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

FreeBSD vs Linux – Which is Better. https://netdata.cloud/academy/freebsd-vs-linux/

Infrastructure Modernization – Commissioned by Sovereign Tech Agency. https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/infrastructure-modernization-commissioned-by-the-sovereign-tech-agency/

OpenBSD Stories – When Driver Challenges Kernel Assumptions. http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/udl.html

FreeBSD Git Weekly: 2025-12-22 to 2025-12-28. https://freebsd-git-weekly.tarsnap.net/2025-12-22.html

Set It and Forget It – Monit on FreeBSD in Minutes. https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZkM228fbykU

39C3 – Escaping Containment – Security Analysis of FreeBSD Jails. https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-escaping-containment-a-security-analysis-of-freebsd-jails

HardenedBSD 2025/12 Status Report. https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2025-12-28/hardenedbsd-december-2025-status-report

OpenBSD fw_update(8) Now Checks dmesg(8) Output in Addition to dmesg.boot File. https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251230094932

FreeBSD 15.0 – Composable by Design. https://youtube.com/watch?v=gvJc5qHVLzg

Thank You for Amazing Year – Happy New Year from Gary. https://youtube.com/watch?v=KZgZaBxrAG0

Updates to pf(4) Packet Filter in FreeBSD and pfSense Software. https://netgate.com/blog/updates-to-the-pf-packet-filter-in-freebsd-and-pfsense-software

FreeBSD Driver for ws2812 RGP LED String. http://ketas.si.pri.ee/misc/ws2812/ws2812.html

FreeBSD Net Autotuner – Dynamically Adjust TCP Stack/Congestion Control Algorithm/Buffers/Queues. https://github.com/geobarrod/FBSD-Net-Autotuner

Send Your HDD and Get ZFS VPS on It. https://zfs.rent/

Managing FreeBSD Jails with Ansible with jailexec Connection Plugin. https://blog.hofstede.it/managing-freebsd-jails-with-ansible-the-jailexec-connection-plugin/

Devuan 6.1 Released Init Freedom without systemd. https://phoronix.com/news/Devuan-6.1-Released

IceWM 4.0 Improves [ALT]-[TAB] Window Switcher/Alpha Blending/32bit RGBA Default. https://phoronix.com/news/IceWM-4.0-Released

Sentinel Immune – Biological Immunity for IT Security on DragonflyBSD. https://dev.to/dmitry_labintcev_9e611e04/sentinel-immune-biological-immunity-for-it-security-279f https://github.com/DmitrL-dev/AISecurity

Samba Jail Made with FreeBSD AppJail. https://github.com/ab-ten/smbjail

WebZFS is Modern Web Based Management Interface for ZFS Pools/Datasets/Snapshots/S.M.A.R.T Monitoring. https://github.com/webzfs/webzfs

AMIGA Desktops Worth Seeing. https://datagubbe.se/wbshots/

AMIGA 3000 UNIX and Sun Microsystems. https://datagubbe.se/amix/

FreeBSD Runs Perfectly on 16 Years Old Laptop. https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/48417779

FreeBSD Upgrade to 15. https://euroquis.nl/freebsd/2026/01/02/freebsd.html

FreeBSD 14 to 15 Upgrade (Intel). https://euroquis.nl/freebsd/2026/01/03/freebsd.html

BSD Weekly – Issue 260. https://bsdweekly.com/issues/260

BSD Now 644 – Holidays 2025 – What You Neen Doin? https://www.bsdnow.tv/644

On Building Ansible Training Environment on FreeBSD. [2019] https://jpmens.net/2019/12/11/on-building-an-ansible-training-environment-on-freebsd/

Fixing Buffer Overflow in UNIX V4 Like It is 1973. https://sigma-star.at/blog/2025/12/unix-v4-buffer-overflow/

How to Install FreeBSD 15.0. https://youtube.com/watch?v=JSTFpe70tOo

Can I Finally Start Using Wayland in 2026? https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-01-04-wayland-sway-in-2026/

GhostBSD – Step by Step Install. https://youtube.com/watch?v=gjw2OykX5_o

Hardware

New in Collection – Part 5 – New Hermes NHI 810. https://newsletter.shifthappens.site/archive/new-in-the-collection-pt-5-new-hermes-nhi-810/

Cameras and Lenses – Bartosz Ciechanowski. https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/

Samsung SDI Batteries with 600 Mile Range That Charge in 9 Minutes Ready for Production. https://goodnewsnetwork.org/samsungs-600-mile-range-batteries-that-charge-in-9-minutes-ready-for-production-sale-next-year/

Why One Man is Fighting for Our Right to Control Our Garage Door Openers. https://nytimes.com/2025/12/04/technology/personaltech/why-one-man-is-fighting-for-our-right-to-control-our-garage-door-openers.html

2026 Dodge Durango Drops V6 and Goes V8 Only Across Entire Lineup. https://caranddriver.com/news/a65656950/2026-dodge-durango-v8-engine-only/

Life

Between Then and Now. https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/12/29/between-then-and-now/

2025 State of Men UK Report. https://beyondequality.org/blog-posts/state-of-men-uk-report

Other

FFmpeg Developer Files DMCA Against Rockchip After 2 Year Wait for License Fix. https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/12/26/193244/ffmpeg-developer-files-dmca-against-rockchip-after-two-year-wait-for-license-fix

Web Browsers Have Stopped Blocking Pop Ups. https://smokingonabike.com/2025/12/31/web-browsers-have-stopped-blocking-pop-ups/

I Tried Servo – Undercover Web Browser Engine Made with Rust. https://spacebar.news/servo-undercover-web-browser-engine/

GOG is Getting Acquired by Its Original Cofounder. https://gog.com/blog/gog-is-getting-acquired-by-its-original-co-founder-what-it-means-for-you/

Heroes ]I[ – Horn of the Abyss – New Bulwark City. https://youtube.com/watch?v=lfbJF3YHRgo

Windows XP/Vista/7/8.1/10/11 Speed Test. https://youtube.com/watch?v=7VZJO-hOT4c&t=862s

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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