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 7 Day Challenge.
https://tylertechnow.blogspot.com/2019/11/freebsd-7-day-challenge.html
Create New Locale on FreeBSD.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/550204/create-a-new-locale-on-freebsd
NomadBSD 1.3-RC1 Available.
http://nomadbsd.org/index.html#1.3-RC1
FreeBSD GEOM Nop.
https://oshogbo.vexillium.org/blog/71/
Prometheus Exporter to Make FreeBSD gstat(8) Data Available for Graphana.
View: https://twitter.com/tykling/status/1196520976466481152
https://github.com/tykling/gstat_exporter
https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/11223
https://github.com/tykling/ansible-...eus_monitored_server/tasks/gstat_exporter.yml
https://blog.tyk.nu/blog/all-in-a-days-work-prometheus-gstat_exporter-and-grafana-dashboard/
Sourcetrail Cross Platform Source Explorer for C/C++/Python/Java is Now Free and Open Source.
https://www.sourcetrail.com/blog/open_source/
https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail
Manage Packages with pkg(8) Binary Package Manager on FreeBSD 12.
https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-manage-packages-with-pkg-on-freebsd-12/
NomadBSD 1.3 RC1 Released with FreeBSD 12.1 Base.
https://www.opensourcefeed.org/nomadbsd-1.3rc1/
NomadBSD – Installation and First Impressions.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DglP7SbnlA
FreeBSD Journal 2019/09-10 Available.
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/past-issues/security-3/
Docker Patched Most Severe Copy Vulnerability to Date with CVE-2019-14271.
https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com...py-vulnerability-to-date-with-cve-2019-14271/
Mystery of Unix History.
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10051-a-mystery-of-unix-history
FreeBSD Now Has /etc/os-release in Base System.
View: https://twitter.com/tcberner/status/1197389407113732096
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=354922
DARPA Ported Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer from NetBSD to FreeBSD.
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/6e5970c8f44eec5f975888cbfafd1ee5fb5bf4b3
BSD Now 325 – Cracking Rainbows.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/325
On Its 50th Birthday UNIX is Still Surprisingly Young.
https://www.bell-labs.com/var/articles/its-50th-birthday-unix-still-surprisingly-young/
What is the toor User on FreeBSD?
https://linux-audit.com/what-is-the-toor-user-on-freebsd/
OPNsense 19.7.7 Released.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=15076.0
FreeBSD 12.1 ARM64 Available on AWS Marketplace.
https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B081NF7BY7
FreeBSD Adds NIC KTLS for Chelsio T6 Adapters.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=354974
FreeBSD Foundation Q3 2019 Status Update.
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-foundation-q3-2019-status-update/
Minio – New Metrics of Object Storage.
https://blog.min.io/the-new-metrics-of-object-storage/
In Other BSDs for 2019/11/23.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/11/23/23793.html
Hardware
Best Consumer 3.5 Hard Drives – Holiday 2019.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12075/best-consumer-hdds
OpenPOWER Bettering BMC and Bring Up.
https://www.talospace.com/2019/11/bettering-bmc-and-bring-up.html
Intel Apologizing Customers for CPU Shipment Delays – Publishes Letter.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/1513...customers-apologizing-for-cpu-shipment-delays
Life
Three Decades Later – Life Experiences and Mid-Life Functioning of 1980s Heavy Metal Groupies/Musicians/Fans.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15298868.2015.1036918?journalCode=psai20
80s Metalhead Kids Are Alright – Scientific Study Shows That They Became Well Adjusted Adults.
http://www.openculture.com/2019/05/1980s-metalhead-kids-are-alright.html
Other
Firefox UI is Now Built with Web Components.
https://briangrinstead.com/blog/firefox-webcomponents/
https://www.osnews.com/story/130938/the-firefox-ui-is-now-built-with-web-components/
Internet World Despairs as Non-Profit .ORG Sold to Private Equity Firm.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_shambles/
Save the .ORG Domain.
https://savedotorg.org/
Google Cloud Server Left 1.2B People Data Unsecured.
https://www.techradar.com/news/google-cloud-server-left-a-billion-peoples-data-unsecured
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 7 Day Challenge.
https://tylertechnow.blogspot.com/2019/11/freebsd-7-day-challenge.html
Create New Locale on FreeBSD.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/550204/create-a-new-locale-on-freebsd
NomadBSD 1.3-RC1 Available.
http://nomadbsd.org/index.html#1.3-RC1
FreeBSD GEOM Nop.
https://oshogbo.vexillium.org/blog/71/
Prometheus Exporter to Make FreeBSD gstat(8) Data Available for Graphana.
