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 or BSD 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).
UNIX
FreeBSD on HiFive Unleashed.
View: https://youtu.be/1rMNrfDu-uA
OmniOS Community Edition r151028v/r151026av/r151022ct Available.
https://omniosce.org/article/028v-026av-022ct
Valgrind Ported to NetBSD/amd64.
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-toolchain/2019/04/01/msg003429.html
FreeBSD Foundation – FOSDEM 2019 Conference Recap.
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/fosdem-2019-conference-recap/
Hikari – Window Manager for FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
https://chaos.social/@raichoo/101858280176156092
https://hub.darcs.net/raichoo/hikari
The ezjail FreeBSD Jails framework ported to HardenedBSD.
Focus is on automating TOR Jail deployment using gibson.
https://github.com/emeraldonion/ezjail-hbsd
Configuring Default Resolution for FreeBSD 11 with UEFI.
http://www.codenicer.com/content/configuring-default-resolution-freebsd-11-uefi
FreeBSD HEAD became possible to build on EC2 ARM64 AMIs.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-cloud/2019-April/000215.html
Slides from 2019 BHYVECON are now available at bhyvecon.org page.
http://bhyvecon.org
How to Get Started with FreeBSD.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-get-started-with-freebsd
BSD Now 292 – AsiaBSDcon 2019 Recap.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/292
GhostBSD – Solid Linux Like Open Source Alternative.
https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/GhostBSD-A-Solid-Linux-Like-Open-Source-Alternative-85859.html
FUDO Security implements automatic online expansion of GELI providers on FreeBSD.
View: https://twitter.com/FreeBSDHelp/status/1113793688910458883
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=345862
About ZFS recordsize Parameter.
https://jrs-s.net/2019/04/03/on-zfs-recordsize/
Silent Fanless FreeBSD Server – Redundant Backup.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2019/04/03/silent-fanless-freebsd-server-redundant-backup/
PostgreSQL Performance on Raspberry Pi.
https://blog.rustprooflabs.com/2019/04/postgrseql-pgbench-raspberry-pi
OPNsense 19.1.5 Released.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=12320.0
Blocking Ads Using unbound(8) on OpenBSD.
https://www.tumfatig.net/20190405/blocking-ads-using-unbound8-on-openbsd/
Building FFmpeg on Solaris 11.4 Using solaris-userland.
https://notallmicrosoft.blogspot.com/2019/04/building-ffmpeg-on-solaris-114-using.html
NetBSD Desktop Part 7 – Simple Performance Tweaks.
https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/43-netbsd-desktop-pt-7-simple-performance-tweaks
Installing Ghost on FreeBSD 11.1.
https://idontwatch.tv/installing-ghost-on-freebsd-11-1/
In Other BSDs for 2019/04/06.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/04/06/22736.html
Major Linux Problems on the Desktop – 2019 Edition.
https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.current.html
TMUX Plugin tmux-battery adds support for OpenBSD apm.
https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-battery/pull/77
Scripting FreeBSD Updates.
https://www.anserinae.net/scripting-freebsd-updates.html
Vagrant adds proper VirtualBox share folders support for FreeBSD guests.
https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/pull/10717
entr(1) – run arbitrary commands when files change.
http://eradman.com/entrproject/
Hardware
Story of the 3Dfx Voodoo 1.
http://fabiensanglard.net/3dfx_sst1/index.html
TSMC and OIP Ecosystem Partners Deliver Industry First Complete Design Infrastructure for 5nm Process Technology.
https://www.tsmc.com/tsmcdotcom/PRListingNewsAction.do?action=detail&newsid=THPGWQTHTH&language=E
Why AMD EPYC Rome 2P Will Have 128-160 PCIe Gen4 Lanes and a Bonus.
https://www.servethehome.com/why-amd-epyc-rome-2p-will-have-128-160-pcie-gen4-lanes-and-a-bonus/
How SolidRun aims to bridge ARM developer gap with 16-core workstation board.
https://www.techrepublic.com/articl...veloper-gap-with-a-16-core-workstation-board/
Intel Xeon Platinum 9200 Formerly Cascade Lake-AP Launched.
