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 12.1 Available on Azure Marketplace.
https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/thefreebsdfoundation.freebsd-12_1
NomadBSD 1.3.2 Upgraded to FreeBSD 12.1.
https://gnulinux.ro/blog-en-7378-nomadbsd-132-has-been-upgraded-to-freebsd-12
Most of ElementaryOS Desktop and Applications Already Ported to FreeBSD.
View: https://twitter.com/olivierd_/status/1280176302960623618
View: https://twitter.com/olivierd_/status/1236394387732606978
Minimal CI (Continuous Integration) System Used by BSD.lv Projects.
https://github.com/kristapsdz/minci
First OpenBSD powerpc64 Snapshots Available.
https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20200707001113
Graphical Partition Editor xdisk for FreeBSD.
https://github.com/random532/xdisk
View: https://twitter.com/Lazar46597166/status/1280598197375729664
DragonflyBSD Extends devd(8) to Automatically Create Child wlanX Interfaces.
http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2020-June/769365.html
Minio Distributed Mode on FreeBSD with TLS.
https://honeyguide.eu/posts/minio/
FreeBSD CFT for Vendor OpenZFS.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2020-July/056268.html
BSD Now 358 – OpenBSD Kubernetes Clusters.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/358
Getting Into FreeBSD – Package Management.
View: https://youtu.be/mnCiXWkUOhM
Bareos 19.2.8 with Various Improvements.
https://www.bareos.com/en/company_news/19.2.8-en1.html
Sirius – OpenSolaris on System Z.
https://download.sinenomine.net/opensolaris/siriusguide.pdf
LibreOffice – Next Five Years.
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/825598/21fb7c2a3f9358e7/
Package Management on Linux/BSD/Solaris.
https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/package-management.html
FreeBSD Working Nicely on PinebookPro.
View: https://twitter.com/DarkainMX/status/1282114919526068225
iXsystems TrueCommand 1.3 Provides Seamless Management of TrueNAS Instances.
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/truecommand-1-3/
HardenedBSD Deep Integration of Filesystem Extended Attribute Support.
https://hardenedbsd.org/article/sha...gration-filesystem-extended-attribute-support
In Other BSDs for 2020/07/11.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2020/07/11/24721.html
Focker is FreeBSD Image Orchestration Tool in Vein of Docker.
https://github.com/sadaszewski/focker
https://github.com/sadaszewski/focker/blob/master/docs/Basic_Usage_Guide.md
Script snapaid to Fetch FreeBSD Snapshots (and Releases) Very Easy.
https://funkthat.com/gitea/jmg/snapaid
Hardware
WD Gold 16TB/18TB/20TB Models Inbound Plus EAMR.
https://www.servethehome.com/wd-gold-16tb-18tb-and-20tb-models-inbound-plus-eamr/
Produce Your Own Physical Chips. For Free. In the Open.
https://fossi-foundation.org/2020/06/30/skywater-pdk
Life
Do Not Remain Nameless to Yourself.
https://lettersofnote.com/2015/10/23/do-not-remain-nameless-to-yourself/
New German Law Would Force ISPs to Allow Secret Service to Install Trojans on User Devices.
https://www.privateinternetaccess.c...t-service-to-install-trojans-on-user-devices/
Other
New State of the Art H.266/VVC Codec.
https://newsletter.fraunhofer.de/-viewonline2/17386/465/11/14SHcBTt/V44RELLZBp/1
Google Drops blogspot.in Domain Breaking Hundreds of Thousands of Permalinks.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23767781
New Whoogle Search Engine.
https://whoogle.sdf.org/
New Runnaroo Search Engine.
https://www.runnaroo.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23771131
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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 12.1 Available on Azure Marketplace.
https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/thefreebsdfoundation.freebsd-12_1
NomadBSD 1.3.2 Upgraded to FreeBSD 12.1.
https://gnulinux.ro/blog-en-7378-nomadbsd-132-has-been-upgraded-to-freebsd-12
Most of ElementaryOS Desktop and Applications Already Ported to FreeBSD.
View: https://twitter.com/olivierd_/status/1280176302960623618
View: https://twitter.com/olivierd_/status/1236394387732606978
Minimal CI (Continuous Integration) System Used by BSD.lv Projects.
https://github.com/kristapsdz/minci
First OpenBSD powerpc64 Snapshots Available.
https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20200707001113
Graphical Partition Editor xdisk for FreeBSD.
https://github.com/random532/xdisk
View: https://twitter.com/Lazar46597166/status/1280598197375729664
DragonflyBSD Extends devd(8) to Automatically Create Child wlanX Interfaces.
http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2020-June/769365.html
Minio Distributed Mode on FreeBSD with TLS.
https://honeyguide.eu/posts/minio/
FreeBSD CFT for Vendor OpenZFS.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2020-July/056268.html
BSD Now 358 – OpenBSD Kubernetes Clusters.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/358
Getting Into FreeBSD – Package Management.
Bareos 19.2.8 with Various Improvements.
https://www.bareos.com/en/company_news/19.2.8-en1.html
Sirius – OpenSolaris on System Z.
https://download.sinenomine.net/opensolaris/siriusguide.pdf
LibreOffice – Next Five Years.
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/825598/21fb7c2a3f9358e7/
Package Management on Linux/BSD/Solaris.
https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/package-management.html
FreeBSD Working Nicely on PinebookPro.
View: https://twitter.com/DarkainMX/status/1282114919526068225
iXsystems TrueCommand 1.3 Provides Seamless Management of TrueNAS Instances.
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/truecommand-1-3/
HardenedBSD Deep Integration of Filesystem Extended Attribute Support.
https://hardenedbsd.org/article/sha...gration-filesystem-extended-attribute-support
In Other BSDs for 2020/07/11.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2020/07/11/24721.html
Focker is FreeBSD Image Orchestration Tool in Vein of Docker.
https://github.com/sadaszewski/focker
https://github.com/sadaszewski/focker/blob/master/docs/Basic_Usage_Guide.md
Script snapaid to Fetch FreeBSD Snapshots (and Releases) Very Easy.
https://funkthat.com/gitea/jmg/snapaid
Hardware
WD Gold 16TB/18TB/20TB Models Inbound Plus EAMR.
https://www.servethehome.com/wd-gold-16tb-18tb-and-20tb-models-inbound-plus-eamr/
Produce Your Own Physical Chips. For Free. In the Open.
https://fossi-foundation.org/2020/06/30/skywater-pdk
Life
Do Not Remain Nameless to Yourself.
https://lettersofnote.com/2015/10/23/do-not-remain-nameless-to-yourself/
New German Law Would Force ISPs to Allow Secret Service to Install Trojans on User Devices.
https://www.privateinternetaccess.c...t-service-to-install-trojans-on-user-devices/
Other
New State of the Art H.266/VVC Codec.
https://newsletter.fraunhofer.de/-viewonline2/17386/465/11/14SHcBTt/V44RELLZBp/1
Google Drops blogspot.in Domain Breaking Hundreds of Thousands of Permalinks.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23767781
New Whoogle Search Engine.
https://whoogle.sdf.org/
New Runnaroo Search Engine.
https://www.runnaroo.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23771131
EOF
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