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
Check Hard Drive Health on FreeBSD with smartctl CLI.
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-check-hard-drive-health-on-freebsd/
New Binary Packages for DragonflyBSD Based on 2022Q1 from FreeBSD Ports.
https://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2022-March/404989.html
The ntfs2btrfs Converts NTFS to BTRFS Filesystem.
https://www.osnews.com/story/134647/ntfs2btrfs-convert-ntfs-to-btrfs/
https://github.com/maharmstone/ntfs2btrfs
The elementary OS is Imploding.
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/elementary-os-is-imploding
Simple and Secure VPN in FreeBSD – Introducing WireGuard.
https://klarasystems.com/articles/simple-and-secure-vpn-in-freebsd/
Linux vs FreeBSD – My Thoughts on Debate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx_dfhNLr7o
FreeBSD on Lenovo Thinkpad T480.
https://www.davidschlachter.com/misc/t480-freebsd
Nvidia 5.10 Drivers on FreeBSD with OpenGL/Vulkan/VDPAU Working in Ubuntu Linux Compat.
https://gist.github.com/Mostly-BSD/4d3cacc0ee2f045ed8505005fd664c6e
Going to Jail on FreeBSD.
https://rkey.tech/docs/vps_migration/going2jail/
Optimizing FreeBSD Power Consumption on Modern Intel Laptops.
https://www.neelc.org/posts/optimize-freebsd-for-intel-tigerlake/
Making RockPro64 a NetBSD Server.
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/making_rockpro64_a_netbsd_server
Haiku Activity and Contract Report 2022/02.
https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2022-03-07_haiku_activity_contract_report_february_2022/
List of Security Mitigations in All Solaris Versions.
https://github.com/alanc/exploit_mitigations/blob/solaris_mitigations/solaris_mitigations.md
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report 2021 Q4.
https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2021-10-2021-12/
FreeBSD 13.1-BETA1 Now Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2022-March/000571.html
BSD Now 445 – Journey to BSD.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/445
FreeBSD 13.1-BETA Headlined by Changes uo POWER and RISC-V Architectures.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-13.1-Beta-1
FreeBSD Shortening Boot Time – ASLR by Default – Better Intel WiFi Support.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-Q4-2021-Status
My Lazy Approach to FreeBSD Dual Booting.
https://rubenerd.com/my-lazy-approach-to-freebsd-dual-booting/
BLAKE3 Added as Checksum Option to OpenZFS.
https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/11897
In Other BSDs for 2022/03/12.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2022/03/12/26744.html
FreeBSD Changes mixer(8) Command Line Interface and Features.
https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=e83a53ab
FreeBSD on CubieBoard2.
https://www.cambus.net/freebsd-on-the-cubieboard2/
ReactOS Making Progress on SMP Support.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ReactOS-SMP-Desktop-Boot-2022
OnLogic Factor 201 Raspberry Pi Industrial IoT Gateway.
https://www.onlogic.com/fr201/
My Essential Firefox Fixes (and Addons) in 2022.
https://rubenerd.com/my-essential-firefox-fixes-in-2022/
ZFS on Single Core RISC-V Hardware with 512 MB on Debian.
https://andreas.welcomes-you.com/zfs-risc-v-512mb-lichee-rv/
OpenBSD Adds mtw(4) Driver for MediaTek MT7601U WiFi Devices.
https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220310135156
Katana Desktop on FreeBSD – Light and Fast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPbd-7BkDDg
ZFS Boot Environments Revolutions.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2022/03/14/zfs-boot-environments-revolutions/
Work with FreeBSD in Google Summer of Code 2022.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/work-with-freebsd-in-google-summer-of-code/
BSD Desktops – NetBSD Steps Up to Plate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0S60z4eQ6s
Hardware
AMD Announces Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 WX-Series – Zen 3 For OEM Workstations.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/17296/amd-announces-ryzen-threadripper-pro-5000-wx-series-zen-3-core-for-oem-workstations
AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 Series Launched.
https://www.servethehome.com/amd-ryzen-threadripper-pro-5000-series-launched/
Kioxia PM7 24G SAS4 SSDs with Capacities Up to 30 TB.
https://www.servethehome.com/kioxia-pm7-24g-sas4-ssds-launched/
Apple M1 Ultra Tapes Two M1 Max Chips Together.
https://www.osnews.com/story/134649/apples-m1-ultra-tapes-two-m1-max-chips-together/
Backblaze Drive Stats for 2021.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2021/
Backblaze Drive Stats for 2021 – SSD Edition.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ssd-edition-2021-drive-stats-review/
HP EliteDesk 805 G6 Mini Review – Great AMD Ryzen 1L PC.
https://www.servethehome.com/hp-elitedesk-805-g6-mini-review-a-great-amd-ryzen-1l-pc/
BIVROST Lite5 Mini STX Motherboard with Up to 96 GB RAM.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/03/14/bivrost-lite5-mini-stx-motherboard-takes-up-to-96gb-ram-for-machine-vision-applications/
Life
Just Say No to CBDCs.
https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/just-say-no-to-cbdcs?s=r
Other
Free Heroes of Might and Magic II (fheroes2) Recreation Got Upgrades.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/heroes-of-might-and-magic-ii-reimplementation-fheroes2-gets-some-nice-ai-upgrades/
https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2
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