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
Solve Failed fw_update(8) in OpenBSD.
https://nmingotti.medium.com/solve-a-failed-fw-update-in-openbsd-814c9a0f6699
Jails vs Docker – Performance Comparison of Different Container Technologies.
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1453017/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Compiling Sensor Watch Firmware on FreeBSD.
https://www.ncartron.org/compiling-a-sensor-watch-firmware-on-freebsd.html
FreeBSD: Installing and Using Haskell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4o-d0XOeq0
Podman Installation on FreeBSD 14.0.
https://podman.io/docs/installation#installing-on-freebsd-140
EuroBSDCon 2024.
https://2024.eurobsdcon.org/
NetBSD 10 Proves Old Tech Can Still Kick Apps and Take Names 3 Decades Later.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/17/30yo_netbsd_releases_v10/
OpenBSD 7.5 Locks Down with Improved Disk Encryption Support and Syscall Limitations.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/12/openbsd_75_disk_encryption/
GCC 14 Drops IA64 Support – Final Nail in Coffin for Itanium Architecture.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/12/gcc_14_sinks_itanic/?td=keepreading
10 Years of Improvements in PostgreSQL Optimizer.
https://rmarcus.info/blog/2024/04/12/pg-over-time.html
FreeBSD for Devs #01 – Robust Platform for Developers.
https://dev.to/scovl/freebsd-for-devs-3n0k
FreeBSD for Devs #02.
https://dev.to/scovl/freebsd-for-devs-02-44mk
FreeBSD for Devs #03.
https://dev.to/scovl/freebsd-for-devs-03-4dhd
FreeBSD for Devs #04.
https://dev.to/scovl/freebsd-for-devs-04-5c1m
Kubernetes on FreeBSD with Linux Worker Nodes and Cilium.
https://medium.com/@norlin.t/kubernetes-on-freebsd-with-linux-worker-nodes-and-cilium-a87c50daef03
Why We Run FreeBSD CURRENT at Netflix – Drew Gallatin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4TZxj-Dq7s
How to Upstream Code to Open Source Projects.
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3715381/how-to-upstream-code-to-open-source-projects.html
FreeBSD Foundation Delivers V1 of FreeBSD SSDF Attestation to Support Cybersecurity Compliance.
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/04/18/2865670/0/en/FreeBSD-Foundation-Delivers-V1-of-FreeBSD-SSDF-Attestation-to-Support-Cybersecurity-Compliance.html
FreeBSD 14.1-PRERELEASE Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/dev-commits-src-all/2024-April/040012.html
What is FreeBSD Missing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISJrVuajlAw
FreeBSD: Using DTrace to Track Down Started Processes and Used Files.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz6zVXw-NcE
Use cache2repo Script to Create ISO Image of Your Current FreeBSD pkg(8) Cache.
https://github.com/tjemg/cache2repo
Linux 6.10 Prepares Kernel Panic Screen – Like Blue Screen of Death.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-DRM-Panic-Handler
How to Convert Local FreeBSD pkg(8) Cache into pkg(8) Mirror.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9o9GVgpCF0
FreeBSD: Installing and Using Haskell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4o-d0XOeq0
Weekly BSD Pub Meeting – Thursdays 5:00 PM UTC/Zulu Time.
https://wiki.bsd.cafe/docs:weekly-bsdpub
BSD Now 555 – Poudriereing Apple Silicon.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/555
Uwubernetes – Kubernetes 1.30 for Illumos/OpenBSD/FreeBSD.
https://kubernaut.eu/posts/uwubernetes-kubernetes-v1-30-for-illumos-openbsd-freebsd/
WireGuard VNET Jail.
https://eldapper.wordpress.com/2024/04/13/wireguard-vnet-jail/
Launch FreeBSD 14 VPS Server.