Including 56-core 112-thread dual-die 400W Beast.
https://www.servethehome.com/intel-xeon-platinum-9200-formerly-cascade-lake-ap-launched/
Hard Drive Temperature – Does It Matter?
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-temperature-does-it-matter/
Why 2019 Foreshadows Per Socket Licenseageddon.
https://www.servethehome.com/2019-foreshadows-per-socket-licenseageddon/
Life
Ctrl-Alt-Delete: Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders.
https://onezero.medium.com/ctrl-alt-delete-the-planned-obsolescence-of-old-coders-9c5f440ee68
Privacy is Just the First Step – the Goal is Data Ownership.
https://thetoolsweneed.com/privacy-is-just-the-first-step-the-goal-is-data-ownership/
Picture shows anti ageing drugs really DO work.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/...ture-shows-anti-ageing-drugs-really-work.html
Second Order Thinking – What Smart People Use to Outperform.
https://fs.blog/2016/04/second-order-thinking/
Other
Introducing Warp – 1.1.1.1 – Fixing Mobile Internet Performance and Security – Better VPN.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/
I tried creating web browser and Google blocked me.
https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/google-widevine-blocked-my-browser/
Facebook secretly lobbied in favor of Article 13 of undesired EU copyright directive.
http://hacknews.eu/2019/04/02/faceb...ticle-13-of-undesired-eu-copyright-directive/
Serenity: New (x86) UNIX-like Operating System.
https://www.osnews.com/story/129716/serenity-a-new-unix-like-operating-system/
https://github.com/awesomekling/serenity
View: https://youtu.be/hE52D-zbX3g
Microsoft announces it will shut down ebook program and confiscate its customers libraries.
https://boingboing.net/2019/04/02/burning-libraries.html
Real Open Source – User Mindset.
https://medium.com/@MartinCracauer/real-open-source-the-user-mindset-6c1c7bf4695b
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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).
UNIX
FreeBSD on HiFive Unleashed.
OmniOS Community Edition r151028v/r151026av/r151022ct Available.
https://omniosce.org/article/028v-026av-022ct
Valgrind Ported to NetBSD/amd64.
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-toolchain/2019/04/01/msg003429.html
FreeBSD Foundation – FOSDEM 2019 Conference Recap.
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/fosdem-2019-conference-recap/
Hikari – Window Manager for FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
https://chaos.social/@raichoo/101858280176156092
https://hub.darcs.net/raichoo/hikari
The ezjail FreeBSD Jails framework ported to HardenedBSD.
Focus is on automating TOR Jail deployment using gibson.
https://github.com/emeraldonion/ezjail-hbsd
Configuring Default Resolution for FreeBSD 11 with UEFI.
http://www.codenicer.com/content/configuring-default-resolution-freebsd-11-uefi
FreeBSD HEAD became possible to build on EC2 ARM64 AMIs.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-cloud/2019-April/000215.html
Slides from 2019 BHYVECON are now available at bhyvecon.org page.
http://bhyvecon.org
How to Get Started with FreeBSD.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-get-started-with-freebsd
BSD Now 292 – AsiaBSDcon 2019 Recap.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/292
GhostBSD – Solid Linux Like Open Source Alternative.
https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/GhostBSD-A-Solid-Linux-Like-Open-Source-Alternative-85859.html
FUDO Security implements automatic online expansion of GELI providers on FreeBSD.
