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
EOF
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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 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.
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
EOF
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