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).
Wireguard Bounces Off FreeBSD – For Now.
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/850098/3daef578513bff15/
Expanding FreeBSD Root Filesystem (UFS).
https://fluca1978.github.io/2021/02/11/FreeBSDExpandingRootFilesystem.html
OpenZFS 2.1-rc1 Released with dRAID.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenZFS-2.1-rc1-Released
FreeBSD Reworks sh(1) to Autocomplete Commands.
https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=b315a729
Observations About FreeBSD/AIO.
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/FreeBSD/AIO
Compiling MariaDB from Source on FreeBSD.
https://dev.to/darkain/compiling-mariadb-from-source-on-freebsd-5ank
FreeBSD 13.0-RC4 Now Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2021-March/093374.html
FreeBSD at Google Summer of Code.
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/4733549204209664/
The pkgsrc 2021Q1 Branch Announced.
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2021/03/29/msg033502.html
New XigmaNAS 11.4.0.4.8282 Available.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xigmanas/files/XigmaNAS-11.4.0.4/11.4.0.4.8282/
FreeBSD 13.0-RC4 Released with POWER Fixes and Other Bugs Addressed.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-13.0-RC4-Released
NetBSD GSoC Reports: Make system(3)/popen(3)/popenve(3) Use posix_spawn(3).
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc_reports_make_system_31
Bootstrap OPNsense Plugin Development Environment in Vagrant.
https://github.com/punktDe/vagrant-opnsense
TrueNAS Core Active Directory Integration in 10 Minutes.
https://sheridancomputers.co.uk/blo...re-active-directory-integration-in-10-minutes
BSD Weekly – Issue 62.
https://bsdweekly.com/issues/62
GSoC Reports – Benchmarking NetBSD – 3rd Evaluation Report.
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc_reports_benchmarking_netbsd_third
Open Source Licenses in 2021 – Trends and Predictions.
https://resources.whitesourcesoftwa...e/open-source-licenses-trends-and-predictions
HardenedBSD 2021/03 Status Report.
https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2021-03-31/hardenedbsd-march-2021-status-report
BSD Now 396 – License to Thrill.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/396
Manjaro Migrates to FreeBSD as New Base. [April Fool Joke]
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTTVNO56LNE
Xinuos Sues IBM and Red Hat for Antitrust Violations and Copyright Infringement.
https://www.xinuos.com/xinuos-sues-ibm-and-red-hat/
Colorized Output for FreeBSD CLI Programs.
https://gist.github.com/Linux-BSD/e84e309ee4a4966bc81d97a5b75eb282
Thunar from XFCE Gets Safely Remove Drive Option.
View: https://twitter.com/XfceNation/status/1377531183697952769
https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/153
FreeBSD Utility ufsbe(8) to Manage Boot Environments on UFS Filesystems.
https://github.com/vermaden/ufsbe
April Fool Pranks in Sun Microsystems Over the Years.
https://tech.gaeatimes.com/index.php/archive/april-fool-pranks-in-sun-microsystems-over-the-years/
OpenBSD Adds Coordinated Mars Time (MTC) – Mars Equivalent of Earth Universal Time (UTC).
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=161730046519995&w=2
The tmux Lets You Select/Copy Text with Keyboard.
https://ianthehenry.com/posts/tmux-psa/
Turing Award Goes to Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho (Man from A in awk(1) Name).
https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/01/turing_award/
Release Notes for OmniOS v11 r151036.
https://github.com/omniosorg/omnios-build/blob/r151036/doc/ReleaseNotes.md
Upgrading GhostBSD to 13-STABLE.
https://forums.ghostbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=1921
In Other BSDs for 2021/04/03.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2021/04/03/25604.html
FreeBSD Heads Up – mergemaster(8) Deprecated – Use etcupdate(8) Instead.
