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).
Build Your Own SPARC Workstation with QEMU and Solaris.
https://learn.adafruit.com/build-your-own-sparc-with-qemu-and-solaris?view=all
SerenityOS 2021/05 Update with 1700 Commits from 93 Authors – Most Intense Month.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3MtPgTUOC8
All dmesg(8) Reports from bsd-hardware.info Site.
https://github.com/bsdhw/Dmesg
XigmaNAS 12.2.0.4.8458 Released.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xigmanas/files/XigmaNAS-12.2.0.4/12.2.0.4.8458/
New Contribution Policy for runj for FreeBSD Jails Containers.
https://samuel.karp.dev/blog/2021/05/a-new-contribution-policy-for-runj/
GNU BRE/ERE Cheatsheet – Differences Between grep(1)/sed(1)/awk(1).
https://learnbyexample.github.io/gnu-bre-ere-cheatsheet/
PolarDB for PostgreSQL.
https://github.com/alibaba/PolarDB-for-PostgreSQL
FreeBSD Poudriere Guide.
https://danschmid.de/en/blog/poudriere-guide
FreeBSD 13 on Panasonic Lets Note CF-RZ6.
https://rubenerd.com/freebsd-13-on-the-panasonic-cf-rz6/
NetBSD on Vortex86DX CPU.
https://www.cambus.net/netbsd-on-the-vortex86dx-cpu/
BSD Now 405 – OOM Killer Feature.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/405
GearBSD – Project to Help Automating Your OpenBSD.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-06-01-gearbsd.html
Phoronix Turns 17 Years Old – Covering Linux Hardware Scene Daily.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Phoronix-17th-Birthday
In Other BSDs for 2021/06/05.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2021/06/05/25808.html
Jitsi on OpenBSD.
http://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/talk/2021-June/018331.html
Gaming on NomadBSD (Based on FreeBSD 13).
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d-TmBhHu_U
NetBSD 9.2 New Default Package DB Location.
https://rubenerd.com/netbsds-9-2-new-default-db-location/
NetBSD News – aiomixer – X/Open Curses – ncurses.
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/aiomixer_x_open_curses_and
FreeBSD Fridays – Introduction to BastilleBSD.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7BKKMMEBiM
Program for EuroBSDCon 2021 Has Been Published.
https://2021.eurobsdcon.org/about/program/
My Top 5 FreeBSD Console Tools – Lets Compare Tools.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy3jw6g_vds
Beautiful HardenedBSD Bootloader Work by HacKurx.
View: https://twitter.com/lattera/status/1401623864933748741
Custom Beyerdynamics MMX 300 with OpenBSD Logo.
https://honk.codevoid.de/u/sh/h/3FhyHyZ22R8C2DtmB8
Upgrading FreeBSD Jail 12.2 to 13.0 Using mkjail.
https://dan.langille.org/2021/05/31/upgrading-a-freebsd-12-2-jail-to-freebsd-13-using-mkjail/
FreeBSD from NetBSD User Perspective.
https://washbear.neocities.org/freebsd-netbsd-user.html
Commodore AMIGA Powered Your Cable System in 90s.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-the-commodore-amiga-powered-your-cable-system-in-the-90s
Typical Intel Marketing Bullshit – Compares 15W AMD CPU with 28W Intel CPU.
https://www.hardwaretimes.com/intel...-w-28w-tiger-lake-u-refresh-at-computex-2021/
LIVA Q3 Plus is Pocket Sized AMD Ryzen Embedded Mini PC.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/06/01/liva-q3-plus-pocket-sized-amd-ryzen-embedded-mini-pc/
AMD Ryzen 5000G – ZEN 3 APUs for Desktop Coming in 2021/08/05.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16720/amd-ryzen-5000g-zen-3-apus-for-desktop-coming-august-5th
AMD Demonstrates Stacked 3D V-Cache Technology – 192 MB L3 Cache at 2 TB/s.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/1672...acked-vcache-technology-2-tbsec-for-15-gaming
Apple M1 Compiles Linux 30% Faster than Intel i9.