https://blog.radwebhosting.com/launch-a-freebsd-14-vps-server/
TrueNAS CORE versus TrueNAS SCALE.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/04/20/truenas-core-versus-truenas-scale/
How to Migrate from TrueNAS CORE to TrueNAS SCALE on TrueNAS Mini.
https://www.truenas.com/blog/how-to-migrate-from-core-to-scale-on-the-truenas-mini/
GhostBSD 2024/01 Finance Report.
https://www.ghostbsd.org/news/january_2024_finance_report
KISS Server Monitoring with Gogios.
https://foo.zone/gemfeed/2023-06-01-kiss-server-monitoring-with-gogios.html
Lazy Reading for 2024/04/21.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2024/04/21/lazy-reading-for-2024-04-21/
Why You Should Not Run BSD on PC.
https://michal.sapka.me/bsd/why-not-bsd/
Get Current Working Directory of Process in FreeBSD in C Using libprocstat(3).
https://gist.github.com/antranigv/fcd2f2c3faa0b986e4d2b781793f6ed1
Double Edged Sword of Docker: Balancing Benefits and Risks.
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/04/22/the-doubled-edge-sword-of-docker/
Ansible – AWX (1/2).
https://blog.while-true-do.io/ansible-awx-1/
Ansible – AWX (2/2).
https://blog.while-true-do.io/ansible-awx-2/
GNOME on FreeBSD After One Year of Learning.
https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/1ca1nil/gnome_freebsd_after_one_year_learning/
Hardware
New ODROID H4 is Here.
https://www.fanlesstech.com/2024/04/the-new-odroid-is-here.html
AMD Announces Ryzen Pro 8000/8040 Series CPUs – Commercial Desktop Gets AI.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/21358/amd-announces-ryzen-pro-8000-and-ryzen-pro-8040-series-commercial-desktop-gets-ai
AMD Strix Halo ZEN5 and RDNA3.5 Premium APU Rumors Take Shape.
https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-strix-halo-zen5-rdna3-5-premium-apu-rumors-take-shape
The World Smallest NAS.
https://www.fanlesstech.com/2024/04/the-worlds-smallest-nas.html
Wireless AMIGA Tank Mouse.
https://tank-mouse.com/
Other
New GCompris 4.0 Release.
https://gcompris.net/news/2024-02-21-en.html
German State Ditches Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/04/germanys_northernmost_state_ditches_windows/
Dune: Part Two (2024) Review.
https://michal.sapka.me/brain-rot/dune/part-two-2024/
Enjoy Beautiful Colors of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) with This 35mm Scan.
https://80.lv/articles/enjoy-beautiful-colors-of-terminator-2-judgment-day-with-this-35mm-scan/
Email DNS Records Cheat Sheet.
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/email-dns-records.html
Better than Zoom – Try These Free Software Tools for Staying in Touch.
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/better-than-zoom-try-these-free-software-tools-for-staying-in-touch
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Re: why not BSD, I was unpleasantly surprised earlier this month to find out that FreeBSD 14 lacks support for a Broadcom wi-fi adapter that two out of three Linux distributions I tried on the same machine can use out of the box. And it’s not a new machine!
But mostly, I think the BSDs are held back on the desktop by their almost exclusive focus on esoteric optimizations for servers. Look at any BSD release; that’s going to be 80% or more of the announced improvements: even more ways to fiddle with the kernel and filesystems. Which is great if you’re a sysadmin looking to eke out the last ounce of performance out of your hardware.
But what if I’m a programmer looking to code (in text mode, without X11!) on a BSD as a primary use case? What’s in it for me?
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I have read it – its exaggerate for my standards.
I use FreeBSD on laptops/desktop since 2005 and it mostly works.
Do some things do not work? Sure. Do all things work on Linux? Nope. Do all things work on Windows? Nope. Not to mention how many times Linux or Windows break to the point of reinstall.
From all the OSes I know – and they are few – FreeBSD sucks the least – just pick the right hardware.
… and we have programmers covered:
– https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/03/13/perfect-neovim-ansible-setup/
Regards.
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