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).
Past releases are available at the dedicated NEWS page.
UNIX
OpenBSD Plans to Disable Soft updates (softdep) for Future VFS Work.
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230706044554
IMDB for Terminal.
https://github.com/isene/IMDB
Goodbye Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
https://blog.aurel32.net/goodbye-kfreebsd.html
When Open Becomes Opaque – Changing Face of Open Source Hardware Companies.
https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/07/12/when-open-becomes-opaque-the-changing-face-of-open-source-hardware-companies/
How I Run My Servers.
https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/how-i-run-my-servers
FreeBSD – Install LXQt as Desktop Environment.
https://byte-sized.de/linux-unix/freebsd-lxqt-als-gui-installieren/#english
Wim is Vim Configured as Full Featured IDE.
https://github.com/wolandark/wim
Vim Key Combinations.
https://keycombiner.com/collections/vim/
Harden FreeBSD.
https://github.com/wravoc/harden-freebsd
Adding Variable Tiling Width Ratio and Gaps to XFCE xfwm4 Window Manager.
https://www.tumfatig.net/2023/adding-variable-tiling-width-ratio-and-gaps-to-xfce-xfwm4/
Suyimazu is Wine Based Application Launcher for FreeBSD.
https://codeberg.org/Alexander88207/Suyimazu
FreeBSD is Proud to Be Media Partner for All Things Open 2023.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/event-calendar/all-things-open-2023/
Nvidia Released FreeBSD Display Driver 535.86.05.
https://twitter.com/fosdembsd/status/1681574924282998784
Slackware Was Not 1st Linux Distro But Its Oldest Still Alive and Kicking.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/20/slackware_turns_30/
5 Reasons We Use Open Source FreeBSD as Our Enterprise OS.
https://hackernoon.com/5-reasons-we-use-open-source-freebsd-as-our-enterprise-os
In Memoriam – Hans Petter William Sirevag Selasky – FreeBSD Lost One of Its Most Prolific Contributors.
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2023-July/000076.html
New Mastodon Instance Focused on BSD Systems – BSD.cafe – is Now Available.
https://twitter.com/stefanomarinell/status/1682102406635462656
Updating FreeBSD on armv6 Board (RPI-B).
https://smallhacks.wordpress.com/2023/07/20/updating-freebsd-on-armv6-board-rpi-b/
FreeBSD is 30 Years Old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa7rDLiNjao
Wine Development Release 8.13 Available.
https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.13
OpenBSD Adds Ladybird WWW Browser from SerenityOS to Ports.
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=168981753923833&w=2
AMD Expands Mesa virgl Video Acceleration for XEN.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Virgl-More-Video-Accel
FreeBSD as Tier I cloud-init(1) Platform.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/project/freebsd-as-a-tier-i-cloud-init-platform/
Announcing Stalwart Mail Server – Unified/Efficient/More Powerful than Ever.
https://stalw.art/blog/announcing-mail-server/
Meet bfs(1) 3.0 – Fastest find(1) Yet.
https://tavianator.com/2023/bfs_3.0.html
Hardware
The Perfect Laptop.
https://blog.brossia.com/posts/the_perfect_laptop/
CRT Style Pi Portable Terminal.
https://hackaday.io/project/189558-crt-style-pi-portable-pi-terminal
Thinkpad 701C Butterfly with Framework Brain Transplant and iPad Screen.
https://community.frame.work/t/thinkpad-701c-with-a-framework-brain-transplant-work-in-progress/27409
Khadas Mind Raptor Lake Portable Mini PC with Desktop Dock/Laptop Dock/External GPU Dock.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/07/22/khadas-mind-raptor-lake-portable-mini-pc-supports-desktop-dock-laptop-dock-and-external-gpu-dock/
Industrial Mini ITX Motherboard with Intel N50 CPU.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/07/20/industrial-mini-itx-motherboard-features-intel-processor-n50-dual-core-alder-lake-n-processor/
Aetina Fanless NVIDIA Jetson Orin Embedded Box Mini PCs.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/07/19/aetina-fanless-nvidia-jetson-orin-embedded-box-pcs-ubuntu-20-04/
Life
The Age of Average.
https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average
Kevin David Mitnick is Dead.
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/las-vegas-nv/kevin-mitnick-11371668
Other
Im Going to Need a Gun – Closer Look At TTI Pit Viper from John Wick 4 Movie.
https://theloadoutblog.com/2022/11/16/tti-pit-viper/
Discord is Not Documentation.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/07/discord-is-not-documentation/
Hacker News: What is Most Memorable Game You Played?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36818225
Movie Escape From New York at 40 – How Those Glider Graphics Were Made.
https://beforesandafters.com/2021/07/12/escape-from-new-york-at-40-how-those-cg-glider-graphics-were-actually-achieved-with-physical-models/
Back to Firefox Again!
https://neilzone.co.uk/2023/03/back-to-firefox-again
Session Release Roundup 17 – Long Awaited Syncing Update.
https://getsession.org/blog/session-release-roundup-17
Google Trying to Force DRM for Websites.
https://social.treehouse.systems/@rcombs/110739963243629400
https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md
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I’ve read The Age of Average a while ago, and yeah. It’s dystopian.
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