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).
EXT4 (and FUSE) on FreeBSD.
https://euroquis.nl/freebsd/2020/10/26/fuse.html
NetBSD qat(4) Driver Ported to FreeBSD.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2020-October/056634.html
Request to Security Researchers from Illumos.
https://kebe.com/blog/?p=505
Build DragonflyBSD Using Clang 10 Compiler.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2020/10/26/25101.html
FreeBSD GNOME 3.38.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdEx81Rr5-8
OpenBSD Added AMD IOMMU and Intel VT-d Support to vmd Daemon.
View: https://twitter.com/OpenBSD_src/status/1320921999879729152
FreeBSD Fridays – Introduction to Bhyve.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXi1xaUqr20
FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE Now Available.
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.2R/announce.html
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.2R/hardware.html
Ubuntu Based Linux Jail on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE.
https://wiki.freebsd.org/LinuxJails
BSD Weekly – Issue 43.
https://bsdweekly.com/issues/43
On Abandoning X11 Server.
https://ajaxnwnk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-abandoning-x-server.html
View: https://old.reddit.com/r/wayland/comments/85q78y/why_im_not_going_to_switch_to_wayland_yet/
Boycott Wayland – It Breaks Everything.
https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277
Video – C Programming on MacOS System 6 – Porting OpenBSD diff(1) Tool.
https://jcs.org/2020/10/28/openbsd_diff
Upgrading from FreeBSD 12.1 to 12.2.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AThaDfRWzlc
OpenVPN as Default Gateway on OpenBSD.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2020-10-27-openbsd-openvpn.html
BSD Now 374 – OpenBSD 25th Anniversary.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/374
awk: BEGIN.
https://jemma.dev/blog/awk-part-1
How OpenBSD-stable Packages are Built.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2020-10-29-official-openbsd-stable-architecture.html
Klara Systems – OpenZFS – Using zpool iostat to Monitor Pool Performance and Health.
https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs-using-zpool-iostat-to-monitor-pool-perfomance-and-health/
FreeBSD Essential to Bringing CHERI and ARM Morello Processor to Life.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/news-...ing-cheri-and-arms-morello-processor-to-life/
Simple Solution for Outgoing Mail from FreeBSD System.
https://jpmens.net/2020/03/05/simple-solution-for-outgoing-mail-from-a-freebsd-system/
FreeBSD on Lenovo ThinkPad X270.
https://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x270/
Dennis Ritchie Day.
https://www.oreilly.com/content/dennis-ritchie-day/
OpenBSD 6.8 Cannot Boot on Some Intel Boards.
https://www.vincentdelft.be/post/post_20201031
In Other BSDs for 2020/10/31.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2020/10/31/25104.html
Port of the Week – rclone.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2020-10-28-portoftheweek-rclone.html
Klara Systems – OpenZFS – Understanding Transparent Compression.
https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs1-understanding-transparent-compression/
Neighbourly Solution to X is Deprecated Conundrum.
https://www.divergent-desktop.org/blog/2020/10/29/improving-x/
HardenedBSD 2020/10 Status Report.
https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2020-10-31/hardenedbsd-october-2020-status-report
FuryBSD Project is Dead.
https://www.furybsd.org/
SerenityOS 2020/10 Update.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-IFGxw-kV4
FreeBSD 12.2 Released – Supports Linux in Jail and Has Better Hardware Support.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-12.2-Released
Sheridan Computers – Upgrade FreeNAS 11.3 to TrueNAS CORE 12.0.
https://youtu.be/zDxlLwOUoUw
OpenIndiana Hipster 2020.10 Released.
https://www.openindiana.org/2020/11/01/openindiana-hipster-2020-10-is-here/
http://docs.openindiana.org/release-notes/2020.10-release-notes/
Firefox Gamepad API on FreeBSD.
https://waitman.net/Firefox-gamepad-FreeBSD.php
OmniOS v11 r151036 Release Notes.
https://github.com/omniosorg/omnios-build/blob/r151036/doc/ReleaseNotes.md
Chuwi LarkBox Pro Mini PC Gets Faster Intel J4125 Processor.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/1...ini-pc-gets-a-faster-celeron-j4125-processor/
AMD in $35 Billion All Stock Acquisition of Xilinx.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16196/amd-in-35-billion-allstock-acquisition-of-xilinx
AMIGA 1000 Phoenix Enhanced Motherboard
https://www.osnews.com/story/132524/the-amiga-1000-phoenix-enhanced-motherboard/
https://retrohax.net/amiga-1000-project-phoenix-motherborad/
https://www.amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?t=476
http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/phoenix
AMD Reveals Radeon RX 6000 Series – RDNA2.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/1620...a2-starts-at-the-highend-coming-november-18th
Looking Back on 35 Years as Amiga User.
