Valuable News – 2024/03/11

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

FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE Now Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2024-March/000125.html

FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE Release Notes.
https://freebsd.org/releases/13.3R/relnotes/

What is New in Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 66.
https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/whats-new-in-oracle-solaris-114-sru-66

FreeBSD 13.3 Released with Better WiFi Support and LLVM objdump(1) Added.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-13.3-Released

Installing syslog-ng 4 Development Snapshot on FreeBSD.
https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/installing-a-syslog-ng-4-development-snapshot-on-freebsd

FreeBSD Foundation – What Makes FreeBSD Governance Model Successful.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/what-makes-the-freebsd-governance-model-successful/

FreeBSD Foundation – FreeBSD 13.3 – What is New and How Did We Get Here.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-13-3-whats-new-and-how-did-we-get-here/

Nginx Web Server with PHP on FreeBSD.
https://bsdbox.de/en/artikel/nginx-php

PostgreSQL Database Server on FreeBSD.
https://bsdbox.de/en/artikel/pgsql

PostgreSQL as Cache Service.
https://martinheinz.dev/blog/105

OSNews – FreeBSD 13.3 Released.
https://www.osnews.com/story/138727/freebsd-13-3-released/

FreeBSD pkg(8) Adds Some ECC Support (ECDSA/EdDSA) with libecc Library.
https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/pull/2255

Compiling Reth on FreeBSD.
https://blog.leiy.me/post/compiling-reth-on-freebsd/

FreeBSD Time Machine Backup Server with Netatalk.
https://www.davd.io/posts-freebsd-time-machine-backup-server-with-netatalk/

FreeBSD System Programming Book. [2004]
https://www.khmere.com/freebsd_book/index.html

IPXE Booting in OmniosCE.
https://neirac.srht.site/posts/ipxe_boot.html

Ruby is Better than Python for Unix System Administration.
https://nmingotti.medium.com/ruby-is-better-than-python-for-unix-like-system-administration-e520ef41e66d

FreeBSD Has Another New C Compiler – Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++.
https://briancallahan.net/blog/20240306.html

NetBSD for Advanced Minimalist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-75TQMbar1Y

FreeBSD Jails Fixed Address.
https://neirac.srht.site/posts/FreeBSD-jail-fixed-address.html

FreeBSD Jails for Home Data Center.
https://neirac.srht.site/posts/FreeBSD-HDC.html

FreeBSD Project Participating in Google Summer of Code 2024.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/the-freebsd-project-participating-in-google-summer-of-code-2024/

OSNews – Peculiarity of X Window System – Windows All Way Down.
https://www.osnews.com/story/138753/a-peculiarity-of-the-x-window-system-windows-all-the-way-down/

Installing FreeBSD 14.0 on 2013 Mac Pro.
https://eldapper.wordpress.com/2024/03/07/installing-freebsd-14-0-on-a-2013-mac-pro/

Peculiarity of X Window System – Windows All Way Down.
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/XWindowsAllTheWayDown

Mesa CPU Based Vulkan Driver Now Supports Ray Tracing.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Lavapipe-Vulkan-RayTracing

GTK Development Blog – Fractional Scales/Fonts/Hinting.
https://blog.gtk.org/2024/03/07/on-fractional-scales-fonts-and-hinting/

Guiding Future of FreeBSD Releases with Colin Percival – New Release Engineering Team Lead.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/guiding-the-future-of-freebsd-releases-colin-percival-the-new-release-engineering-team-lead/

History of BSD – Part I – Multics.
https://michal.sapka.me/bsd/history/01_multics/

VirtualBox KVM Backend Adds Support for SR-IOV Graphics.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/VirtualBox-KVM-SR-IOV-Support

Graphics Virtualization Support in KVM Backend for VirtualBox.
https://cyberus-technology.de/articles/vbox-kvm-sriov

Make Your Own Email Server – FreeBSD/OpenSMTPD/Rspamd/Dovecot – Part 1.
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/03/08/make-your-own-email-server-freebsd-opensmptd-rspamd-dovecot-part1/

Watching Netflix (DRM Content) in Two Easy Steps on FreeBSD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyUqMKorqhg

MATE Desktop 1.28 Available but Still w/o Official Announcement.
https://twitter.com/LinuxUserSpace/status/1765515229595578643

Connect FreeBSD 14.0-STABLE to FreeIPA/IDM.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/03/06/connect-freebsd-14-0-stable-to-freeipa-idm/

Keycloak Identity and Access Management on FreeBSD.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/03/10/keycloak-on-freebsd/

Lazy Reading for 2024/03/10.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2024/03/10/lazy-reading-for-2024-03-10/

Hardware

Building Efficient Server Grade ARM NAS.
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/building-efficient-server-grade-arm-nas

Learning About ZFS and Efficiency on My New ARM64 NAS.
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/learning-about-zfs-and-efficiency-on-my-new-arm64-nas

Nouveau HDMI 2.1 Support Thanks to NVIDIA Firmware.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Firmware-Blobs-HDMI-2.1

Open Source Project ZLUDA Lets CUDA Apps Run on AMD GPUs.
https://www.cgchannel.com/2024/02/open-source-project-zluda-lets-cuda-apps-run-on-amd-gpus/

A500 Mini AMIGA Clone for $89.99 on Amazon.
http://amzn.to/3WbFzRB

Euro NCAP Points Will Be Deducted if Some Controls Are Not Physical.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/03/carmakers-must-bring-back-buttons-to-get-good-safety-scores-in-europe/

SanDisk Professional PRO-BLADE Portable SSD Ecosystem Review.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/21286/sandisk-professional-problade-portable-ssd-ecosystem-review/

Testing Sony A7III for ISO Invariance.
https://alynwallacephotography.com/blog/2018/5/6/testing-the-sony-a73-for-iso-invariance

Life

Patrick Bet David – Why Does No One Trust Media Anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMPLCie1G_I

Dumber Side of Smart People.
https://collabfund.com/blog/the-dumber-side-of-smart-people/

File Not Found – Generation that Grew Up with Google is Forcing Professors to Rethink Their Lesson Plans.
https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z

How Micronutrients and Exercise Ameliorate Aging.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGNLrWxsTiw

Other

Humble Tech Book Bundle – Learn You Some Code.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/learn-you-some-code-no-starch-books

Writing PostgreSQL Logical Replication System in Golang.
https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2024-03-08-postgres-logical-replication/

Reddit Will License Its Data to Train Google LLMs – Firefox Extension Lets You Replace Your Comments with Any Text.
https://theluddite.org/#!post/reddit-extension

VMware Sandbox Escape Bugs Critical – Patches Even for EoL Products.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/vmware-issues-patches-for-critical-sandbox-escape-vulnerabilities/

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