View: https://twitter.com/FreeBSDHelp/status/1113793688910458883
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=345862
About ZFS recordsize Parameter.
https://jrs-s.net/2019/04/03/on-zfs-recordsize/
Silent Fanless FreeBSD Server – Redundant Backup.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2019/04/03/silent-fanless-freebsd-server-redundant-backup/
PostgreSQL Performance on Raspberry Pi.
https://blog.rustprooflabs.com/2019/04/postgrseql-pgbench-raspberry-pi
OPNsense 19.1.5 Released.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=12320.0
Blocking Ads Using unbound(8) on OpenBSD.
https://www.tumfatig.net/20190405/blocking-ads-using-unbound8-on-openbsd/
Building FFmpeg on Solaris 11.4 Using solaris-userland.
https://notallmicrosoft.blogspot.com/2019/04/building-ffmpeg-on-solaris-114-using.html
NetBSD Desktop Part 7 – Simple Performance Tweaks.
https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/43-netbsd-desktop-pt-7-simple-performance-tweaks
Installing Ghost on FreeBSD 11.1.
https://idontwatch.tv/installing-ghost-on-freebsd-11-1/
In Other BSDs for 2019/04/06.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/04/06/22736.html
Major Linux Problems on the Desktop – 2019 Edition.
https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.current.html
TMUX Plugin tmux-battery adds support for OpenBSD apm.
https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-battery/pull/77
Scripting FreeBSD Updates.
https://www.anserinae.net/scripting-freebsd-updates.html
Vagrant adds proper VirtualBox share folders support for FreeBSD guests.
https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/pull/10717
entr(1) – run arbitrary commands when files change.
http://eradman.com/entrproject/
Hardware
Story of the 3Dfx Voodoo 1.
http://fabiensanglard.net/3dfx_sst1/index.html
TSMC and OIP Ecosystem Partners Deliver Industry First Complete Design Infrastructure for 5nm Process Technology.
https://www.tsmc.com/tsmcdotcom/PRListingNewsAction.do?action=detail&newsid=THPGWQTHTH&language=E
Why AMD EPYC Rome 2P Will Have 128-160 PCIe Gen4 Lanes and a Bonus.
https://www.servethehome.com/why-amd-epyc-rome-2p-will-have-128-160-pcie-gen4-lanes-and-a-bonus/
How SolidRun aims to bridge ARM developer gap with 16-core workstation board.
https://www.techrepublic.com/articl...veloper-gap-with-a-16-core-workstation-board/
Intel Xeon Platinum 9200 Formerly Cascade Lake-AP Launched.
Including 56-core 112-thread dual-die 400W Beast.
https://www.servethehome.com/intel-xeon-platinum-9200-formerly-cascade-lake-ap-launched/
Hard Drive Temperature – Does It Matter?
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-temperature-does-it-matter/
Why 2019 Foreshadows Per Socket Licenseageddon.
https://www.servethehome.com/2019-foreshadows-per-socket-licenseageddon/
Life
Ctrl-Alt-Delete: Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders.
https://onezero.medium.com/ctrl-alt-delete-the-planned-obsolescence-of-old-coders-9c5f440ee68
Privacy is Just the First Step – the Goal is Data Ownership.
https://thetoolsweneed.com/privacy-is-just-the-first-step-the-goal-is-data-ownership/
Picture shows anti ageing drugs really DO work.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/...ture-shows-anti-ageing-drugs-really-work.html
Second Order Thinking – What Smart People Use to Outperform.
https://fs.blog/2016/04/second-order-thinking/
Other
Introducing Warp – 1.1.1.1 – Fixing Mobile Internet Performance and Security – Better VPN.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/
I tried creating web browser and Google blocked me.
https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/google-widevine-blocked-my-browser/
Facebook secretly lobbied in favor of Article 13 of undesired EU copyright directive.
http://hacknews.eu/2019/04/02/faceb...ticle-13-of-undesired-eu-copyright-directive/
Serenity: New (x86) UNIX-like Operating System.
https://www.osnews.com/story/129716/serenity-a-new-unix-like-operating-system/
https://github.com/awesomekling/serenity
Microsoft announces it will shut down ebook program and confiscate its customers libraries.
https://boingboing.net/2019/04/02/burning-libraries.html
Real Open Source – User Mindset.
https://medium.com/@MartinCracauer/real-open-source-the-user-mindset-6c1c7bf4695b
EOF
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