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

EuroBSDCon 2025 – Stefano Marinelli on Taking Back Internet with BSD. https://youtube.com/watch?v=EJBNrHInaQg

Linux is Not Operating System. https://linkedin.com/pulse/linux-operating-system-dmitry-kalashnikov-uyfgc/

How to Configure X11 in Simple Way on FreeBSD. https://eugene-andrienko.com/it/2025/07/24/x11-configuration-simple.html

Play Steam Windows Games with steam-bottler on FreeBSD Using Wine and Proton. https://github.com/es-j3/steam-bottler

The virtual_oss(8) is Now Part of FreeBSD Base System. https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-September/003305.html

I Switched from Linux to FreeBSD. Here is How That Went. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rk5kJ2iWYaU

OpenSSH 10.1p1 Call for Testing. https://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=175924033112821&w=2

Thinkpad SMAPI Driver for FreeBSD. https://github.com/sghctoma/thinkpad-smapi

VIM Command line Interactive History Buffer. https://michal.sapka.pl/2025/command-line/

Cosmopolitan Build Once Run Anywhere That Runs on Linux/Mac/Windows/FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

New freebsd-base(7) FreeBSD PKGBASE Man Page. https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=72bf56e273cb914e3b00f98e35e7270efd4edddb

New base-jail PKGBASE Set on FreeBSD. https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=31d00ac6c9ec342312ca4075d2e6dc0a68b5263d

Attempting to Get XLibre Running on FreeBSD. https://youtube.com/watch?v=TbRlGxsBt2U

Chimera NAS – High Performance Multi Protocol NAS Stack with Asynchronous VFS Backend. https://github.com/chimera-nas/chimera

FreeBSD Journal – 2025 Q3 – Embedded. https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/embedded-2/

BastilleBSD 1.1.0.251001 Released. https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/releases/tag/1.1.0.251001

Red Hat OpenShift AI Flaw Exposes Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure to Full Takeover. https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/critical-red-hat-openshift-ai-flaw.html

LibreSSL 4.1.1/4.0.1 Released. https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251002054519

Red Hat Confirms Security Incident After Hackers Breach GitLab Instance. https://bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/red-hat-confirms-security-incident-after-hackers-breach-gitlab-instance/

Mathematics in Maxima on FreeBSD. https://micski.dk/2025/09/05/mathematics-in-maxima-on-freebsd/

Documenting Input Commands and Output in Console Shell with script(1) Command. https://micski.dk/2025/09/05/documenting-input-commands-and-output-in-console-shell-with-script/

Changing GELI Password on Multiple Disks. https://micski.dk/2025/09/02/changing-geli-password-on-multiple-disks/

Meet calendar(8) UNIX Reminder Service. https://www.micski.dk/2025/08/20/calendar-the-unix-reminder-service/

FreeBSD and Secure Levels: How to Make Immutable Folders. https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20251002

BSD Router Project 2.0 – Modern/Compact/Ready for Production. https://thedistrowriteproject.blogspot.com/2025/10/BSD-Router-Project-2-0-modern-compact-and-ready-for-production.html

f3s: Kubernetes with FreeBSD – Part 1 – Setting the Stage. https://foo.zone/gemfeed/2024-11-17-f3s-kubernetes-with-freebsd-part-1.html

f3s: Kubernetes with FreeBSD – Part 2 – Hardware and Base Installation. https://foo.zone/gemfeed/2024-12-03-f3s-kubernetes-with-freebsd-part-2.html

f3s: Kubernetes with FreeBSD – Part 3 – Protecting from Power Cuts. https://foo.zone/gemfeed/2025-02-01-f3s-kubernetes-with-freebsd-part-3.html

f3s: Kubernetes with FreeBSD – Part 4 – Rocky Linux Bhyve VMs. https://foo.zone/gemfeed/2025-04-05-f3s-kubernetes-with-freebsd-part-4.html

f3s: Kubernetes with FreeBSD – Part 5 – WireGuard Mesh Network. https://foo.zone/gemfeed/2025-05-11-f3s-kubernetes-with-freebsd-part-5.html

f3s: Kubernetes with FreeBSD – Part 6 – Storage. https://foo.zone/gemfeed/2025-07-14-f3s-kubernetes-with-freebsd-part-6.html

f3s: Kubernetes with FreeBSD – Part 7 – First Pod Deployments. https://foo.zone/gemfeed/2025-10-02-f3s-kubernetes-with-freebsd-part-7.html

