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 and I2C.
https://blog.tyk.nu/blog/freebsd-and-i2c/
Haiku Activity Report – 2021/01.
https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/pulkomandy/2021-02-06-haiku_activity_report_january_2021/
Configuration Files and .d Directories.
https://jmmv.dev/2020/08/config-files-vs-directories.html
Using pkgsrc on OpenBSD.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-02-06-pkgsrc-on-openbsd.html
BastilleBSD Template for Signal TLS Proxy.
https://github.com/ddowse/signal-tls-proxy
GhostBSD 2020 Financial Report.
https://www.ghostbsd.org/2020_financial_report
ReactOS 2021/01 News.
https://reactos.org/blogs/newsletter-100/
Using Custom Boot Logo on Lenovo ThinkPad T460s.
https://www.tumfatig.net/20210209/using-a-custom-boot-logo-on-lenovo-thinkpad-t460s/
Make Better Presentations with LibreOffice Impress Guide 7.0.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org...ter-presentations-with-the-impress-guide-7-0/
The helloSystem Wants to Be macOS of BSDs with Polished Desktop Experience.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=helloSystem-BSD
Random Identity Generation in Linux.
https://www.networkworld.com/article/3606570/random-identity-generation-in-linux.html
Running syslog-ng in Bastille Revisited.
https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/running-syslog-ng-in-bastille-revisited
Time to Retire HAL on FreeBSD.
https://daemondesktop.blogspot.com/2021/02/time-to-retire-hal.html
Bastille Template for Grafana.
https://gitlab.com/bastillebsd-templates/grafana
WINE Begins Landing PPC64 Code to Eventually Help with Windows Programs on POWER.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=WINE-PPC64-Starts-Landing
DragonFly Mirrorselect Selects pkg(8) Mirrors According to Distance.
https://github.com/DragonFlyBSD/mirrorselect
TrueNAS 12.0-U2 Available.
https://www.truenas.com/docs/hub/intro/release-notes/12.0u2/
The helloSystem is FreeBSD Distro Modelled on Mac OS X.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/02/hello-system-freebsd-os
FreeBSD Jails – Deep Dive Into Beginning of FreeBSD Containers.
https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-jails-the-beginning-of-freebsd-containers/
WPA2 Enterprise OpenBSD.
https://m0x.ru/p/wpa2-enterprise.html
FreeBSD 13.0-BETA1 Performance TWO TIMES FASTER then FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=freebsd-13-beta1
Timezone Bullshit.
https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/timezone-bullshit
BSD Now 389 – Comfy FreeBSD Jails.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/389
Why I Built Litestream.
https://litestream.io/blog/why-i-built-litestream/
Kubernetes Failure Stories.
https://k8s.af/
Meet mintBSD – OpenBSD Desktop Configuration.
https://www.mintbsd.com/
OpenBSD Beginner Essentials. [2018]
https://daulton.ca/2018/08/openbsd-essentials/
The helloSystem – Pre Alpha FreeBSD Project Chases Simplicity and Elegance by Taking Cues from macOS.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/12/freebsd_that_looks_like_macos/
SerenityOS – Writing Full Chain Exploit.
https://devcraft.io/2021/02/11/serenityos-writing-a-full-chain-exploit.html
FreeBSD 13.0-BETA2 Now Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2021-February/093081.html
The vmd Application from OpenBSD Adjusted to Work on macOS.
https://github.com/ren-e/vmd
Enable Multi Factor Authentication on OpenBSD.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-02-06-openbsd-2fa.html
In Other BSDs for 2021/02/13.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2021/02/13/25444.html
Install OpenBSD 6.8 on PINE64 ROCK64 Media Board.
https://github.com/krjdev/rock64_openbsd
Running Solaris in VMs.
https://chrispinnock.com/stuff/emulation/running-solaris-in-vms/
OpenBSD Guest with Bhyve on OmniOS.
https://www.pbdigital.org/omniosce/bhyve/openbsd/2020/06/08/bhyve-zones-omnios.html
OpenBSD Journal – Catchup 2021/02/13.
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210213151034
OS Classics – Design and Implementation of 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System.
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2020/07/the-os-classics.html
TrueNAS 12.0-U2 is Released.
