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/BSD/Linux 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).

The Usual Suspects section at the end is permanent and have links to other sites with interesting UNIX/BSD/Linux news.

Past releases are available at the dedicated NEWS page.

UNIX

2025 EuroBSDCon Trip Report – Leah Budzicka. https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2025-eurobsdcon-trip-report-leah-budzicka/

FreeBSD Git Weekly: 2025-11-17 to 2025-11-23. https://freebsd-git-weekly.tarsnap.net/2025-11-17.html

Why I (Still) Love Linux. https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/24/why-i-still-love-linux/

ZFS Mastery: Bits They Do Not Put in Man Pages. https://youtube.com/watch?v=RLtTcRVrnLE

Best Way to Play YouTube on OpenBSD and FreeBSD (in Terminal). https://youtube.com/watch?v=vPM5NwkATTM

How to Upgrade FreeBSD. https://youtube.com/watch?v=YBrfN69m3Mc

X.Org Server 21.1.21 Released to Fix Several Regressions. https://phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-21.1.21

AVRPascal IDE Runs Natively on FreeBSD. https://reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1p2cbxx/avrpascal_ide_runs_natively_on_freebsd_looking/

FreeBSD on LTO-9 Tape(s) with LTFS. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-and-tape-lto-9.100341/

FreeBSD 15.0-RC4 Now Available. https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-November/003611.html

FreeBSD 15.0-RC4 Released Due to Last Minute Issues. https://phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.0-RC4

Yet Another SysAdmin – Link Collection. https://jhx7.de/blog/link-collection/

Setting Up DokuWiki on FreeBSD. https://jhx7.de/blog/setting-up-dokuwiki-on-freebsd/

Webdev Setup on FreeBSD. https://jhx7.de/blog/webdev-setup-on-freebsd/

Measuring Weight of Electron. [2017] https://deftly.net/posts/2017-06-01-measuring-the-weight-of-an-electron.html

KDE Going All In on Wayland Future. https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/going-all-in-on-a-wayland-future/

Turbo is Alive! https://letsdebug.it/post/28-turbo-editor/

Creating New ZFS Pool for r730-01 Dell R730 Based System. https://dan.langille.org/2025/11/26/creating-a-new-zpool-for-r730-01/

Strengthening FreeBSD Software Supply Chain: Year Two of Alpha-Omega Support. https://alpha-omega.dev/blog/strengthening-freebsds-software-supply-chain-year-two-of-alpha-omega-support/

OPNsense 25.7.8 Released. https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=49869.0

OPNsense 25.7.8 Just Landed – There is Nice Surprise Inside. https://youtu.be/1Jop4u8Gnc4

Fun Chorus FreeBSD Melody by Beginbot. https://suno.com/song/32e90b31-5f17-43a9-87dd-2e5c5af1d08d

Simple Tutorial on How to Make GhostBSD Look Nice. https://reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1p7qkks/a_simple_tutorial_on_how_to_make_ghostbsd_look/

Virtualization with NetBSD and nvmm(8) – Part 1 (NetBSD). https://youtube.com/watch?v=fskhCMEzABw

Installing NetBSD 10.1 (amd64). https://youtube.com/watch?v=0RjuWSUnxug

Installing Software on My NetBSD 10.1 Workstation. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Eh0bcuu1_fw

Jellyfin on FreeBSD Jail. https://journal.bsd.cafe/2025/11/28/jellyfin-on-freebsd/

BSD Now 639: Reproducible Builds. https://www.bsdnow.tv/639

Some Notes on OpenZFS written Dataset Property. https://utcc.utoronto.ca/%7Ecks/space/blog/solaris/ZFSSnapshotWrittenProperty

Self Hosting 10TB in S3 on Framework Laptop with Disks. https://jamesoclaire.com/2025/10/05/self-hosting-10tb-in-s3-on-a-framework-laptop-disks/

Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution. [2015] https://spinellis.gr/pubs/conf/2015-MSR-Unix-History/html/Spi15c.html

Unix Review Interviews Ted Dolotta and Heinz Lycklama from Interactive Systems Corporation. [1984] https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/unix-review-interviews-ted-dolotta

Practical Vim. https://michal.sapka.pl/reviews/non-fictions/practical-vim-drew-neil-2015/

BSD pf(4) versus Linux nftables for Firewalls for Us. https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/PFvsNftablesForUs

Programmer Friendly I/O Abstraction Over Linux io_uring and FreeBSD kqueue. https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2022-11-23-a-friendly-abstraction-over-iouring-and-kqueue/

Wine 10.20 Released with VKD3D 1.18 Upgrade for Direct3D 12. https://phoronix.com/news/Wine-10.20-Released

FreeBSD-15.0-RELEASE Installation with KDE/Wayland/Hyprland. https://youtube.com/watch?v=OPc21yYUeIo

Brightness Control Program for FreeBSD for Thinkpad X220 with AGAN X230 2K Modification Board. https://codeberg.org/evgandr/brightness_x220_agan2k

Top 20 OpenSSH Server Best Security Practices. https://cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-unix-bsd-openssh-server-best-practices.html