Debian: XLibre is Not Allowed. https://youtube.com/watch?v=fb16jNGrK0E

Self Hosting Email Like Its 1984. https://maxadamski.com/blog/2025/10/email.html

The yes(1) Command in FreeBSD. https://youtube.com/watch?v=H-wT_Y84zdE

Linux is Not Operating System – Part 2 – All About OpenBSD. https://linkedin.com/pulse/linux-operating-system-part-2-dmitry-kalashnikov-9lpdc/

FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA5 Now Available. https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-October/003330.html

NVMe Health on OpenBSD. https://yuce.me/posts/nvme-health-on-openbsd

QNX Operating System. https://abortretry.fail/p/the-qnx-operating-system

FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA5 is Now Live. https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/unexpected-freebsd-15-0-alpha-5-is-now-live/

PostgreSQL Server Activity Monitoring with pg_activity(8) Like top(1) Command. https://github.com/dalibo/pg_activity

FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA5 Brings Release Build Improvements. https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.0-Alpha-5

MicroTimes Interview with Doug and Larry Michels from Santa Cruz Operation. (1987) https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/microtimes-interview-with-doug-and

Unix is Both Technology and Idea. https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/UnixTechnologyAndIdea

Hardware

How AMD is Rethinking Its Chiplet Design. https://youtube.com/watch?v=maH6KZ0YkXU

U.S. Nuclear Program Still Uses 8 Inch Floppy Disks. [2016] https://smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-nuclear-program-still-uses-eight-inch-floppy-disks-180959245/

Microcomputers – Second Wave – Toward Mass Market. https://technicshistory.com/2025/10/03/microcomputers-the-second-wave-towards-a-mass-market/

Intel/AMD Trusted Enclaves – Foundation for Network Security – Fall to Physical Attacks. https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/intel-and-amd-trusted-enclaves-the-backbone-of-network-security-fall-to-physical-attacks/

Zhaoxin KH-50000 CPUs with Up to 96 Cores – First Die Shots Reveal 12 Compute Chiplets with IO Chiplet. https://wccftech.com/zhaoxin-launches-kh-50000-cpus-up-to-96-cores-first-die-shots-12-compute-chiplet/

Open Printer – Crowd Supply. https://crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer

Black Bird 66. https://www.blackbird66.com/

BYD Yangwang U9 Extreme Worlds Fastest Car with 308.4mph Top Speed. https://www.autotrader.co.uk/content/news/byd-builds-world-s-fastest-car

I Turned Lego Game Boy into Working Game Boy – Part 1. https://blog.nataliethenerd.com/i-turned-the-lego-game-boy-into-a-working-game-boy-part-1/

Life

EU ChatControl Wants to Scan All Your Private Messages. https://metalhearf.fr/posts/chatcontrol-wants-your-private-messages/

F-Droid and Google Developer Registration Decree. https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

10,000 Pushups and Other Silly Exercise Quests That Changed My Life. https://wjgilmore.com/articles/10000-pushups

Distracting Software Engineers is Way More Harmful than Most Managers Think. https://workweave.dev/blog/distracting-software-engineers-is-more-harmful-than-managers-think-even-in-the-ai-times

Study Shows: Body Fat is Safe Haven for Cancer Cells. https://naturalnews.com/054834_body_fat_cancer_cells_leukemia_recovery.html

Focus is Saying No. https://medium.com/@HobokenDays/software-modernization-projects-dilemma-part-2-7f6002c4b6f1

Other

Austria Military Switches from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/09/30/austrias-military-switches-from-microsoft-office-to-libreoffice/

LibreWolf 143.0.3 Released. https://codeberg.org/librewolf/bsys6/releases/tag/143.0.3-1

NIRS Fire Destroys Government Cloud Storage System – No Backups Available. https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-10-01/national/socialAffairs/NIRS-fire-destroys-governments-cloud-storage-system-no-backups-available/2412936

The test-ipv6.com Site Will Retire in 2025/12. https://retire.test-ipv6.com/

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/

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

Quote(s) of the Week

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.*

Arthur Schopenhauer

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