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 OpenZFS User and Developer Summit. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaUVvul17xSeOGarlPaZcqzsVF23PSd6w

BastilleBSD 2025 User Survey. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfC20jlNgngAki7xYGNgKCfJvQ2a0lAqpkJBotXXDVVuAteYQ/viewform

DistroWatch OpenBSD 7.8 Review. https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20251215#openbsd

FreeBSD Git Weekly: 2025-12-08 to 2025-12-14. https://freebsd-git-weekly.tarsnap.net/2025-12-08.html

MidnightBSD 4.0 Brings Many Changes to Its FreeBSD 13 Derived OS. https://phoronix.com/news/MidnightBSD-4.0

MidnightBSD 4.0 Release Notes. https://midnightbsd.org/notes/4.0/index.html

FreeBSD Foundation – 2025 – Year of Advocacy/Community/Growth. https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2025-a-year-of-advocacy-community-and-growth/

Installing Every Window Manager on FreeBSD. https://youtube.com/watch?v=q4PNSeNXEww

Adopting FreeBSD maomao Port. https://evilham.eu/es/blog/2025-FreeBSD-adopting-a-port-maomaowm/

FreeBSD Desktop Installer Preview – Is It Any Good? https://youtube.com/watch?v=rKsdrGr1iBs

OPNsense Mullvad WireGuard Setup. Complete Step-by-Step Guide. https://youtube.com/watch?v=toB_9F-VTVo

12 Days of ZFS: Tips/Tricks/Treats. https://youtube.com/watch?v=TlhRBrp9VDk

NetBSD Most Secure OS Ever. https://drsaracco.wordpress.com/2012/12/31/netbsd-most-secure-os-ever/

How to Install and Configure FreeBSD (2027 Edition). https://youtube.com/watch?v=TmFl7QTvWPs

New pfSense Bug Could Let Hackers In! Do This Now. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vqy6o_tY4Qs

OpenBSD Stories – Scariest Boot Loader Code. http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/boot_hppa.html

FreeBSD Closes Laptop Gap: Year One Project Update. https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-closes-the-laptop-gap-year-one-project-update/

2025 Brought Transformative Changes for FreeBSD on Laptops. https://phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Laptops-2025

I Have Used Linux for Decades but I Would Switch to FreeBSD for This One Feature. https://zdnet.com/article/freebsd-will-challenge-your-skills-and-make-you-learn-along-the-way/

OPNsense 25.7.10 Released and Fixes Critical FreeBSD Flaw. https://youtube.com/watch?v=zM2L-3QhXBk

2025 FreeBSD Foundation Budget Summary. https://freebsdfoundation.org/about-us/about-the-foundation/financials/2025-freebsd-foundation-budget-summary/

Attempt to Read UNIX V4 Tape is Underway! https://mastodon.social/@ricci@discuss.systems/115747843746305391

UNIX V4 Tape from University of Utah. https://archive.org/details/utah_unix_v4_raw

BSD Now 642: Look Harder https://www.bsdnow.tv/642

Why I Am Retiring from Contributing to FreeBSD. https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=mc43n25k9eij03dc5eur8mrc3a&topic=50102.0

ZFS Status on NetBSD. https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2025/12/19/msg033689.html

Indiana Jones and Great Circle – FreeBSD Wine Gaming. https://youtube.com/watch?v=zX38PoitmAQ

DragonFlyBSD VirtIO Block Driver Lands Multi Queue Support. https://phoronix.com/news/DragonFly-VirtIO-Block-MQ

OpenZFS 2.4 Extends Linux Kernel Support to 6.18 and Supports FreeBSD 14–16. https://linuxiac.com/openzfs-2-4-extends-linux-kernel-support-to-6-18-and-supports-freebsd-14-16/

XLibre XServer 25.1 Changes. https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/wiki/XLibre-XServer-25.1-Changes

Firefox in BastilleBSD FreeBSD Jail (jailfox-install) Working Guide. https://github.com/krolingo/Firefox_Jail_GhostBSD-FreeBSD-

Hardware

Samsung to Halt SATA SSD Production Leaker Warns of Up to 18 Months of SSD Price Pressure Worse than Micron Ending Consumer RAM. https://notebookcheck.net/Samsung-to-halt-SATA-SSD-production-leaker-warns-of-up-to-18-months-of-SSD-price-pressure-worse-than-Micron-ending-consumer-RAM.1184896.0.html

Pimped AMIGA 600 from Bad Condition to Fully Working OS 3.2 with 68030 CPU. https://www.pimyretro.org/pimped-amiga-600/

Restoring and Customizing AMIGA 500 – Workbench 1.3/Tools/Enhancements. https://pimyretro.org/pimped-amiga-500/

EU is Officially Dropping Its 2035 Combustion Engine Ban. https://motor1.com/news/782012/eu-dropping-combustion-engine-ban-2035/

Intel Xeon 6980P vs. AMD EPYC 9755 128-Core Showdown. https://phoronix.com/review/xeon-6980p-epyc-9755-2025/

New in Collection – Part 1 – Keyport 717. https://newsletter.shifthappens.site/archive/new-in-the-collection-pt-1-keyport-717/

Life

Texas Attorney General Sues Sony/Samsung/LG/Hisense/TCL for Spying with Screenshots. https://texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-paxton-sues-five-major-tv-companies-including-some-ties-ccp-spying-texans

Boys (Do Not) Lag Behind: How Teachers Gender Biases Affect Student Achievement. https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272775718307714

Most Raw Conversation I Have Ever Had: Revisited. https://youtube.com/watch?v=dKmuCBFPY3g

Beginning New Chapter When You Think You Are Too Old. https://youtube.com/watch?v=6BIsbegPxwg

Surveillance: Proton Relocates Parts of Its Infrastructure from Switzerland. https://heise.de/en/news/Surveillance-Proton-relocates-parts-of-its-infrastructure-from-Switzerland-10538664.html

Other

Software Can Be Finished. https://rosswintle.uk/2025/10/software-can-be-finished/

2025 Worst Person in Tech. https://twsu.forms.app/worst-person-tech-2025-round-one

Servo 0.0.3 Browser Engine Brings Better Performance and Embedding Improvements. https://phoronix.com/news/Servo-0.0.3-Released

ZLUDA For CUDA on Non NVIDIA GPUs Enables AMD ROCm 7 Support. https://phoronix.com/news/ZLUDA-ROCm-7

Cloudflare Error Page Generator. https://github.com/donlon/cloudflare-error-page

No AI Here – Response to Mozilla Next Chapter from Waterfox. https://waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-here-response-to-mozilla/

Thunderbird Expanding Microsoft Exchange and Protocol Support for 2026. https://phoronix.com/news/Thunderbird-2026-Plans

Honest Hacker News. https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/news-honest.html

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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