https://bytecellar.com/2020/10/27/looking-back-on-35-years-as-an-amiga-user/
Rare Fanless Acer AIO.
https://www.fanlesstech.com/2020/10/rare-fanless-aio.html
Heart of RISC-V Development – Mini-ITX SiFive HiFive Unmatched.
https://www.sifive.com/blog/the-heart-of-risc-v-development-is-unmatched
https://sifive.cdn.prismic.io/sifiv...report+-+sifive+raises+risc-v+performance.pdf
SiFive Launches Most Compelling RISC-V Mini-ITX Development Board Yet.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=sifive-riscv-unmatched
Best Consumer Hard Drives 2020/10.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12075/best-consumer-hdds
ARM64 Processor Marvell ThunderX3 Cancelled – Team Laid Off.
https://twitter.com/tpains/status/1322253556364140545
Researchers Extract Secret Key Used to Encrypt Intel CPU Code.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/202...ct-secret-key-used-to-encrypt-intel-cpu-code/
SolidRun HoneyComb LX2K.
https://shop.solid-run.com/product/SRLX216S00D00GE064H06CH/
Raspberry Pi 400 Keyboard Computer.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/1...omputer-features-1-8-ghz-bcm2711c0-processor/
Jerome Gardou Hired Full Time to Work on ReacOS Memory Manager.
https://reactos.org/project-news/jerome-gardou-hired-full-time/
RIAA youtube-dl Takedown Ticks Off Developers and GitHub CEO.
https://torrentfreak.com/riaas-youtube-dl-takedown-ticks-of-developers-and-githubs-ceo-201027/
Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project Into Political Ads Targeting.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebo...oject-into-political-ad-targeting-11603488533
New youtube-dl 2020.11.01.1 Released.
https://youtube-dl.org/
Brutalist HTML.
https://secretgeek.github.io/html_wysiwyg/html.html
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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
EXT4 (and FUSE) on FreeBSD.
https://euroquis.nl/freebsd/2020/10/26/fuse.html
NetBSD qat(4) Driver Ported to FreeBSD.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2020-October/056634.html
Request to Security Researchers from Illumos.
https://kebe.com/blog/?p=505
Build DragonflyBSD Using Clang 10 Compiler.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2020/10/26/25101.html
FreeBSD GNOME 3.38.
OpenBSD Added AMD IOMMU and Intel VT-d Support to vmd Daemon.
View: https://twitter.com/OpenBSD_src/status/1320921999879729152
FreeBSD Fridays – Introduction to Bhyve.
FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE Now Available.
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.2R/announce.html
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.2R/hardware.html
Ubuntu Based Linux Jail on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE.
https://wiki.freebsd.org/LinuxJails
BSD Weekly – Issue 43.
https://bsdweekly.com/issues/43
On Abandoning X11 Server.
https://ajaxnwnk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-abandoning-x-server.html
View: https://old.reddit.com/r/wayland/comments/85q78y/why_im_not_going_to_switch_to_wayland_yet/
Boycott Wayland – It Breaks Everything.
https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277
Video – C Programming on MacOS System 6 – Porting OpenBSD diff(1) Tool.
https://jcs.org/2020/10/28/openbsd_diff
Upgrading from FreeBSD 12.1 to 12.2.
OpenVPN as Default Gateway on OpenBSD.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2020-10-27-openbsd-openvpn.html
BSD Now 374 – OpenBSD 25th Anniversary.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/374
awk: BEGIN.
https://jemma.dev/blog/awk-part-1
How OpenBSD-stable Packages are Built.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2020-10-29-official-openbsd-stable-architecture.html
Klara Systems – OpenZFS – Using zpool iostat to Monitor Pool Performance and Health.
https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs-using-zpool-iostat-to-monitor-pool-perfomance-and-health/
FreeBSD Essential to Bringing CHERI and ARM Morello Processor to Life.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/news-...ing-cheri-and-arms-morello-processor-to-life/
Simple Solution for Outgoing Mail from FreeBSD System.