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/truenas-12-0-u2-is-released/
Lenovo ThinkCentre M75q-1 Tiny AMD Ryzen Review.
https://www.servethehome.com/lenovo-thinkcentre-m75q-1-tiny-review-project-tinyminimicro/
AMIGA A1100 (A1000 Clone) with 2MB Chip/64MB Fast/Dual Kickstart/68020@14 Mhz/OCS.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP2rrnZsDm8
AMIGA A1100 Project – Give Second Chance to Your Broken A1000.
http://a1100.arananet.net/
AMD Past and Future CPUs.
https://chipsandcheese.com/2021/02/05/amds-past-and-future-cpus/
Cubox-M Aims to Be Raspberry Pi Alternative.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/solidrun-cubox-m
World Smallest Intel Quad Core Tiger Lake – Pico-ITX and M.2 with up to 32GB RAM.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tiger-lake-up3-pico-itx-commell
Which is Best Monitor Panel – IPS vs TN vs VA.
https://www.hardwaretimes.com/ips-vs-tn-vs-va-which-is-the-best-monitor-panel/
AMD ZEN 4 Reportedly Features 29% IPC Boost Over ZEN 3.
https://www.techpowerup.com/278321/amd-zen-4-reportedly-features-a-29-ipc-boost-over-zen-3
Why Work of Stanislaw Lem is More Relevant than Ever.
https://emerging-europe.com/after-hours/why-the-work-of-stanislaw-lem-is-more-relevant-than-ever/
Tape Wizard – Documentary by Kilian Vidourek.
https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2021/02/06/new-documentary-tape-wizard/
Dependency Confusion – How I Hacked Into Apple/Microsoft/Tesla and Dozens of Other Companies.
https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60fec610
Can FBI Hack Into Private Signal Messages on Locked iPhone? Evidence Indicates Yes.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...es-on-a-locked-iphone-evidence-indicates-yes/
Yuzu – Nintendo Switch Emulator – Progress Report 2021/01.
https://yuzu-emu.org/entry/yuzu-progress-report-jan-2021/
Beej Guide to C Programming.
https://beej.us/guide/bgc/html/#cb666-9
Fully Reversed Source Code for GTA III and GTA Vice City.
https://github.com/GTAmodding/re3#building-from-source
Me: sudo mv kubectl /usr/bin/
Mac: Nope
Me: I am root
Mac: So
Kelsey Hightower
@kelseyhightower
View: https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1359271541716905988
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 and I2C.
https://blog.tyk.nu/blog/freebsd-and-i2c/
Haiku Activity Report – 2021/01.
https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/pulkomandy/2021-02-06-haiku_activity_report_january_2021/
Configuration Files and .d Directories.
https://jmmv.dev/2020/08/config-files-vs-directories.html
Using pkgsrc on OpenBSD.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-02-06-pkgsrc-on-openbsd.html
BastilleBSD Template for Signal TLS Proxy.
https://github.com/ddowse/signal-tls-proxy
GhostBSD 2020 Financial Report.
https://www.ghostbsd.org/2020_financial_report
ReactOS 2021/01 News.
https://reactos.org/blogs/newsletter-100/
Using Custom Boot Logo on Lenovo ThinkPad T460s.
https://www.tumfatig.net/20210209/using-a-custom-boot-logo-on-lenovo-thinkpad-t460s/
Make Better Presentations with LibreOffice Impress Guide 7.0.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org...ter-presentations-with-the-impress-guide-7-0/
The helloSystem Wants to Be macOS of BSDs with Polished Desktop Experience.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=helloSystem-BSD
Random Identity Generation in Linux.
https://www.networkworld.com/article/3606570/random-identity-generation-in-linux.html
Running syslog-ng in Bastille Revisited.
https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/running-syslog-ng-in-bastille-revisited
Time to Retire HAL on FreeBSD.
https://daemondesktop.blogspot.com/2021/02/time-to-retire-hal.html
Bastille Template for Grafana.
https://gitlab.com/bastillebsd-templates/grafana
WINE Begins Landing PPC64 Code to Eventually Help with Windows Programs on POWER.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=WINE-PPC64-Starts-Landing
DragonFly Mirrorselect Selects pkg(8) Mirrors According to Distance.
https://github.com/DragonFlyBSD/mirrorselect
TrueNAS 12.0-U2 Available.
https://www.truenas.com/docs/hub/intro/release-notes/12.0u2/
The helloSystem is FreeBSD Distro Modelled on Mac OS X.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/02/hello-system-freebsd-os
FreeBSD Jails – Deep Dive Into Beginning of FreeBSD Containers.
https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-jails-the-beginning-of-freebsd-containers/
WPA2 Enterprise OpenBSD.
