Valuable News – 2023/01/09
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
Visual Guide to SSH Tunnels – Local and Remote Port Forwarding.
https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/ssh-tunnels/
NetBSD on Reproducible Builds Summit Venice 2022.
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/reproducible_builds_summit_venice_2022
DragonflyBSD 6.4 Released.
https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release64/
helloSystem – Open Source FreeBSD Based macOS Alternative.
https://www.makeuseof.com/hellosystem-freebsd-based-macos-alternative/
FreeBSD Foundation – Conference Report – Rocky Mountain Celebration of Women in Computing.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/conference-report-rocky-mountain-celebration-of-women-in-computing/
How to Test Modified FreeBSD Source Code?
https://programmatic.solutions/hmvnm0/how-to-test-modified-freebsd-source-code
DragonflyBSD 6.4 Released with Many Fixes.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/DragonFlyBSD-6.4-Released
Fireside Chat – FreeBSD Infrastructure War Stories.
https://klarasystems.com/webinars/webinar-freebsd-infrastructure-war-stories/
Installing Obsidian on FreeBSD.
https://jrgsystems.com/posts/2023-01-03-installing-obsidian-on-freebsd/
Under the Hood with FreeBSD and Ampere Altra.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/under-the-hood-with-freebsd-and-ampere-altra/
The curl(1) Project Status Dashboard.
https://curl.se/dashboard.html
Escaping from FreeBSD Bhyve.
https://www.synacktiv.com/publications/escaping-from-bhyve.html
New Year – New OS – Try FreeBSD in 2023.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pctBI6mlJnc
BSD Now 488 – Old ping(8) Bug.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/488?utm_source=discoverbsd
XKCD – BSD Dual Boot.
https://xkcd.com/349/
Analysis of Speedup Gain of Undefined Behavior Optimizations in OpenBSD.
https://tildegit.org/lucic71/dissertation/src/branch/master/TSW/tsw.pdf
I Feel for NetBSD Community.
https://rubenerd.com/i-feel-for-the-netbsd-community/
FreeBSD Journal – 2022/11-12 – Observability and Metrics.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/past-issues/observability-and-metrics/
https://freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/918ab1cb58d4efe919ab11c7648eb92e35c343ba.1.pdf
OpenZFS Lands Very Nice Performance Optimization.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-Uncached-Prefetch
Another Useless Change – X Servers No Longer Allow Byte Swapped Clients.
https://who-t.blogspot.com/2023/01/x-servers-no-longer-allow-byte-swapped.html?m=1
Future of ZFS on Ubuntu Desktop is Not Looking Good.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/ubuntu-zfs-support-status
Install FreeBSD 13.1 and KDE in QEMU.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2wq0eTnUuc
DragonflyBSD Adds Temperature Sensor Support for AMD ZEN3/ZEN4 PCUs.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/DragonFlyBSD-19h-AMD-Temp
The i3-gaps Project Has Finally Been Merged with i3.
https://github.com/Airblader/i3
The bsdfetch Simple Tool to Show Information About BSD Systems Hits 1.1.0 Release.
https://github.com/jhx0/bsdfetch
Force Reboot Frozen Linux or FreeBSD Machine.
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2023/01/08/how-to-force-reboot-a-frozen-linux-or-freebsd-servers/
Regain Space on FreeBSD by Removing Obsolete Packages/Ports.
https://www.ncartron.org/regain-space-on-freebsd-by-removing-obsolete-packagesports.html
KEA DHCP Server on FreeBSD 13.
https://byte-sized.de/linux-unix/kea-dhcp-server-unter-freebsd-13-konfigurieren/
Dotfiles Management.
https://mitxela.com/projects/dotfiles_management
X Window System Basics.
https://magcius.github.io/xplain/article/x-basics.html
Hardware
RISC versus CISC – Post RISC Era – Historical Approach to Debate.
https://arstechnica.com/features/1999/10/rvc/
AMD Ryzen Mobile 7000 CPUs.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/18718/amd-2023-ryzen-mobile-7000-cpus-unveiled-zen-4-phoenix-takes-point
AMD New ZEN4 65W CPUs: Ryzen 9 7900 – Ryzen 7 7700 – Ryzen 5 7600.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/18715/amd-announces-ryzen-9-7900-ryzen-7-7000-and-ryzen-5-7600-processors-zen-4-at-65-w
Hackers versus Auto Industry – Critical Vulnerabilities in Most Brands.
https://samcurry.net/web-hackers-vs-the-auto-industry/
Study Finds That Buttons in Cars are Safer and Quicker to Use Than Touchscreens.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-finds-that-buttons-in-cars-are-safer-and-quicker-to-use-than-touchscreens
ASUS RS720A-E12-RS24U Review AMD EPYC Genoa 2P with 9x PCIe Gen5 Slots.
https://www.servethehome.com/asus-rs720a-e12-rs24u-review-amd-epyc-genoa-2p-with-9x-pcie-gen5-slots/
Life
Switzerland to Provide Patients with Safe Blood Transfusions from Unvaccinated Purebloods.
https://newspunch.com/switzerland-to-provide-patients-with-safe-blood-transfusions-from-unvaccinated-purebloods/
https://safeblood.ch/en/
Science of Why You Have Great Ideas in Shower.
https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2022/08/the-science-of-why-you-have-great-ideas-in-the-shower
Other
Revolution in BAR (Free RTS) Graphics – Remastered Textures/Effects/Lighting.
https://www.beyondallreason.info/news
Releasing Soapbox 3.0 – UI for Mastodon/Fediverse.
https://soapbox.pub/blog/releasing-soapbox-3.0/
Free Your Vacuum from Cloud with Valetudo.
https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo
Physics of Racing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYp2vvUgEqE
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