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).
FreeBSD Jails Network Setup (vnet).
https://blog.uidrafter.com/engineering/freebsd-jails-network-setup
The unbound-blacklist-fetch* Scripts with OpenBSD/FreeBSD Config Test and Restart.
https://github.com/vermaden/scripts/commit/df6bf362152f04aed8f38638642e2c6bbf567147
Scripted VirtualBox VM on FreeBSD.
https://blog.uidrafter.com/engineering/scripted-virtualbox-vm-installation
GhostBSD 20.11.28 Overview – Business Class OS.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usYA4i77j1k
Minimal Safe Bash Script Template.
https://betterdev.blog/minimal-safe-bash-script-template/
SerenityOS Now Supports Shared Libraries.
View: https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1338617680815906818
OmniOS Community Edition r151030cf/r151034af/r151036f Available.
https://omniosce.org/article/release-36f-34af-30cf
OpenBSD on TECLAST F7 Plus.
https://www.tumfatig.net/20201215/openbsd-on-teclast-f7-plus/
Christmas Tree in Shell.
https://catonmat.net/christmas-tree-in-the-shell
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Bionic) on FreeBSD with iocage Managed Jails.
https://harshadsharma.com/posts/2020/12/ubuntu-bionic-on-freebsd-with-iocage-managed-jails/
Create Debian 6 (Squeeze) Jail on FreeBSD.
https://iocage.readthedocs.io/en/latest/debian.html
Bareos 20 Released.
https://www.bareos.com/en/company_news/bareos-20-en1.html
https://www.bareos.com/en/press-releases.html?file=files/press/english/bareos-20_en.pdf
GTK 4.0 Released.
https://blog.gtk.org/2020/12/16/gtk-4-0/
FreeBSD src Repository Moving to git Finally.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2020-December/077858.html
PDF Preview in macOS Big Sur is Destroying PDFs – Again.
https://annoying.technology/posts/86f4ea27e4cd90d0/
Host Cryptpad Web Office Suite with OpenBSD.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2020-12-14-cryptpad-openbsd.html
VCS Changes Again for FreeBSD.
https://daemondesktop.blogspot.com/2020/12/vcs-changes-again.html
BSD Now 381 – Shell Origins.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/381
Coreutils Gotchas.
https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-gotchas.html
ArisbluBSD Will Shut Down.
View: https://twitter.com/ArisbluBSD/status/1339694965757079552
ThinkPad X1 Carbon G4 Running FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE.
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/kfhzzv/hardware_thinkpad_x1_carbon_g4_running_freebsd/
https://imgur.com/gallery/fSRazC7
Trying OpenZFS 2.0 on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE.
https://rubenerd.com/trying-openzfs-on-freebsd-12-release/
Klara – Best Practices for Optimizing ZFS.
View: https://vimeo.com/482270291
Klara – Sysadmin Guide to ZFS.
https://vimeo.com/491286840
HardenedBSD Auto Sync with Upstream FreeBSD Source.
https://groups.google.com/a/hardenedbsd.org/g/users/c/55pVswpkuf8/m/lWQNZc9YBAAJ
Tribblix and OmniTribblix m24 Available.
https://tribblix.blogspot.com/2020/12/changes-in-0m24-prerelease.html
https://tribblix.org/download.html
OpenBSD Develops vmm_clock Linux Clocksource Implementation Designed for Use Under vmm(4)/vmd(8) Hypervisor.
https://github.com/voutilad/vmm_clock
In Other BSDs for 2020/12/19.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2020/12/19/25234.html
IcewM 2.0 Released.
https://github.com/ice-wm/icewm/releases/tag/2.0.0
Netflix Patch Allows 190Gb/s of KTLS HTTPS Content from Dual Sockets with Only 13% Cross Domain NUMA Traffic.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=368818
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=368819
FreeBSD Marks Its Subversion Repository as Being Converted to Git.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=368820
Red Hat Continues Pleading Case for Its CentOS Changes.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Red-Hat-CentOS-Pleading-Cont
Implement Zeek on FreeBSD.
https://blog.socruel.nu/freebsd/implement-zeek-on-freebsd.html
Taking OpenZFS 2.0 Out for Spin.
https://ekultails.github.io/ekultails-jekyll-uno/2020/openzfs-2-test-drive/
SerenityOS Adds Network Menu Applet.
https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/4461
CentOS Killed by IBM – Chance to Go New Ways.
https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2020/12/10/centos-killed-by-ibm-a-chance-to-go-new-ways/
Putting OpenBSD in the Cloud.
https://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2015/06/putting-openbsd-cloud/
Advocacy: Why I Personally Prefer FreeBSD over Linux.
http://sekrit.de/webdocs/freebsd/advocacy.html
Foundation Sponsors FreeBSD LLDB Improvements.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/guest-blog-foundation-sponsors-freebsd-lldb-improvements/
Get Started with tmux(1).