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/apple-m1-compiles-linux-30-faster-my-intel-i9
Linux 5.5 DRM Update for FreeBSD Almost Complete.
https://twitter.com/_neelc/status/1399965397839867905
AMD Ryzen 5000U Mini PCs Coming Soon from ASRock and Gigabyte.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/06/02/amd-ryzen-5000u-mini-pcs-asrock-gigabyte/
AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 Mini-ITX Motherboard Offers 4 DP++ Video Ports.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/0...trial-motherboard-offers-four-dp-video-ports/
Are We Seeing Takeover from RISC-V?
https://www.electropages.com/blog/2021/05/are-we-seeing-takeover-risc-v
Low Cost Mini PC with AMD 3020e APU or R1305 Embedded Processor.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/0...amd-3020e-apu-ryzen-r1305-embedded-processor/
Laptop Review – ThinkPad X1 Extreme (Gen 2).
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2021-06-05-laptop-review-lenovo-thinkpad-x1-extreme-gen2/
We Interrupt This Program – Intel/AMD Contemplate Different Replacements for x86 Interrupt Handling.
https://www.eejournal.com/article/we-interrupt-this-program/
RISC vs. CISC is Wrong Lens for Comparing Modern x86/ARM CPUs.
https://www.extremetech.com/computi...the-wrong-lens-to-compare-modern-x86-arm-cpus
Google Employees Admit in Lawsuit that Company Made it Impossible for Users to Keep Location Private.
https://www.osnews.com/story/133500...ble-for-users-to-keep-their-location-private/
Firefox 89.0 Release Notes.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/89.0/releasenotes/
Modern and Clean Firefox Clears Way to All You Need Online.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla...irefox-clears-the-way-to-all-you-need-online/
Olympus 2207 – Total Conversion of Fallout 2 with Completely New Graphics.
https://olympus2207.com/en/o1-en/
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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
Build Your Own SPARC Workstation with QEMU and Solaris.
https://learn.adafruit.com/build-your-own-sparc-with-qemu-and-solaris?view=all
SerenityOS 2021/05 Update with 1700 Commits from 93 Authors – Most Intense Month.
All dmesg(8) Reports from bsd-hardware.info Site.
https://github.com/bsdhw/Dmesg
XigmaNAS 12.2.0.4.8458 Released.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xigmanas/files/XigmaNAS-12.2.0.4/12.2.0.4.8458/
New Contribution Policy for runj for FreeBSD Jails Containers.
https://samuel.karp.dev/blog/2021/05/a-new-contribution-policy-for-runj/
GNU BRE/ERE Cheatsheet – Differences Between grep(1)/sed(1)/awk(1).
https://learnbyexample.github.io/gnu-bre-ere-cheatsheet/
PolarDB for PostgreSQL.
https://github.com/alibaba/PolarDB-for-PostgreSQL
FreeBSD Poudriere Guide.
https://danschmid.de/en/blog/poudriere-guide
FreeBSD 13 on Panasonic Lets Note CF-RZ6.
https://rubenerd.com/freebsd-13-on-the-panasonic-cf-rz6/
NetBSD on Vortex86DX CPU.
https://www.cambus.net/netbsd-on-the-vortex86dx-cpu/
BSD Now 405 – OOM Killer Feature.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/405
GearBSD – Project to Help Automating Your OpenBSD.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-06-01-gearbsd.html
Phoronix Turns 17 Years Old – Covering Linux Hardware Scene Daily.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Phoronix-17th-Birthday
In Other BSDs for 2021/06/05.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2021/06/05/25808.html
Jitsi on OpenBSD.
http://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/talk/2021-June/018331.html
Gaming on NomadBSD (Based on FreeBSD 13).
