Valuable News – 2022/03/08

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

5 Alternative Operating Systems You May Not Know About.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R44TQHB_mHA

FreeBSD 12.2 End of Life.
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2022-March/000018.html

KDE Plasma 5.24 is Fantastic.
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/plasma-5-24-review.html

Zabbix 6.0.1 Out Now with FreeBSD Improvements.
https://www.zabbix.com/release_notes

OPNsense 22.1.2 Released.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=27253.0

Klara Systems – Improving Recovery Objectives with OpenZFS.
https://vimeo.com/682890916?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=127678719

FreeBSD Journal – 2022/01-02.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/past-issues/software-and-system-management/

Building FreeBSD Desktop from Scratch.
https://trihexagonal.org/tutorial.html

Setup Firewall on FreeBSD with PF.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnARtQrNrzk

Unix Philosophy – Quick Look at Ideas that Made Unix.
https://klarasystems.com/articles/unix-philosophy-a-quick-look-at-the-ideas-that-made-unix/

FreeBSD Jails for Home Datacenter with VNET and Netgraph.
https://neirac.byteswizards.com/posts/freebsd-hdc/

Zabbix 6.0 LTS – Next Leap in Monitoring.
https://blog.zabbix.com/zabbix-6-0-lts-the-next-great-leap-in-monitoring-by-alexei-vladishev-zabbix-summit-online-2021/17683/

Vulnerable Packages on FreeBSD with pkg audit Command.
https://linux-audit.com/vulnerable-packages-on-freebsd-pkg-audit/

FreeBSD Adds Support for Enabling SV48 Mode on RISC-V Architecture.
https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=31218f3209acf0f8f0dc54e436342c8fa604d279

BSD Now 444 – Historic Developments.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/444

On Overwriting Disks on OpenBSD.
https://amissing.link/overwriting-disks.html

Klara Systems – OpenZFS Native Encryption.
https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs-native-encryption/

Repo Update for FreeBSD Port Tree Routine.
https://daemondesktop.blogspot.com/2022/03/repo-update-routine.html

FreeBSD Adds New GEOM Utility gunion(8) to Recover Broken Disks.
https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=c7996ddf8000cfb19a9e91a636f56747860d03d7

The ioztat Tool for OpenZFS 2.0 Released.
https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/ioztat/tree/v2.0.0

New FreeBSD 13.1-PRERELEASE Snapshots Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-snapshots/2022-March/000063.html

Authoritative DNS Server Using Bind on FreeBSD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1SGEv07_fE

SerenityOS Browser Gets Some Improvements.
https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1499750525306388482

OpenBSD acme-client for Lets Encrypt Certificates.
https://obsd.solutions/en/blog/2022/03/04/openbsd-acme-client-70-for-letsencrypt-certificates/index.html

OpenBSD 7.1 with XFCE Runs Bare Metal Apple M1 MacBook Air.
https://old.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/t6qt2w/openbsd_71_beta_running_xfce4_bare_metal_on_an_m1/

Oracle Announces First Free for Personal Use Solaris 11.4 CBE Version.
https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/announcing-the-first-oracle-solaris-114-cbe

Oracle Creates New Form of Free Solaris.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/04/solaris_common_build_environments_free/

In Other BSDs for 2022/03/05.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2022/03/05/26717.html

What’s New in FreeBSD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91lRj5Qwh1s

Need Quick Website with WordPress on FreeBSD?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQPpGKm6WmI

8 Tools for FreeBSD Digital Artists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7cseFFIPY0

Install FVWM3 in FreeBSD – Quick Guide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMYHv7AqBYA

First Free Oracle Solaris 11.4 CBE.
https://www.solaris.wtf/blog/first-free-oracle-solaris-11-4-cbe/

New Dirty Pipe Vulnerability on Linux.
https://dirtypipe.cm4all.com/
https://twitter.com/jschauma/status/1500902369336434690

Hardware

AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS Rembrandt Zen3+ Benchmarked.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/17276/amd-ryzen-9-6900hs-rembrandt-benchmark-zen3-plus-scaling/

Lenovo Announces ARM CPU Based ThinkPad X13s Laptop.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/17286/lenovo-launches-the-thinkpad-x13s-laptop-powered-by-snapdragon-8cx-gen-3

HP ProDesk 405 G4 Mini Dual Internal 1GbE NICs.
https://www.servethehome.com/hp-prodesk-405-g4-mini-dual-internal-1gbe-nics-with-a-catch/

WD Red Pro 20TB Launched with Wickedly Weak Workload Rating.
https://www.servethehome.com/wd-red-pro-20tb-launched-with-wickedly-weak-workload-rating/

Why RISC-V is Succeeding.
https://semiengineering.com/why-risc-v-is-succeeding/

ITX-3588J 8K AI Mini-ITX with Rockchip RK3588 and 4 SATA and 32GB RAM.
https://en.t-firefly.com/product/industry/itx3588j

WD Red Pro NAS Hard Drive Endurance Ratings.
https://www.servethehome.com/discussing-low-wd-red-pro-nas-hard-drive-endurance-ratings/

Nvidia Drivers Will Be Open Source One Way or Another.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/03/cybercriminals-who-breached-nvidia-issue-one-of-the-most-unusual-demands-ever/

Firefly is Working on Rockchip RK3588 Mini-ITX Motherboard.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/03/05/firefly-itx3588j-rockchip-rk3588-mini-itx-motherboard/

Other

EU Plans to Mandate Less Secure Certificates in Browsers.
https://www.feistyduck.com/bulletproof-tls-newsletter/issue_86_eu_plans_to_mandate_less_secure_certificates_in_browsers

F-Droid No User Accounts by Design.
https://f-droid.org/en/2022/02/28/no-user-accounts-by-design.html

Write Plain Text Files.
https://sive.rs/plaintext

Campaign to Shut Down Crucial Documentary Tool youtube-dl Continues.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/campaign-shut-down-crucial-documentary-tool-youtube-dl-continues-and-so-does-fight

Mozilla Firefox Security Advisory 2022-09.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-09/

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