MinIO on FreeBSD. https://freebsd.uw.cz/2025/11/minio-on-freebsd.html

FDT – Deduplication Reimagined in OpenZFS. http://storagegaga.com/fdt-deduplication-reimagined-in-openzfs/

Migrating to FreeBSD PkgBase. https://brnrd.eu/freebsd/2025-02-22/migrating-to-freebsd-pkgbase.html

Automating Bootstrap of Alpine Linux in Bhyve VM. [2023] https://brnrd.eu/bhyve/2023-03-08/automating-bootstrap-of-alpine-linux-in-a-bhyve-vm.html

Immutable Alpine Linux in Bhyve. [2023] https://brnrd.eu/bhyve/2023-02-11/immutable-alpine-linux-in-bhyve.html

FreeBSD 2025 Q3 Status Report. https://freebsd.org/status/report-2025-07-2025-09/

Sylve Maturing as FreeBSD Unified Web Management Interface. https://phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-2025-Q3-Highlights

Simple WiFi Utility CLI for FreeBSD. https://github.com/MainKt/wutil

Valuable FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE Updates. https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/valuable-freebsd-15-0-release-updates/

Secure sudo(8) without Password. [2021]. https://brnrd.eu/security/2021-09-19/secure-sudo-without-password.html

Love Letter to FreeBSD. https://www.tara.sh/posts/2025/2025-11-25_freebsd_letter/

SonicDE is KDE/Plasma Fork with X11 Support. https://github.com/Sonic-DE

Hardware

USB Port Colors Explained. https://youtube.com/watch?v=fSN-chBhkrA

DIY NAS: 2026 Edition. https://blog.briancmoses.com/2025/11/diy-nas-2026-edition.html

250MWh Sand Battery to Start Construction in Finland. https://energy-storage.news/250mwh-sand-battery-to-start-construction-in-finland-for-both-heating-and-ancillary-services/

China BEV Trucks and End of Diesel Dominance. https://cleantechnica.com/2025/11/26/chinas-bev-trucks-and-the-end-of-diesels-dominance/

Huawei Tablet/Laptop/Desktop/UFO Something. https://linkedin.com/posts/alvinfsc_are-you-confused-whether-to-a-take-a-tab-ugcPost-7400416089999929344-5krH

Burgeoning World of NVMe. http://storagegaga.com/the-burgeoning-world-of-nvme/

Life

Evidence Suggests Early Developing Human Brains are Preconfigured with Instructions for Understanding World. https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/11/sharf-preconfigured-brain/

How Polish Town of Gliwice Boomed While Darlington its British Twin Fell Behind. https://telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/11/23/how-a-polish-town-boomed-while-its-british-twin-fell-behind/

Why Nature Will Not Allow Use of Generative AI in Images and Video. https://nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01546-4

AdBlock and Signal are for Terrorists According to French Government. https://youtube.com/watch?v=1q1hjmwLqe4

Major AI Conference Flooded with Peer Reviews Written Fully by AI. https://nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03506-6

IT Consultant Arrested in UK After Posing with Gun on LinkedIn. https://telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/28/it-consultant-arrested-after-posing-with-gun-on-linkedin/

Other

Installing iPadOS on iPhone. https://youtube.com/watch?v=smq93ACBBdo

Penpot is Open Source Design Tool for Design and Code Collaboration. https://github.com/penpot/penpot

Games Run Faster on SteamOS than Windows 11. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/06/games-run-faster-on-steamos-than-windows-11-ars-testing-finds/

What is New in Swift 6.2 – FreeBSD Support. https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/245/?time=1403

Usual Suspects

BSD Weekly. https://bsdweekly.com/

DiscoverBSD. https://discoverbsd.com/

BSDSec. https://bsdsec.net/

DragonFly BSD Digest. https://dragonflydigest.com/

FreeBSD Patch Level Table. https://bokut.in/freebsd-patch-level-table/

FreeBSD End of Life Date. https://endoflife.date/freebsd

Phoronix BSD News Archives. https://phoronix.com/linux/BSD

OpenBSD Journal. https://undeadly.org/

Call for Testing. https://callfortesting.org/

Call for Testing – Production Users Call. https://youtube.com/@callfortesting/videos

BSD Now Weekly Podcast. https://www.bsdnow.tv/

Nixers Newsletter. https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php

BSD Cafe Journal. https://journal.bsd.cafe/

DragonFly BSD Digest – Lazy Reading – In Other BSDs. https://dragonflydigest.com

BSDTV. https://bsky.app/profile/bsdtv.bsky.social

FreeBSD Git Weekly. https://freebsd-git-weekly.tarsnap.net/

FreeBSD Meetings. https://youtube.com/@freebsdmeetings

BSDJedi. https://youtube.com/@BSDJedi/videos

RoboNuggie. https://youtube.com/@RoboNuggie/videos

GaryHTech. https://youtube.com/@GaryHTech/videos

Sheridan Computers. https://youtube.com/@sheridans/videos

82MHz. https://82mhz.net/

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