https://jpmens.net/2020/03/05/simple-solution-for-outgoing-mail-from-a-freebsd-system/
FreeBSD on Lenovo ThinkPad X270.
https://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x270/
Dennis Ritchie Day.
https://www.oreilly.com/content/dennis-ritchie-day/
OpenBSD 6.8 Cannot Boot on Some Intel Boards.
https://www.vincentdelft.be/post/post_20201031
In Other BSDs for 2020/10/31.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2020/10/31/25104.html
Port of the Week – rclone.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2020-10-28-portoftheweek-rclone.html
Klara Systems – OpenZFS – Understanding Transparent Compression.
https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs1-understanding-transparent-compression/
Neighbourly Solution to X is Deprecated Conundrum.
https://www.divergent-desktop.org/blog/2020/10/29/improving-x/
HardenedBSD 2020/10 Status Report.
https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2020-10-31/hardenedbsd-october-2020-status-report
FuryBSD Project is Dead.
https://www.furybsd.org/
SerenityOS 2020/10 Update.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-IFGxw-kV4
FreeBSD 12.2 Released – Supports Linux in Jail and Has Better Hardware Support.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-12.2-Released
Sheridan Computers – Upgrade FreeNAS 11.3 to TrueNAS CORE 12.0.
https://youtu.be/zDxlLwOUoUw
OpenIndiana Hipster 2020.10 Released.
https://www.openindiana.org/2020/11/01/openindiana-hipster-2020-10-is-here/
http://docs.openindiana.org/release-notes/2020.10-release-notes/
Firefox Gamepad API on FreeBSD.
https://waitman.net/Firefox-gamepad-FreeBSD.php
OmniOS v11 r151036 Release Notes.
https://github.com/omniosorg/omnios-build/blob/r151036/doc/ReleaseNotes.md
Hardware
Chuwi LarkBox Pro Mini PC Gets Faster Intel J4125 Processor.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/1...ini-pc-gets-a-faster-celeron-j4125-processor/
AMD in $35 Billion All Stock Acquisition of Xilinx.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16196/amd-in-35-billion-allstock-acquisition-of-xilinx
AMIGA 1000 Phoenix Enhanced Motherboard
https://www.osnews.com/story/132524/the-amiga-1000-phoenix-enhanced-motherboard/
https://retrohax.net/amiga-1000-project-phoenix-motherborad/
https://www.amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?t=476
http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/phoenix
AMD Reveals Radeon RX 6000 Series – RDNA2.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/1620...a2-starts-at-the-highend-coming-november-18th
Looking Back on 35 Years as Amiga User.
https://bytecellar.com/2020/10/27/looking-back-on-35-years-as-an-amiga-user/
Rare Fanless Acer AIO.
https://www.fanlesstech.com/2020/10/rare-fanless-aio.html
Heart of RISC-V Development – Mini-ITX SiFive HiFive Unmatched.
https://www.sifive.com/blog/the-heart-of-risc-v-development-is-unmatched
https://sifive.cdn.prismic.io/sifiv...report+-+sifive+raises+risc-v+performance.pdf
SiFive Launches Most Compelling RISC-V Mini-ITX Development Board Yet.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=sifive-riscv-unmatched
Best Consumer Hard Drives 2020/10.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12075/best-consumer-hdds
ARM64 Processor Marvell ThunderX3 Cancelled – Team Laid Off.
https://twitter.com/tpains/status/1322253556364140545
Researchers Extract Secret Key Used to Encrypt Intel CPU Code.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/202...ct-secret-key-used-to-encrypt-intel-cpu-code/
SolidRun HoneyComb LX2K.
https://shop.solid-run.com/product/SRLX216S00D00GE064H06CH/
Raspberry Pi 400 Keyboard Computer.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/1...omputer-features-1-8-ghz-bcm2711c0-processor/
Other
Jerome Gardou Hired Full Time to Work on ReacOS Memory Manager.
https://reactos.org/project-news/jerome-gardou-hired-full-time/
RIAA youtube-dl Takedown Ticks Off Developers and GitHub CEO.
https://torrentfreak.com/riaas-youtube-dl-takedown-ticks-of-developers-and-githubs-ceo-201027/
Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project Into Political Ads Targeting.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebo...oject-into-political-ad-targeting-11603488533
New youtube-dl 2020.11.01.1 Released.
https://youtube-dl.org/
Brutalist HTML.
https://secretgeek.github.io/html_wysiwyg/html.html
EOF
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