https://sunainapai.in/blog/get-started-with-tmux/
RISC-V Ecosystem Highlights in 2020.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/1...ts-in-2020/?hss_channel=tw-722914767636004865
ARM Ampere Altra Shows It Can Compete/Outperform AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ampere-altra-q80
ARM Ampere Altra Review – Dual 80 Cores Server Performance Monster.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16315/the-ampere-altra-review/9
ZimaBoard – $70/$130 Quad Core X86 SBC with Up to 8 GB RAM.
https://blog.jmdawson.co.uk/zimaboard-a-70-single-board-home-server/
Apple Mac Mini and Raspberry Pi Rack Review.
https://www.servethehome.com/myelectronics-nl-apple-mac-mini-and-raspberry-pi-rack-review/
Apple M1 Foreshadows Rise of RISC-V.
https://erik-engheim.medium.com/apple-m1-foreshadows-risc-v-dd63a62b2562
How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops.
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/12/how-and-why-i-stopped-buying-new-laptops.html
Drug Reverses Age Related Mental Decline Within Days.
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/12/419201/drug-reverses-age-related-mental-decline-within-days
Norman Abramson – Father of Wireless Networks – Dies at 88.
https://www.techspot.com/news/87943-norman-abramson-father-wireless-networks-dies-88.html
I Assume I am Below Average.
https://sive.rs/below-average
Lonely People Have Unique Brain Signature.
https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/lone...rhaps-due-to-so-much-imagined-social-contact/
This Column Will Change Your Life: Just Sit Down and Think.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jul/19/change-your-life-sit-down-and-think
Being Kind to Others is Good for Your Health.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201215-why-being-kind-to-others-is-good-for-your-health
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25478869
Firefox 84.0 Released.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/84.0/releasenotes/
Firefox Was Always Enough.
https://www.ianbicking.org/blog/2020/11/firefox-was-always-enough.html
Rust Survey 2020 Results.
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/12/16/rust-survey-2020.html
Why You Can Not Find Search Engine AltaVista on Anymore.
https://tedium.co/2020/12/15/altavista-history-digital-dot-com-domain-name
Reflections on Trusting Trust. [1984]
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf
Hard times create strong programmers.
Strong programmers create frameworks.
Frameworks create weak programmers.
Weak programmers create hard times.
Author:
Andreas Kling
@awesomekling
https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1338953882144301057
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 Jails Network Setup (vnet).
https://blog.uidrafter.com/engineering/freebsd-jails-network-setup
The unbound-blacklist-fetch* Scripts with OpenBSD/FreeBSD Config Test and Restart.
https://github.com/vermaden/scripts/commit/df6bf362152f04aed8f38638642e2c6bbf567147
Scripted VirtualBox VM on FreeBSD.
https://blog.uidrafter.com/engineering/scripted-virtualbox-vm-installation
GhostBSD 20.11.28 Overview – Business Class OS.
Minimal Safe Bash Script Template.
https://betterdev.blog/minimal-safe-bash-script-template/
SerenityOS Now Supports Shared Libraries.
View: https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1338617680815906818
OmniOS Community Edition r151030cf/r151034af/r151036f Available.
https://omniosce.org/article/release-36f-34af-30cf
OpenBSD on TECLAST F7 Plus.
https://www.tumfatig.net/20201215/openbsd-on-teclast-f7-plus/
Christmas Tree in Shell.
https://catonmat.net/christmas-tree-in-the-shell
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Bionic) on FreeBSD with iocage Managed Jails.
https://harshadsharma.com/posts/2020/12/ubuntu-bionic-on-freebsd-with-iocage-managed-jails/
Create Debian 6 (Squeeze) Jail on FreeBSD.
https://iocage.readthedocs.io/en/latest/debian.html
Bareos 20 Released.
https://www.bareos.com/en/company_news/bareos-20-en1.html
https://www.bareos.com/en/press-releases.html?file=files/press/english/bareos-20_en.pdf
GTK 4.0 Released.
https://blog.gtk.org/2020/12/16/gtk-4-0/
FreeBSD src Repository Moving to git Finally.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2020-December/077858.html
PDF Preview in macOS Big Sur is Destroying PDFs – Again.
https://annoying.technology/posts/86f4ea27e4cd90d0/
Host Cryptpad Web Office Suite with OpenBSD.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2020-12-14-cryptpad-openbsd.html
VCS Changes Again for FreeBSD.
https://daemondesktop.blogspot.com/2020/12/vcs-changes-again.html
BSD Now 381 – Shell Origins.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/381
Coreutils Gotchas.
https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-gotchas.html
ArisbluBSD Will Shut Down.
View: https://twitter.com/ArisbluBSD/status/1339694965757079552
ThinkPad X1 Carbon G4 Running FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE.
