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 Now Builds Reproducibly and w/o root Privilege. https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-now-builds-reproducibly-and-without-root-privilege/

FreeBSD Celebrates Milestone of Reproducible Builds and No root Needed. https://phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Goes-Reproducible

OpenIndiana 2025.10 Available. https://openindiana.org/announcements/openindiana-hipster-2025-10-announcement/

OpenIndiana 2025.10 ISOs Available for Download. https://phoronix.com/news/OpenIndiana-2025.10

Sailor is Portable Container System for NetBSD/Mac OS X/Linux. https://github.com/NetBSDfr/sailor

3 More X.Org Server and Wayland Security Vulnerabilities Made Public. https://phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-3-Vuln-Oct-2025

What is FreeBSD: What Are Pros and Cons of FreeBSD? https://zenarmor.com/docs/linux-tutorials/freebsd

FreeBSD on UGREEN DXP4800 Plus NAS. https://smurfd.serveblog.net/log/messages024.html

Building Turso Golang Client on FreeBSD. https://conradresearch.com/articles/building-turso-golang-client-on-freebsd

Making veb(4) Virtual Ethernet Bridge VLAN Aware on OpenBSD. https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251029114507

Configuring Fastest pkg(8) Mirror on FreeBSD. https://youtube.com/watch?v=-hvjgNBr0Nc

Temporal Dev Server on FreeBSD. https://conradresearch.com/articles/temporal-dev-server-on-freebsd

Turn OpenBSD into Windows 3.1 with Progman. https://youtube.com/watch?v=xbx8qa6goWE

Is FreeBSD Still Relevant in 2025? Comparing Its Ecosystem with Modern Linux Distros. https://maxiujun.com/is-freebsd-still-relevant-in-2025-comparing-its-ecosystem-with-modern-linux-distros/

Why I Use NetBSD. [2013] https://luke.maurits.id.au/writing/why-i-use-netbsd.html

BlackBSD is NetBSD Based OS with Security Tools on It. https://github.com/betounix902/BlackBSD

NetBSD Foundation Appeals for $50K Donations Amid Funding Crisis. https://webpronews.com/netbsd-foundation-appeals-for-50k-donations-amid-funding-crisis/

First FreeBSD 15 Beta is Here and Its Dropping Most 32-bit Devices. https://howtogeek.com/the-first-freebsd-15-beta-is-here-and-it-drops/

Introduction to OCI Containers on FreeBSD. https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/oci-containers-on-freebsd/

Run Linux Containers on FreeBSD. https://youtube.com/watch?v=HV-wUUzRCMo

Open Container Initiative (OCI) Adds FreeBSD as Platform to Runtime Spec. https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/pull/1286

LibreOffice 25.8.2 Released. https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/10/09/release-of-libreoffice-25-8-2/

Block Countries on OpenBSD Using PF. https://jmorano.moretrix.com/2022/03/block-countries-on-openbsd-using-pf/

Tribblix with Bhyve WiFi Bridge on Thinkpad X260 with Intel 8260. https://cryogenix.org/library/operating-systems/tribblix-with-bhyve-wifi-bridge-on-a-thinkpad-x260-w-intel-8260

FreeBSD 15.0-BETA4 Released with Newer WiFi Drivers and Updated OpenZFS. https://phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.0-Beta-4

FreeBSD Builds of uWebSockets.js – Highly Scalable WebSocket and HTTP Server for Node. https://github.com/louwers/uws-freebsd

Podman vs. Docker – Better on Paper – Losing in Practice. https://linkedin.com/pulse/podman-vs-docker-better-paper-losing-practice-mr-planb-n9zmf/

Quality of Life in Open Source Ecosystem: BSD/Linux/Unix and Beyond. https://thedistrowriteproject.blogspot.com/2025/10/Quality-of-Life-in-the-Open-Source-Ecosystem-BSD-Linux-Unix-and-Beyond.html

SmolBSD Forked and Modified to Work with FreeBSD. https://github.com/gmt4/smolBSD

The fake-systemd is Shell Script That Fakes systemctl(1) Command. https://github.com/gmt4/fake-systemd

Fix Small Font in FreeBSD Virtual Console. [2022] https://micski.dk/2022/01/06/fix-small-font-in-freebsd-virtual-terminal-system-console/

Using FreeBSD to Make Self Hosting Fun Again. https://jsteuernagel.de/posts/using-freebsd-to-make-self-hosting-fun-again/

Prison of My Own Making. https://jsteuernagel.de/posts/a-prison-of-my-own-making/

OpenBSD 7.8 Highlights. https://rsadowski.de/posts/2025/openbsd-78/

Hardware

AMD ZEN6 to Cram Up to 32 CPU Cores Per CCD. https://techpowerup.com/322694/amd-zen-6-to-cram-up-to-32-cpu-cores-per-ccd

Ultimate Guide to AMD Chiplets. https://anysilicon.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-chiplets/

Logitech MX Master 4 Mouse. https://logitech.com/en-eu/shop/p/mx-master-4

Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting Secret Map of His House. https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/robot-vacuum-broadcasting

Soldering Custom Motherboard with AMD Ryzen CPU – Part 1. [Polish] https://youtube.com/watch?v=9TmLN8_jEKs

Soldering and Running Custom Motherboard with AMD Ryzen CPU – Part 2. [Polish] https://youtube.com/watch?v=s0bbon-REwo

Life

Our Inability to Understand Exponential Function is Our Biggest Weakness. https://youtube.com/watch?v=1bvwOrGn1Zs

Other

Microsoft Teams Will Start Snitching to Your Boss When You Are Not in Office. https://tomsguide.com/computing/office-software/microsoft-teams-will-start-snitching-to-your-boss-when-youre-not-in-the-office-and-this-update-is-coming-in-december

Better Search Suggestions in Firefox. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/better-search-suggestions/

Google Says Sideloading is Not Going Anywhere F-Droid Calls It Fake News. https://androidauthority.com/google-android-sideloading-claims-misleading-f-droid-3611139/

Google Flags Immich (Google Photos Open Source Alternative) as Dangerous. https://immich.app/blog/google-flags-immich-as-dangerous

Facebook/Meta Accused of Pirating 2,400 Adult Films for AI Training – $359M Copyright Lawsuit. https://biztechweekly.com/meta-accused-of-pirating-2400-adult-films-for-ai-training-359m-copyright-lawsuit-highlights-ethical-and-legal-risks/

LibreWolf 144.0.2 Released. https://codeberg.org/librewolf/bsys6/releases/tag/144.0.2-1

Calling All Libraries: Celebrate 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived with Internet Archive. https://blog.archive.org/2025/10/07/calling-all-libraries-celebrate-1-trillion-web-pages-archived-with-the-internet-archive/

I Stream Nothing and I am Happy. https://tinkerbetter.tube/w/adb3102a-f329-44a8-86c7-50c7e52a5bd7

Generate Any Location with Arnis from Real World in Minecraft Java Edition with High Level of Detail. https://github.com/louis-e/arnis

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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