Valuable News – 2019/07/01

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 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 What’s Coming Up for PowerPC.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ppc/2019-June/010632.html

Mastery with SQL – Learn PostgreSQL 11 and Modern SQL.
https://www.masterywithsql.com/

FreeBSD gets PCI HDAudio device model for Bhyve coded on Google Summer of Code 2016.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=349335
https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2016/HDAudioEmulationForBhyve

OmniOS Community Edition r151030h/r151028ah/r151022df Available.
https://omniosce.org/article/030h-028ah-022df

FreeBSD Security Advisory – FreeBSD-SA-19:08.rack.
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:08.rack.asc

DragonFly BSD adds MDS mitigation support for Intel side channel attacks.
http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2019-May/718899.html

FreeNAS 11.2-U5 Available.
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/library/freenas-11-2-u5/

Automated OpenBSD Deployment on vmd(8).
https://www.tumfatig.net/20190625/automated-openbsd-deployment-on-vmd8/

Future of Python on Solaris.
https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/future-of-python-on-solaris

Native Data and Metadata Encryption for ZFS on Illumos.
https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/eb633035c80613ec93d62f90482837adaaf21a0a

PostgreSQL Periodic Table.
View: https://twitter.com/postgresql_007/status/1142383616829349889

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9qP1xcXYAExaU5.jpg:large

Adapting TriforceAFL for NetBSD – Part 1.
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/adapting_triforceafl_for_netbsd_part

S3 Benchmark – MinIO on NVMe.
https://blog.min.io/s3-benchmark-minio-on-nvme/?utm_content=95062189
https://min.io/resources/MinIO-throughput-benchmarks-on-NVMe-SSD.pdf

FreeBSD Sticker Party Order Form.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdlR_RxPQ09q1bAkVU1j2LcTkJICsvIysJi-lL7PmGA8U3zPQ/viewform

BSD Now 304 – Prospering with Vulkan.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/304

Managing Oracle Solaris Through REST API.
https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/managing-oracle-solaris-through-rest

FreeBSD Journal – May/June 2019 Issue.
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/past-issues/freebsd-for-makers/

FreeBSD will now expose kernel build-ID through uname -b command.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=349469

Why Not Use DNS Over HTTPS (DoH)?
https://www.bsdhowto.ch/doh.html

OpenBSD Implements GPU Throttling.
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=156137425703557&w=2

Joyent – ZFS RAIDZ on Disk Format Versus Small Blocks.
View: https://youtu.be/sTvVIF5v2dw


NSA Reverse Engineering (SRE) Framework Ghidra Ported to FreeBSD.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=505315

FreeBSD will not omit SWAP line in top(1) when there are no swap devices.
https://reviews.freebsd.org/rS349235

FreeBSD 11.3-RC3 Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2019-June/091312.html

FreeBSD added 5-10% CPU savings on heavy web serving workloads with sendfile(2).
View: https://twitter.com/FreeBSDHelp/status/1144880134584852481

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=349529

In Other BSDs for 2019/06/29
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/06/29/23109.html

Death Watch for X Window System Has Probably Started.
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/XDeathwatchStarts

FreeBSD ACPI Modifications.
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/acpi-error-excess-arguments-asl-declared-5-acpi-requires-4.71283/

Enlightenment on OpenBSD.
http://haxlab.org/efl.html

History of Linux Complexity.
https://ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/blog/2019/05/29/history-of-linux-complexity/

The Joy of IoT.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-K5sinXUAAcKnh.png:large

Hardware


Interview with AMD Forrest Norrod: Naples/Rome/Milan/Genoa CPUs.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14568/an-interview-with-amds-forrest-norrod-naples-rome-milan-genoa

Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now from $35 to $55.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-from-35/

Raspberry Pi 4 versus Raspberry Pi 3 Plus (Model B) Performance.
https://core-electronics.com.au/tutorials/raspberry-pi-4-vs-3-model-b-performance-benchmark.html

ZSTOR GS41100 – 4U 100 Bay Dense Storage Server with Only 1 Meter Depth.
https://zstor.de/en/gs41100-100-bay-petabyte-storage-server.html

Vulnerability in AMD SEV (Secure Encrypted Virtualization) for EPYC.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/1458...irtualization-for-epyc-update-now-to-build-22

Intel Internal Employees Letter – AMD Competitive Profile.
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/c5nb01/amd_competitive_profile_where_we_go_toetotoe_why/

https://vermaden.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/intel-internal-amd-letter.png

Seagate Backup Plus Portable 5TB and Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB Review – SMR for Consumer Market.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/1453...5tb-backup-plus-slim-2tb-review-portable-smr/

VESA Announces DisplayPort 2.0 Standard – 8K Monitors Bandwidth and Beyond.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/1459...-20-standard-bandwidth-for-8k-monitors-beyond

All Ryzen – Q&A with AMD CEO Lisa Su.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14579/all-ryzen-qa-with-amd-ceo-dr-lisa-su

ASRock EPYC3251D4I-2T EPYC Mini ITX Motherboard.
https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=EPYC3251D4I-2T#Specifications

ICY DOCK 5.25″ Bay Solutions.
https://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=192

Life


Learning Secret – Do Not Take Notes with Laptop.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret-don-t-take-notes-with-a-laptop/

Other


Revolut Does Not Care About You.
https://www.stavros.io/posts/revolut-doesnt-care-about-you/

Brave Improves Its Ad Blocker Performance by 69 TIMES with New Engine Implementation in Rust.
https://brave.com/improved-ad-blocker-performance/

Boeing 737 MAX Software Outsourced to $9 per Hour Engineers in India.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/boeings-737-max-software-outsourced-204657048.html

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