBSD Packages Update Changes.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-12-04-openbsd-package-update-report.html
OpenIndiana 2021.10 Released with Better Hardware Support.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenIndiana-2021.10
Snowflake Tor Package for FreeBSD Now Available.
https://lists.nycbug.org:8443/pipermail/tor-bsd/2021-December/000769.html
OpenIndiana Hipster 2021.10 is Here.
https://www.openindiana.org/2021/12/05/openindiana-hipster-2021-10-is-here/
FreeBSD ARM64 Flexibility with Ampere and Klara.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDYmJ83xhxI
FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE Announcement.
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.3R/announce/
GhostBSD – Video 2 – Software and User Management.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7lXRU5re1c
LLDB FreeBSD Kernel Core Dump Support.
https://www.moritz.systems/blog/lldb-freebsd-kernel-core-dump-support/
BSD Weekly – Issue 96.
https://bsdweekly.com/issues/96
Using FreeBSD pkg audit to Investigate Known Security Issues.
https://klarasystems.com/articles/using-freebsds-pkg-audit-to-investigate-known-security-issues/
BSDDialog 0.0.1 is Ready.
https://alfonsosiciliano.gitlab.io/posts/2021-12-07-bsddialog.html
The helloSystem Development Update – Disk Images and Application Bundles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQsPPZultWo
Benchmarks: FreeBSD 13/NetBSD 9.2/OpenBSD 7.0/DragonFlyBSD 6.0/Linux.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=bsd-linux-eo2021
KDE Wants to Fix Every Linus Tech Tips Complaint
https://openforeveryone.net/articles/kde-fixing-every-ltt-complaint-plasma-ark/
FreeBSD Foundation – Supported Projects – Call for Ideas – 2021/11.
https://wiki.freebsd.org/2021FoundationCFI
FreeBSD on Slimbook – 14 Months of Updates.
https://euroquis.nl//freebsd/2021/12/11/slimbook.html
Adding Logitech Unifying Receiver Support to OpenBSD – Part 1.
https://jwinnie.tilde.institute/blog/logitech-pt1.html
In Other BSDs for 2021/12/11.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2021/12/11/26430.html
ZFS RAIDZ2 – Achieving 157 GB/s Speed.
https://neil.computer/notes/zfs-raidz2/
XigmaNAS 12.3.0.4.8948 Available.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xigmanas/files/XigmaNAS-12.3.0.4/12.3.0.4.8948/
Install OpenBSD7.0 on DigitalOcean.
https://marcocetica.com/posts/openbsd_digitalocean/
Hardware
Simple pfSense Solution.
https://www.fanlesstech.com/2021/12/simple-pfsense-solution.html
Kim McMahon – Director of Visibility and Community Engagement at RISC-V International.
https://www.opensourcevoices.org/25
StarFive RISC-V VisionFive SBC Officially for Sale.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/12/09/starfive-visionfive-single-board-computer-for-sale-accelerating-risc-v-ecosystem-development/
Sifive Essential 6-Series RISC-V Processor.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/12/10/sifive-essential-6-series-risc-v-processors-target-linux-real-time-applications/
OpenZFS 3.0 Introduced at Developer Summit.
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/openzfs-3-0-introduced-at-developer-summit/
BSD Now 432 – Introducing OpenZFS 3.0 – Yeah.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/432
ECS Releases New LIVA Z3 and Z3E Mini PC.
https://www.ecs.com.tw/en/news-detail/202112-1
Life
Groups Never Admit Failure.
https://nav.al/failure
Hacker News – Why is Everything Changing Too Fast?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29457930
IBM Employees Release Open Letter Questioning Company Vaccine Mandate.
https://www.newswire.com/news/ibm-employees-release-open-letter-questioning-companys-vaccine-mandate-21572583
Other
Responding to Tor Censorship in Russia.
https://blog.torproject.org/tor-censorship-in-russia/
Firefox 95.0 Release Notes.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/95.0/releasenotes/
Expanse – Collection of Paper Models.
https://www.galaxykits.com/download/the-expanse-zbior-modeli-papierowych/
Firefox 95 Might Be Most Secure Web Browser on Market.
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-new-firefox-95-might-be-the-most-secure-web-browser-on-the-market/
The Matrix is Unreal.
https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/the-matrix-is-unreal/
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