Valuable News – 2024/04/01

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

Why do Regexes Use '$' and '^' as Line Anchors.
https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/why-do-regexes-use-and-as-line-anchors/

On Starting 2024 FreeBSD Foundation Budget Journey.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/on-starting-the-2024-freebsd-foundation-budget-journey/

FreeBSD Foundation Gives Beacon Gongs for Safer Software.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/beacon_awards_freebsd/

LibreNMS Agent Now Allows Poudriere Monitoring.
https://github.com/librenms/librenms-agent/pull/512/commits/6562441fbe205a0c11943fa903137f46ab9ab469

FreeBSD Foundation – Powering Up Future – New FreeBSD Cluster in Chicago.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/powering-up-the-future-the-new-freebsd-cluster-in-chicago/

How to Run FreeBSD in UTM/QEMU on Apple M3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrDxZkFHYE8

FreeBSD Foundation – 2024 Budget – Approved.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Budget2024-Approved-Public.pdf

Vultr Just Betrayed Us.
https://mwl.io/archives/23498

Top 12 Server Operating Systems in 2024 – Which is Best for You.
https://hostingjournalist.com/2024s-top-12-server-operating-systems-which-is-best-for-you/

NetBSD 10 RC1-6 Beta and Pi WiFi and A/V.
http://jspath55.blogspot.com/2024/03/netbsd-10-beta-rc1-6-and-pi-wifi-and-av.html

Finding NetBSD Kernel Bugs Through LockDoc.
https://scholz.ruhr/blog/finding-netbsd-locking-bugs/

Samba 4.20 Released with WSP Search Client and Service Witness Protocol.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Samba-4.20-Released

Redis Goes from Open Source to Fauxpen and Forks Have Already Started.
https://fossforce.com/2024/03/redis-goes-from-open-source-to-fauxpen-and-the-forks-have-already-started/

OCI Working Group – OCI Runtime on FreeBSD Platform.
https://github.com/opencontainers/wg-freebsd-runtime/tree/main

Free and Open Source Software and Other Market Failures.
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3649298

Valkey is New Baby that Used to Be FreeBSD Redis.
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launches-open-source-valkey-community

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/

Decade Old Linux wall(1) Bug Helps Make Fake sudo(8) Prompts and Steal Passwords.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/decade-old-linux-wall-bug-helps-make-fake-sudo-prompts-steal-passwords/

Used ThinkPad is Better Deal than New Cheap Laptop.
https://www.osnews.com/story/138939/a-used-thinkpad-is-a-better-deal-than-a-new-cheap-laptop/

Disclosed Backdoor in xz(1) Releases – FreeBSD Not Affected.
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-security/2024-March/000248.html

XZ Utils Backdoor.
https://tukaani.org/xz-backdoor/

NetBSD 10.0 Announced.
https://netbsd.org/releases/formal-10/NetBSD-10.0.html

Highlight and Colorize Log Files with Tailspin.
https://itsfoss.com/tailspin/

Rust Written Redox OS Enjoys Significant Performance Improvements.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-Performance-March-2024

NetBSD 10.0 Available.
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_10_0_available

Announcing NetBSD 10.0.
https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-10/NetBSD-10.0.html

Exploring CBSD Management Framework – Part 6 – Jails (IV).
https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2024/02/29/exploring-the-cbsd-virtual-environment-management-framework-part-6-jails-iv/

Exploring CBSD Management Framework – Part 7 – Updating and Help.
https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2024/03/30/exploring-the-cbsd-virtual-environment-management-framework-part-7-updating-and-help/

Hardware

Porsche Boxster/Cayman are Done in Europe.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/porsche-stops-selling-718-boxster-cayman-europe-cybersecurity-law

ASRock Rack SIENAD8-2L2T AMD EPYC 8004 Siena Motherboard Review.
https://www.servethehome.com/asrock-rack-sienad8-2l2t-amd-epyc-8004-siena-motherboard-review/

Homebrew GPU Tackles Quake.
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/28/homebrew-gpu-tackles-quake/

Other

Greatest Private Race Track in the World.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ5_drme2gE

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