https://m0x.ru/p/wpa2-enterprise.html
FreeBSD 13.0-BETA1 Performance TWO TIMES FASTER then FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=freebsd-13-beta1
Timezone Bullshit.
https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/timezone-bullshit
BSD Now 389 – Comfy FreeBSD Jails.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/389
Why I Built Litestream.
https://litestream.io/blog/why-i-built-litestream/
Kubernetes Failure Stories.
https://k8s.af/
Meet mintBSD – OpenBSD Desktop Configuration.
https://www.mintbsd.com/
OpenBSD Beginner Essentials. [2018]
https://daulton.ca/2018/08/openbsd-essentials/
The helloSystem – Pre Alpha FreeBSD Project Chases Simplicity and Elegance by Taking Cues from macOS.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/12/freebsd_that_looks_like_macos/
SerenityOS – Writing Full Chain Exploit.
https://devcraft.io/2021/02/11/serenityos-writing-a-full-chain-exploit.html
FreeBSD 13.0-BETA2 Now Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2021-February/093081.html
The vmd Application from OpenBSD Adjusted to Work on macOS.
https://github.com/ren-e/vmd
Enable Multi Factor Authentication on OpenBSD.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-02-06-openbsd-2fa.html
In Other BSDs for 2021/02/13.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2021/02/13/25444.html
Install OpenBSD 6.8 on PINE64 ROCK64 Media Board.
https://github.com/krjdev/rock64_openbsd
Running Solaris in VMs.
https://chrispinnock.com/stuff/emulation/running-solaris-in-vms/
OpenBSD Guest with Bhyve on OmniOS.
https://www.pbdigital.org/omniosce/bhyve/openbsd/2020/06/08/bhyve-zones-omnios.html
OpenBSD Journal – Catchup 2021/02/13.
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210213151034
OS Classics – Design and Implementation of 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System.
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2020/07/the-os-classics.html
TrueNAS 12.0-U2 is Released.
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/truenas-12-0-u2-is-released/
Hardware
Lenovo ThinkCentre M75q-1 Tiny AMD Ryzen Review.
https://www.servethehome.com/lenovo-thinkcentre-m75q-1-tiny-review-project-tinyminimicro/
AMIGA A1100 (A1000 Clone) with 2MB Chip/64MB Fast/Dual Kickstart/68020@14 Mhz/OCS.
AMIGA A1100 Project – Give Second Chance to Your Broken A1000.
http://a1100.arananet.net/
AMD Past and Future CPUs.
https://chipsandcheese.com/2021/02/05/amds-past-and-future-cpus/
Cubox-M Aims to Be Raspberry Pi Alternative.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/solidrun-cubox-m
World Smallest Intel Quad Core Tiger Lake – Pico-ITX and M.2 with up to 32GB RAM.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tiger-lake-up3-pico-itx-commell
Which is Best Monitor Panel – IPS vs TN vs VA.
https://www.hardwaretimes.com/ips-vs-tn-vs-va-which-is-the-best-monitor-panel/
AMD ZEN 4 Reportedly Features 29% IPC Boost Over ZEN 3.
https://www.techpowerup.com/278321/amd-zen-4-reportedly-features-a-29-ipc-boost-over-zen-3
Life
Why Work of Stanislaw Lem is More Relevant than Ever.
https://emerging-europe.com/after-hours/why-the-work-of-stanislaw-lem-is-more-relevant-than-ever/
Other
Tape Wizard – Documentary by Kilian Vidourek.
https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2021/02/06/new-documentary-tape-wizard/
Dependency Confusion – How I Hacked Into Apple/Microsoft/Tesla and Dozens of Other Companies.
https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60fec610
Can FBI Hack Into Private Signal Messages on Locked iPhone? Evidence Indicates Yes.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...es-on-a-locked-iphone-evidence-indicates-yes/
Yuzu – Nintendo Switch Emulator – Progress Report 2021/01.
https://yuzu-emu.org/entry/yuzu-progress-report-jan-2021/
Beej Guide to C Programming.
https://beej.us/guide/bgc/html/#cb666-9
Fully Reversed Source Code for GTA III and GTA Vice City.
https://github.com/GTAmodding/re3#building-from-source
Quote of the Week
Me: sudo mv kubectl /usr/bin/
Mac: Nope
Me: I am root
Mac: So
Kelsey Hightower
@kelseyhightower
View: https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1359271541716905988
EOF
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