NetBSD 9.2 New Default Package DB Location.
https://rubenerd.com/netbsds-9-2-new-default-db-location/
NetBSD News – aiomixer – X/Open Curses – ncurses.
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/aiomixer_x_open_curses_and
FreeBSD Fridays – Introduction to BastilleBSD.
Program for EuroBSDCon 2021 Has Been Published.
https://2021.eurobsdcon.org/about/program/
My Top 5 FreeBSD Console Tools – Lets Compare Tools.
Beautiful HardenedBSD Bootloader Work by HacKurx.
View: https://twitter.com/lattera/status/1401623864933748741
Custom Beyerdynamics MMX 300 with OpenBSD Logo.
https://honk.codevoid.de/u/sh/h/3FhyHyZ22R8C2DtmB8
Upgrading FreeBSD Jail 12.2 to 13.0 Using mkjail.
https://dan.langille.org/2021/05/31/upgrading-a-freebsd-12-2-jail-to-freebsd-13-using-mkjail/
FreeBSD from NetBSD User Perspective.
https://washbear.neocities.org/freebsd-netbsd-user.html
Hardware
Commodore AMIGA Powered Your Cable System in 90s.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-the-commodore-amiga-powered-your-cable-system-in-the-90s
Typical Intel Marketing Bullshit – Compares 15W AMD CPU with 28W Intel CPU.
https://www.hardwaretimes.com/intel...-w-28w-tiger-lake-u-refresh-at-computex-2021/
LIVA Q3 Plus is Pocket Sized AMD Ryzen Embedded Mini PC.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/06/01/liva-q3-plus-pocket-sized-amd-ryzen-embedded-mini-pc/
AMD Ryzen 5000G – ZEN 3 APUs for Desktop Coming in 2021/08/05.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16720/amd-ryzen-5000g-zen-3-apus-for-desktop-coming-august-5th
AMD Demonstrates Stacked 3D V-Cache Technology – 192 MB L3 Cache at 2 TB/s.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/1672...acked-vcache-technology-2-tbsec-for-15-gaming
Apple M1 Compiles Linux 30% Faster than Intel i9.
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/apple-m1-compiles-linux-30-faster-my-intel-i9
Linux 5.5 DRM Update for FreeBSD Almost Complete.
https://twitter.com/_neelc/status/1399965397839867905
AMD Ryzen 5000U Mini PCs Coming Soon from ASRock and Gigabyte.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/06/02/amd-ryzen-5000u-mini-pcs-asrock-gigabyte/
AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 Mini-ITX Motherboard Offers 4 DP++ Video Ports.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/0...trial-motherboard-offers-four-dp-video-ports/
Are We Seeing Takeover from RISC-V?
https://www.electropages.com/blog/2021/05/are-we-seeing-takeover-risc-v
Low Cost Mini PC with AMD 3020e APU or R1305 Embedded Processor.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/0...amd-3020e-apu-ryzen-r1305-embedded-processor/
Laptop Review – ThinkPad X1 Extreme (Gen 2).
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2021-06-05-laptop-review-lenovo-thinkpad-x1-extreme-gen2/
We Interrupt This Program – Intel/AMD Contemplate Different Replacements for x86 Interrupt Handling.
https://www.eejournal.com/article/we-interrupt-this-program/
RISC vs. CISC is Wrong Lens for Comparing Modern x86/ARM CPUs.
https://www.extremetech.com/computi...the-wrong-lens-to-compare-modern-x86-arm-cpus
Life
Google Employees Admit in Lawsuit that Company Made it Impossible for Users to Keep Location Private.
https://www.osnews.com/story/133500...ble-for-users-to-keep-their-location-private/
Other
Firefox 89.0 Release Notes.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/89.0/releasenotes/
Modern and Clean Firefox Clears Way to All You Need Online.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla...irefox-clears-the-way-to-all-you-need-online/
Olympus 2207 – Total Conversion of Fallout 2 with Completely New Graphics.
https://olympus2207.com/en/o1-en/
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