View: https://twitter.com/tykling/status/1196520976466481152
https://github.com/tykling/gstat_exporter
https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/11223
https://github.com/tykling/ansible-...eus_monitored_server/tasks/gstat_exporter.yml
https://blog.tyk.nu/blog/all-in-a-days-work-prometheus-gstat_exporter-and-grafana-dashboard/
Sourcetrail Cross Platform Source Explorer for C/C++/Python/Java is Now Free and Open Source.
https://www.sourcetrail.com/blog/open_source/
https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail
Manage Packages with pkg(8) Binary Package Manager on FreeBSD 12.
https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-manage-packages-with-pkg-on-freebsd-12/
NomadBSD 1.3 RC1 Released with FreeBSD 12.1 Base.
https://www.opensourcefeed.org/nomadbsd-1.3rc1/
NomadBSD – Installation and First Impressions.
FreeBSD Journal 2019/09-10 Available.
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/past-issues/security-3/
Docker Patched Most Severe Copy Vulnerability to Date with CVE-2019-14271.
https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com...py-vulnerability-to-date-with-cve-2019-14271/
Mystery of Unix History.
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10051-a-mystery-of-unix-history
FreeBSD Now Has /etc/os-release in Base System.
View: https://twitter.com/tcberner/status/1197389407113732096
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=354922
DARPA Ported Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer from NetBSD to FreeBSD.
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/6e5970c8f44eec5f975888cbfafd1ee5fb5bf4b3
BSD Now 325 – Cracking Rainbows.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/325
On Its 50th Birthday UNIX is Still Surprisingly Young.
https://www.bell-labs.com/var/articles/its-50th-birthday-unix-still-surprisingly-young/
What is the toor User on FreeBSD?
https://linux-audit.com/what-is-the-toor-user-on-freebsd/
OPNsense 19.7.7 Released.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=15076.0
FreeBSD 12.1 ARM64 Available on AWS Marketplace.
https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B081NF7BY7
FreeBSD Adds NIC KTLS for Chelsio T6 Adapters.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=354974
FreeBSD Foundation Q3 2019 Status Update.
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-foundation-q3-2019-status-update/
Minio – New Metrics of Object Storage.
https://blog.min.io/the-new-metrics-of-object-storage/
In Other BSDs for 2019/11/23.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/11/23/23793.html
Hardware
Best Consumer 3.5 Hard Drives – Holiday 2019.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12075/best-consumer-hdds
OpenPOWER Bettering BMC and Bring Up.
https://www.talospace.com/2019/11/bettering-bmc-and-bring-up.html
Intel Apologizing Customers for CPU Shipment Delays – Publishes Letter.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/1513...customers-apologizing-for-cpu-shipment-delays
Life
Three Decades Later – Life Experiences and Mid-Life Functioning of 1980s Heavy Metal Groupies/Musicians/Fans.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15298868.2015.1036918?journalCode=psai20
80s Metalhead Kids Are Alright – Scientific Study Shows That They Became Well Adjusted Adults.
http://www.openculture.com/2019/05/1980s-metalhead-kids-are-alright.html
Other
Firefox UI is Now Built with Web Components.
https://briangrinstead.com/blog/firefox-webcomponents/
https://www.osnews.com/story/130938/the-firefox-ui-is-now-built-with-web-components/
Internet World Despairs as Non-Profit .ORG Sold to Private Equity Firm.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_shambles/
Save the .ORG Domain.
https://savedotorg.org/
Google Cloud Server Left 1.2B People Data Unsecured.
https://www.techradar.com/news/google-cloud-server-left-a-billion-peoples-data-unsecured
EOF
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