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
Ubuntu 20.04 Adds zsys for ZFS Snapshots Management.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/03/ubuntu-20-04s-zsys-adds-zfs-snapshots-to-package-management/
MySQL 5.6 Now Successfully Builds with LibreSSL on FreeBSD.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=528272
Set Up Windows SMB Shares on FreeNAS.
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/windows-smb-shares-on-freenas/
DragonflyBSD 5.6.3 Released.
http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2020-March/720668.html
NetBSD Accomplishment of Porting ptrace(2) Test Scenarios.
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/accomplishment_of_porting_ptrace_2
NetBSD Towards Backtracing Through Signal Trampolines and Fresh libc++ Library.
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/towards_backtracing_through_signal_trampolines
GNOME 3.36 Released.
https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.36/
FreeBSD to Sponsor Work for 802.11ac Support.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=802.11ac-FreeBSD-Sponsor
BSD Now 341 – U-NAS-ification.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/341
Most Surprising Unix Programs.
https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2020-March/020664.html
Adjusting acpi_video Brightness Increments on FreeBSD.
https://www.davidschlachter.com/misc/freebsd-acpi_video-thinkpad-display-brightness
Hardware
Amazon ARM Based GRAVITON2 Against AMD and Intel – Comparing Cloud Compute.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15578/cloud-clash-amazon-graviton2-arm-against-intel-and-amd/
New Flaw in Intel Chips Lets Attackers Slip Their Own Data Into Secure Enclave.
https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/10/n...kers-slip-their-own-data-into-secure-enclave/
HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus Review.
https://www.servethehome.com/hpe-proliant-microserver-gen10-plus-review-this-is-super/
Other
Fastest Supercomputer on Earth is Being Deployed Against Coronavirus.
https://www.extremetech.com/computi...n-earth-is-being-deployed-against-coronavirus
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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
Ubuntu 20.04 Adds zsys for ZFS Snapshots Management.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/03/ubuntu-20-04s-zsys-adds-zfs-snapshots-to-package-management/
MySQL 5.6 Now Successfully Builds with LibreSSL on FreeBSD.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=528272
Set Up Windows SMB Shares on FreeNAS.
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/windows-smb-shares-on-freenas/
DragonflyBSD 5.6.3 Released.
http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2020-March/720668.html
NetBSD Accomplishment of Porting ptrace(2) Test Scenarios.
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/accomplishment_of_porting_ptrace_2
NetBSD Towards Backtracing Through Signal Trampolines and Fresh libc++ Library.
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/towards_backtracing_through_signal_trampolines
GNOME 3.36 Released.
https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.36/
FreeBSD to Sponsor Work for 802.11ac Support.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=802.11ac-FreeBSD-Sponsor
BSD Now 341 – U-NAS-ification.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/341
Most Surprising Unix Programs.
https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2020-March/020664.html
Adjusting acpi_video Brightness Increments on FreeBSD.
https://www.davidschlachter.com/misc/freebsd-acpi_video-thinkpad-display-brightness
Hardware
Amazon ARM Based GRAVITON2 Against AMD and Intel – Comparing Cloud Compute.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15578/cloud-clash-amazon-graviton2-arm-against-intel-and-amd/
New Flaw in Intel Chips Lets Attackers Slip Their Own Data Into Secure Enclave.
https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/10/n...kers-slip-their-own-data-into-secure-enclave/
HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus Review.
https://www.servethehome.com/hpe-proliant-microserver-gen10-plus-review-this-is-super/
Other
Fastest Supercomputer on Earth is Being Deployed Against Coronavirus.
https://www.extremetech.com/computi...n-earth-is-being-deployed-against-coronavirus
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