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/kfhzzv/hardware_thinkpad_x1_carbon_g4_running_freebsd/
https://imgur.com/gallery/fSRazC7
Trying OpenZFS 2.0 on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE.
https://rubenerd.com/trying-openzfs-on-freebsd-12-release/
Klara – Best Practices for Optimizing ZFS.
Klara – Sysadmin Guide to ZFS.
https://vimeo.com/491286840
HardenedBSD Auto Sync with Upstream FreeBSD Source.
https://groups.google.com/a/hardenedbsd.org/g/users/c/55pVswpkuf8/m/lWQNZc9YBAAJ
Tribblix and OmniTribblix m24 Available.
https://tribblix.blogspot.com/2020/12/changes-in-0m24-prerelease.html
https://tribblix.org/download.html
OpenBSD Develops vmm_clock Linux Clocksource Implementation Designed for Use Under vmm(4)/vmd(8) Hypervisor.
https://github.com/voutilad/vmm_clock
In Other BSDs for 2020/12/19.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2020/12/19/25234.html
IcewM 2.0 Released.
https://github.com/ice-wm/icewm/releases/tag/2.0.0
Netflix Patch Allows 190Gb/s of KTLS HTTPS Content from Dual Sockets with Only 13% Cross Domain NUMA Traffic.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=368818
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=368819
FreeBSD Marks Its Subversion Repository as Being Converted to Git.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=368820
Red Hat Continues Pleading Case for Its CentOS Changes.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Red-Hat-CentOS-Pleading-Cont
Implement Zeek on FreeBSD.
https://blog.socruel.nu/freebsd/implement-zeek-on-freebsd.html
Taking OpenZFS 2.0 Out for Spin.
https://ekultails.github.io/ekultails-jekyll-uno/2020/openzfs-2-test-drive/
SerenityOS Adds Network Menu Applet.
https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/4461
CentOS Killed by IBM – Chance to Go New Ways.
https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2020/12/10/centos-killed-by-ibm-a-chance-to-go-new-ways/
Putting OpenBSD in the Cloud.
https://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2015/06/putting-openbsd-cloud/
Advocacy: Why I Personally Prefer FreeBSD over Linux.
http://sekrit.de/webdocs/freebsd/advocacy.html
Foundation Sponsors FreeBSD LLDB Improvements.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/guest-blog-foundation-sponsors-freebsd-lldb-improvements/
Get Started with tmux(1).
https://sunainapai.in/blog/get-started-with-tmux/
Hardware
RISC-V Ecosystem Highlights in 2020.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/1...ts-in-2020/?hss_channel=tw-722914767636004865
ARM Ampere Altra Shows It Can Compete/Outperform AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ampere-altra-q80
ARM Ampere Altra Review – Dual 80 Cores Server Performance Monster.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16315/the-ampere-altra-review/9
ZimaBoard – $70/$130 Quad Core X86 SBC with Up to 8 GB RAM.
https://blog.jmdawson.co.uk/zimaboard-a-70-single-board-home-server/
Apple Mac Mini and Raspberry Pi Rack Review.
https://www.servethehome.com/myelectronics-nl-apple-mac-mini-and-raspberry-pi-rack-review/
Apple M1 Foreshadows Rise of RISC-V.
https://erik-engheim.medium.com/apple-m1-foreshadows-risc-v-dd63a62b2562
How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops.
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/12/how-and-why-i-stopped-buying-new-laptops.html
Life
Drug Reverses Age Related Mental Decline Within Days.
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/12/419201/drug-reverses-age-related-mental-decline-within-days
Norman Abramson – Father of Wireless Networks – Dies at 88.
https://www.techspot.com/news/87943-norman-abramson-father-wireless-networks-dies-88.html
I Assume I am Below Average.
https://sive.rs/below-average
Lonely People Have Unique Brain Signature.
https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/lone...rhaps-due-to-so-much-imagined-social-contact/
This Column Will Change Your Life: Just Sit Down and Think.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jul/19/change-your-life-sit-down-and-think
Being Kind to Others is Good for Your Health.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201215-why-being-kind-to-others-is-good-for-your-health
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25478869
Other
Firefox 84.0 Released.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/84.0/releasenotes/
Firefox Was Always Enough.
https://www.ianbicking.org/blog/2020/11/firefox-was-always-enough.html
Rust Survey 2020 Results.
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/12/16/rust-survey-2020.html
Why You Can Not Find Search Engine AltaVista on Anymore.
https://tedium.co/2020/12/15/altavista-history-digital-dot-com-domain-name
Reflections on Trusting Trust. [1984]
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf
Quote of the Week
Hard times create strong programmers.
Strong programmers create frameworks.
Frameworks create weak programmers.
Weak programmers create hard times.
Author:
Andreas Kling
@awesomekling
https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1338953882144301057
EOF
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