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
Install NodeBB Forum with Nginx and Let’s Encrypt on FreeBSD 12.
https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-nodebb-forum-on-freebsd-12/
FreeBSD Makes nvme(4) Driver More NUMA Aware.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=352630
Nomad Task Driver for Launching FreeBSD Jails.
https://github.com/trivago/nomad-pot-driver
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=512683
FreeBSD Adds nocover and emptydir Mount Options.
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21458
FreeBSD Adds updatesready and showconfig Arguments to freebsd-update Command.
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21473
Minio Won Strata Data Award for the Most Significant Open Source Project.
View: https://twitter.com/Minio/status/1177224948911431680
Install Vanilla Forum with Nginx and Let’s Encrypt on FreeBSD 12.
https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-vanilla-forum-nginx-on-freebsd-12/
The iocage 1.2 Released.
https://github.com/iocage/iocage/releases/tag/1.2
BSD Now 317: Bots Building Jails.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/317
Supervised FreeBSD rc.d Script for Go Daemon.
https://redbyte.eu/en/blog/supervised-freebsd-init-script-for-go-deamon/
In Other BSDs for 2019/09/28.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/09/28/23534.html
Vagrant Plugin which Enables FreeBSD’s bhyve as Backend.
https://github.com/jesa7955/vagrant-bhyve
FreeBSD 12.1-BETA2 Now Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-snapshots/2019-September/000601.html
The sysutils/automount on FreeBSD Gets Update from 1.5.8 to 1.7.0 Version.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239998
Creating FreeBSD’s Bhyve VM Within VPN Connection.
https://larastechlab.blogspot.com/2019/09/creating-bhyve-vm-within-vpn-connection.html
ZFS Cannot Destroy pool/data Dataset Already Exists.
https://oshogbo.vexillium.org/blog/69/
LibreSSL 3.0.1 Released.
https://bsdsec.net/articles/libressl-3-0-1-released
FreeBSD Kernel Hacking.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FUub_UtF3c
QT5 5.13 Landed in FreeBSD.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/513447
Nextcloud 17 Released.
https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextclou...itor-and-next-generation-secure-watermarking/
Hardware
Intel CPUs Hit by NetCAT Security Vulnerability – AMD Not Impacted (Secure).
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-xeon-cpu-netcat-security-vulnerability-flaw,40376.html
Goodbye Motherboard. Hello Silicon Interconnect Fabric.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/goodbye-motherboard-hello-siliconinterconnect-fabric
AMD Ryzen 9 3900 12C/24T 65W Power Efficient CPU Listed.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14912/amds-ryzen-9-3900-a-12core-65w-cpu-listed-by-motherboard-maker
Power9 Prime Previews Future Power10 Memory Boost.
https://www.itjungle.com/2019/09/30/power9-prime-previews-future-power10-memory-boost/
Life
Announcing Your Plans Makes You Less Motivated to Accomplish Them.
https://sivers.org/zipit
Other
Firefox on POWER – Low Level Change to Firefox 70 and ESR Coming.
https://www.talospace.com/2019/09/low-level-change-to-firefox-70-and-esr.html
Text Rendering Hates You.
https://gankra.github.io/blah/text-hates-you/
What Happened to Real Time Strategy (RTS) Genre.
What Happened to the Real Time Strategy Genre
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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
Install NodeBB Forum with Nginx and Let’s Encrypt on FreeBSD 12.
https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-nodebb-forum-on-freebsd-12/
FreeBSD Makes nvme(4) Driver More NUMA Aware.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=352630
Nomad Task Driver for Launching FreeBSD Jails.
https://github.com/trivago/nomad-pot-driver
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=512683
FreeBSD Adds nocover and emptydir Mount Options.
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21458
FreeBSD Adds updatesready and showconfig Arguments to freebsd-update Command.
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21473
Minio Won Strata Data Award for the Most Significant Open Source Project.
View: https://twitter.com/Minio/status/1177224948911431680
Install Vanilla Forum with Nginx and Let’s Encrypt on FreeBSD 12.
https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-vanilla-forum-nginx-on-freebsd-12/
The iocage 1.2 Released.
https://github.com/iocage/iocage/releases/tag/1.2
BSD Now 317: Bots Building Jails.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/317
Supervised FreeBSD rc.d Script for Go Daemon.
https://redbyte.eu/en/blog/supervised-freebsd-init-script-for-go-deamon/
In Other BSDs for 2019/09/28.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/09/28/23534.html
Vagrant Plugin which Enables FreeBSD’s bhyve as Backend.
https://github.com/jesa7955/vagrant-bhyve
FreeBSD 12.1-BETA2 Now Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-snapshots/2019-September/000601.html
The sysutils/automount on FreeBSD Gets Update from 1.5.8 to 1.7.0 Version.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239998
Creating FreeBSD’s Bhyve VM Within VPN Connection.
https://larastechlab.blogspot.com/2019/09/creating-bhyve-vm-within-vpn-connection.html
ZFS Cannot Destroy pool/data Dataset Already Exists.
https://oshogbo.vexillium.org/blog/69/
LibreSSL 3.0.1 Released.
https://bsdsec.net/articles/libressl-3-0-1-released
FreeBSD Kernel Hacking.
QT5 5.13 Landed in FreeBSD.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/513447
Nextcloud 17 Released.
https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextclou...itor-and-next-generation-secure-watermarking/
Hardware
Intel CPUs Hit by NetCAT Security Vulnerability – AMD Not Impacted (Secure).
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-xeon-cpu-netcat-security-vulnerability-flaw,40376.html
Goodbye Motherboard. Hello Silicon Interconnect Fabric.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/goodbye-motherboard-hello-siliconinterconnect-fabric
AMD Ryzen 9 3900 12C/24T 65W Power Efficient CPU Listed.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14912/amds-ryzen-9-3900-a-12core-65w-cpu-listed-by-motherboard-maker
Power9 Prime Previews Future Power10 Memory Boost.
https://www.itjungle.com/2019/09/30/power9-prime-previews-future-power10-memory-boost/
Life
Announcing Your Plans Makes You Less Motivated to Accomplish Them.
https://sivers.org/zipit
Other
Firefox on POWER – Low Level Change to Firefox 70 and ESR Coming.
https://www.talospace.com/2019/09/low-level-change-to-firefox-70-and-esr.html
Text Rendering Hates You.
https://gankra.github.io/blah/text-hates-you/
What Happened to Real Time Strategy (RTS) Genre.
What Happened to the Real Time Strategy Genre
EOF
Continue reading...