Valuable News – 2024/03/04

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/BSD/Linux 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

NixBSD is Unofficial NixOS Fork with FreeBSD Kernel.
https://github.com/nixos-bsd/nixbsd

History of TTY.
https://computer.rip/2024-02-25-a-history-of-the-tty.html

FreeBSD Puts End to 32bit CPU Support.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98Y5D_Az2AY

FreeBSD 14.0 on Lenovo X1 Carbon GEN 6.
https://hkdb.medium.com/freebsd-14-lenovo-x1-carbon-5b2d54ddd1ac

FreeBSD 13.3-RC1 Now Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-snapshots/2024-February/000365.html

Illumos News 2024W08.
https://news.illumos.am/2024w08/

Lazy Reading for 2024/02/25.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2024/02/25/lazy-reading-for-2024-02-25/

Please Test: FreeBSD 13.3-RC1.
https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2024-02-26-Please-test-FreeBSD-13.3-RC1.html

OpenZFS 2.1.15 Released.
https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.1.15

FreeBSD 13.3-RC1 Improves WiFi Stability and Takes Care of Some Kernel Panics.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-13.3-RC1

KDE 6.0 Mega Release.
https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/

FreeBSD Journal – 2024/01-02 – 10 Years in Publication.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/the-january-february-2024-issue-of-the-freebsd-journal-is-here/

NetBSD 10.0 RC5 Available.
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_10_0_rc5_available

Make Your Own VPN on FreeBSD with Wireguard/IPv6 and Ad-Blocking Included.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/make-your-own-vpn-freebsd-wireguard-ipv6-and-ad-blocking-included/

Build Unison Package for Synology DSM.
https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/build-a-unison-package-for-synology-dsm/

Support for Old Atari Partition Scheme in NetBSD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve4_SOatDJ4

Some OpenBSD Features That Are Not Widely Known.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-02-20-rarely-known-openbsd-features.html

That Old NetBSD Server – Running Since 2010.
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2023/08/27/that-old-netbsd-server-running-since-2010/

NetBSD 10.0 Should Be Released Soon – Likely Last RC Debuts.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-10.0-RC5-Released

LibreOffice 24.2.1 Community Announced.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/02/29/libreoffice-24-2-1/

BSD Now 548 – NTP – In Memorium.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/548

LibreOffice 24.2 Release Notes.
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/24.2

GreptimeDB is Now Available on FreeBSD.
https://twitter.com/tison1096/status/1763593641157685276

How to Run Your Own Mail Server on FreeBSD.
https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/mail-server-guide

GhostBSD 24.01.1 Review.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQoYCp3Yak4

How to Install FreeBSD 14.0 + XFCE Desktop and Basic Applications.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_EXXW20EIY

Some Reflections on Writing Unix Daemons.
https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2024/some_reflections_on_writing_unix_daemons.html

Lazy Reading for 2024/03/03.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2024/03/03/lazy-reading-for-2024-03-03/

Hardware

WRC Abandons Hybrid Powered RALLY1 Cars from 2025.
https://www.autosport.com/wrc/news/wrc-to-abandon-hybrid-powered-rally1-cars-from-2025/10580820/

HDMI Forum Rejected AMD Open Source HDMI 2.1 Implementation.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/the-hdmi-forum-rejected-amds-open-source-hdmi-21-implementation/

HDMI Forum to AMD: No You Can Not Make Open Source HDMI 2.1 Driver.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hdmi-forum-to-amd-no-you-cant-make-an-open-source-hdmi-2-1-driver/

HP Wants You to Pay Up to $36/Month to Rent Printer That it Monitors.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hp-wants-you-to-pay-up-to-36-month-to-rent-a-printer-that-it-monitors/

FanlessTech NUC 14 Pro is Now Listed.
https://www.fanlesstech.com/2024/02/nuc-14-pro-is-now-listed.html

Life

Play Outside and Sing Together – Raising Viking Children in Denmark.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/feb/25/play-outside-and-sing-together-living-in-denmark-and-raising-viking-children

Why I Use Firefox.
https://šime.eu/3

Why Children Need Risk/Fear/Excitement in Play.
https://www.afterbabel.com/p/why-children-need-risk-fear-and-excitement

Other

Horn of the Abyss 1.7.0 Released – Heroes of Might and Magic ]I[ Addon.
https://heroes3wog.net/horn-of-the-abyss-factory-campaign-complete/

Cactus is Modern Diablo II Version Switcher/Character Isolator/Mod Manager.
https://github.com/fearedbliss/Cactus

JPEG XL and Pareto Front.
https://cloudinary.com/blog/jpeg-xl-and-the-pareto-front

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