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/heads-up-deprecation-of-mergemaster.79641/
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=252417
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=252132
Hikari 2.2.3 Wayland Compositor 2.2.3 for FreeBSD and Linux is Released.
https://hikari.acmelabs.space/
FreeBSD 13.0-RC5 Now Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2021-April/093429.html
FreeBSD 13.0-RC5 Released Due to Lingering Bugs.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-13.0-RC5
XigmaNAS 12.2.0.4.8291 Available.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xigmanas/files/XigmaNAS-12.2.0.4/12.2.0.4.8291/
Installing Tribblix in Bhyve on Tribblix.
https://ptribble.blogspot.com/2021/04/installing-tribblix-in-bhyve-on-tribblix.html
I got GNU Modula-2 Compiler Working on OpenBSD.
https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210403.html
ARMv9 Introduced at ARM Vision Day 2021.
https://www.servethehome.com/armv9-introduced-at-arm-vision-day-2021/
Akasa Maze Themed Raspberry Pi 4 Case.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/akasa-raspberry-pi-4-akasa-maze-pro
AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 COM Express Module Supports up to 1TB NVMe SSD and 64GB DDR4.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/0...module-supports-up-to-1tb-nvme-ssd-64gb-ddr4/
AMD EPYC 7763 Review.
https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-7763-review-top-for-this-generation/
MINISFORUM DeskMini HM50 with AMD Ryzen 5 4500U and Triple 4K Display and 2.5GbE Ethernet.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/0...i-pc-offers-triple-4k-display-support-2-5gbe/
Best Way to Learn – Build Full Home Laboratory.
https://cybernews.com/editorial/best-way-to-learn-building-a-full-home-laboratory-of-course/
China First 7nm GPU Nears Mass Production.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/china-first-7nm-gpu-heads-to-production
Google Collects 20 Times More Telemetry from Android than Apple from iOS.
https://therecord.media/google-coll...try-from-android-devices-than-apple-from-ios/
Splinternet: End of Internet as We Know It.
https://cybernews.com/editorial/the-splinternet-the-end-of-the-internet-as-we-know-it/
Astonishing Math Knowledge of Honeybees.
https://medium.com/however-mathematics/the-astonishing-math-knowledge-of-honeybees-d17c95491c66
Is Canada Most Expensive Wireless Market in World?
http://research.rewheel.fi/downloads/Canada_most_expensive_wireless_market_world_PUBLIC_VERSION.pdf
Font Size is Useless – Let’s Fix It.
https://tonsky.me/blog/font-size/
QRSAY – CLI QR Code Generator for MS-DOS.
https://github.com/gonzoua/DOS
Terms of Service – Did Not Read.
https://tosdr.org/en/frontpage
EOF
Continue reading...
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
Wireguard Bounces Off FreeBSD – For Now.
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/850098/3daef578513bff15/
Expanding FreeBSD Root Filesystem (UFS).
https://fluca1978.github.io/2021/02/11/FreeBSDExpandingRootFilesystem.html
OpenZFS 2.1-rc1 Released with dRAID.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenZFS-2.1-rc1-Released
FreeBSD Reworks sh(1) to Autocomplete Commands.
https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=b315a729
Observations About FreeBSD/AIO.
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/FreeBSD/AIO
Compiling MariaDB from Source on FreeBSD.
https://dev.to/darkain/compiling-mariadb-from-source-on-freebsd-5ank
FreeBSD 13.0-RC4 Now Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2021-March/093374.html
FreeBSD at Google Summer of Code.
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/4733549204209664/
The pkgsrc 2021Q1 Branch Announced.
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2021/03/29/msg033502.html
New XigmaNAS 11.4.0.4.8282 Available.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xigmanas/files/XigmaNAS-11.4.0.4/11.4.0.4.8282/
FreeBSD 13.0-RC4 Released with POWER Fixes and Other Bugs Addressed.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-13.0-RC4-Released
NetBSD GSoC Reports: Make system(3)/popen(3)/popenve(3) Use posix_spawn(3).
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc_reports_make_system_31
Bootstrap OPNsense Plugin Development Environment in Vagrant.
https://github.com/punktDe/vagrant-opnsense
TrueNAS Core Active Directory Integration in 10 Minutes.
https://sheridancomputers.co.uk/blo...re-active-directory-integration-in-10-minutes
BSD Weekly – Issue 62.
https://bsdweekly.com/issues/62
GSoC Reports – Benchmarking NetBSD – 3rd Evaluation Report.
