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 βbulkβ 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
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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 βbulkβ 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 β Which is Better. https://netdata.cloud/academy/freebsd-vs-linux/
Infrastructure Modernization β Commissioned by Sovereign Tech Agency. https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/infrastructure-modernization-commissioned-by-the-sovereign-tech-agency/
OpenBSD Stories β 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 β Monit on FreeBSD in Minutes. https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZkM228fbykU
39C3 β Escaping Containment β 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 β Composable by Design. https://youtube.com/watch?v=gvJc5qHVLzg
Thank You for Amazing Year β 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 β 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 β 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 β Issue 260. https://bsdweekly.com/issues/260
BSD Now 644 β Holidays 2025 β 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 β Step by Step Install. https://youtube.com/watch?v=gjw2OykX5_o
Hardware
New in Collection β Part 5 β New Hermes NHI 810. https://newsletter.shifthappens.site/archive/new-in-the-collection-pt-5-new-hermes-nhi-810/
Cameras and Lenses β 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 β 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[ β Horn of the Abyss β 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 β 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 β Lazy Reading β 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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