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
NetApp Strategic Contributions to FreeBSD – Deep Dive into Upstreaming Efforts.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/netapps-strategic-contributions-to-freebsd-a-deep-dive-into-upstreaming-efforts/
pfSense Software Embraces Change – Strategic Migration to Linux Kernel. [APRIL FOOLS JOKE]
https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-software-embraces-change-a-strategic-migration-to-the-linux-kernel
History of ps(1) Command.
https://medium.com/@mttpgn/the-history-of-the-ps-command-5ec0066b17d6
Using USB Headphones with virtual_oss(8) on FreeBSD.
https://badland.io/freebsd-usb-headphones.md
GCC 10 Ported to QNX 6.5.
https://www.osnews.com/story/139111/gcc-10-ported-to-qnx-6-5-sp1/
NetBSD 10.0 Released with Much Improved Hardware Support and Faster Performance.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-10.0-Released
OmniOS is Not Affected by CVE-2024-3094 About xz-utils Case.
https://omnios.org/article/xz-utils-CVE-2024-3094.html?
BSD Now 552 – Laptop Sparc.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/552
Ford Aerospace Was One of First Commercial Sites of BSD Unix.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39636035
AMD Longtime Open Source Linux Graphics Driver Advocate Retires.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Bridgman-Retires
GhostBSD – Look at Latest 2024 Release.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3ufu-_MIFc
FreeBSD Foundation and Digital Security by Design Announce Beacon Award Winners for Innovations and Improvements to CheriBSD.
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/04/03/2856691/0/en/FreeBSD-Foundation-and-Digital-Security-by-Design-DSbD-Announce-Beacon-Award-Winners-for-Innovations-and-Improvements-to-CheriBSD.html
SmolBSD: Make Your Own NetBSD UNIX MicroVM.
https://smolbsd.org/
AMD Says They Will Be Open Sourcing More GPU Software Stack and Hardware Docs.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-More-OSS-Hardware-Docs
German State Moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/04/04/german-state-moving-30000-pcs-to-libreoffice/
OpenBSD 7.5 Released.
https://openbsd.org/75.html
MATE Desktop Updated to 1.28.1 in FreeBSD Ports.
https://freshports.org/x11/mate/
The pkgsrc-2024Q1 Branch Released.
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2024/04/04/msg000370.html
OpenBSD 7.5 Released – Faster SMP Performance for ARM Servers.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenBSD-7.5-Released
Timeline of xz(1) Open Source Attack.
https://research.swtch.com/xz-timeline
Install 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
WINE 9.6 Adds Support for AVX Features in Register Contexts.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-9.6-Released
BSD Now 553 – Terminal Latency.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/553
FreeBSD Foundation Education and Advocacy.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/education-advocacy/
FreeBSD Zero to Desktop Speedrun Challenge.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/04/05/freebsd-zero-to-desktop-speedrun-challenge/
AlmaLinux Patches Security Hole That Remains Unpatched in Upstream RHEL.
https://fossforce.com/2024/04/in-a-first-almalinux-patches-a-security-hole-that-remains-unpatched-in-upstream-rhel/
ZFS Datastore for MariaDB.
https://github.com/letsencrypt/openzfs-nvme-databases
Install .NET On FreeBSD in 2024.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty4Jd1W31iM
3 Ways to Run .NET in FreeBSD in 2024.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehqNdYLnsPc
Measuring Terminal Latency with Typometer.
https://beuke.org/terminal-latency/
Improvements to Static Analysis in GCC 14 Compiler.
https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/04/03/improvements-static-analysis-gcc-14-compiler#
Lazy Reading for 2024/04/07.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2024/04/07/lazy-reading-for-2024-03-31/
BoxyBSD is Non Profit VM and Service Provider for FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD Systems.
https://boxybsd.com/
Lost Worlds of Telnet.
https://thenewstack.io/the-lost-worlds-of-telnet/
The pkgsrc on macOS Still Works.
https://schmonz.com/2024/04/02/pkgsrc-on-macos-still-works/
News for rsync(1) 3.3.0 (2024/04/06).
https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.3.0
Is Sony Abusing FreeBSD with PlayStation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwHKbQFf_uQ
Hardware
SPARCbook 3000ST – Coolest 90s Laptop.
https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/sparcbook3000st-the-coolest-90s-laptop/
Fanless SBC and Mini PC with N3050/N3160/N3700 SoC.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/04/03/cwwk-x86-p1-cheap-fanless-sbc-mini-pc-intel-n3050-n3160-or-n3700-braswell-soc/
Crucial T705 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD on Linux.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/crucial-t705-linux
AMD Unveils Embedded+ Architecture – Ryzen Embedded with Versal Together.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/21254/amd-unveils-their-embedded-architecture-ryzen-embedded-with-versal-together
PCIe 7.0 Draft 0.5 Spec Available 512 GB/s over PCIe x16 on Track for 2025.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/21335/full-draft-of-pcie-70-spec-available-512-gbs-over-pcie-x16-incoming
Visualizing ARM64 Instruction Set.
https://zyedidia.github.io/blog/posts/6-arm64/
Life
Nuclear Plant Closure Was Hailed as Green Win. Then Emissions Went Up.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/20/nuclear-plant-closure-carbon-emissions-new-york
The Most Beautiful Word in the World is ‘No’.
https://chocolateandvodka.com/2024/04/03/the-most-beautiful-word-in-the-world-is-no/
Other
Thunderbird for Android – Should You Upgrade From K-9 Mail.
https://tilvids.com/w/wGoySntAhuVxpnniETxaJG
Using Ansible to Read Passwords from Vaultwarden.
https://mteixeira.wordpress.com/2024/04/04/ansible-vaultwarden/
New Windows Driver Blocks Software from Changing Default Web Browser.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/new-windows-driver-blocks-software-from-changing-default-web-browser/
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