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc_reports_benchmarking_netbsd_third
Open Source Licenses in 2021 – Trends and Predictions.
https://resources.whitesourcesoftwa...e/open-source-licenses-trends-and-predictions
HardenedBSD 2021/03 Status Report.
https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2021-03-31/hardenedbsd-march-2021-status-report
BSD Now 396 – License to Thrill.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/396
Manjaro Migrates to FreeBSD as New Base. [April Fool Joke]
Xinuos Sues IBM and Red Hat for Antitrust Violations and Copyright Infringement.
https://www.xinuos.com/xinuos-sues-ibm-and-red-hat/
Colorized Output for FreeBSD CLI Programs.
https://gist.github.com/Linux-BSD/e84e309ee4a4966bc81d97a5b75eb282
Thunar from XFCE Gets Safely Remove Drive Option.
View: https://twitter.com/XfceNation/status/1377531183697952769
https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/153
FreeBSD Utility ufsbe(8) to Manage Boot Environments on UFS Filesystems.
https://github.com/vermaden/ufsbe
April Fool Pranks in Sun Microsystems Over the Years.
https://tech.gaeatimes.com/index.php/archive/april-fool-pranks-in-sun-microsystems-over-the-years/
OpenBSD Adds Coordinated Mars Time (MTC) – Mars Equivalent of Earth Universal Time (UTC).
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=161730046519995&w=2
The tmux Lets You Select/Copy Text with Keyboard.
https://ianthehenry.com/posts/tmux-psa/
Turing Award Goes to Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho (Man from A in awk(1) Name).
https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/01/turing_award/
Release Notes for OmniOS v11 r151036.
https://github.com/omniosorg/omnios-build/blob/r151036/doc/ReleaseNotes.md
Upgrading GhostBSD to 13-STABLE.
https://forums.ghostbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=1921
In Other BSDs for 2021/04/03.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2021/04/03/25604.html
FreeBSD Heads Up – mergemaster(8) Deprecated – Use etcupdate(8) Instead.
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/heads-up-deprecation-of-mergemaster.79641/
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=252417
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=252132
Hikari 2.2.3 Wayland Compositor 2.2.3 for FreeBSD and Linux is Released.
https://hikari.acmelabs.space/
FreeBSD 13.0-RC5 Now Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2021-April/093429.html
FreeBSD 13.0-RC5 Released Due to Lingering Bugs.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-13.0-RC5
XigmaNAS 12.2.0.4.8291 Available.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xigmanas/files/XigmaNAS-12.2.0.4/12.2.0.4.8291/
Installing Tribblix in Bhyve on Tribblix.
https://ptribble.blogspot.com/2021/04/installing-tribblix-in-bhyve-on-tribblix.html
I got GNU Modula-2 Compiler Working on OpenBSD.
https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210403.html
Hardware
ARMv9 Introduced at ARM Vision Day 2021.
https://www.servethehome.com/armv9-introduced-at-arm-vision-day-2021/
Akasa Maze Themed Raspberry Pi 4 Case.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/akasa-raspberry-pi-4-akasa-maze-pro
AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 COM Express Module Supports up to 1TB NVMe SSD and 64GB DDR4.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/0...module-supports-up-to-1tb-nvme-ssd-64gb-ddr4/
AMD EPYC 7763 Review.
https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-7763-review-top-for-this-generation/
MINISFORUM DeskMini HM50 with AMD Ryzen 5 4500U and Triple 4K Display and 2.5GbE Ethernet.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/0...i-pc-offers-triple-4k-display-support-2-5gbe/
Best Way to Learn – Build Full Home Laboratory.
https://cybernews.com/editorial/best-way-to-learn-building-a-full-home-laboratory-of-course/
China First 7nm GPU Nears Mass Production.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/china-first-7nm-gpu-heads-to-production
Life
Google Collects 20 Times More Telemetry from Android than Apple from iOS.
https://therecord.media/google-coll...try-from-android-devices-than-apple-from-ios/
Splinternet: End of Internet as We Know It.
https://cybernews.com/editorial/the-splinternet-the-end-of-the-internet-as-we-know-it/
Astonishing Math Knowledge of Honeybees.
https://medium.com/however-mathematics/the-astonishing-math-knowledge-of-honeybees-d17c95491c66
Other
Is Canada Most Expensive Wireless Market in World?
http://research.rewheel.fi/downloads/Canada_most_expensive_wireless_market_world_PUBLIC_VERSION.pdf
Font Size is Useless – Let’s Fix It.
https://tonsky.me/blog/font-size/
QRSAY – CLI QR Code Generator for MS-DOS.
https://github.com/gonzoua/DOS
Terms of Service – Did Not Read.
https://tosdr.org/en/frontpage
EOF
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