Valuable News – 2026/07/06

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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 ‘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.UNIXFreeBSD Foundationals: Boot Process – From Loader to Boot Environments.https://blog.hofstede.it/freebsd-foundationals-the-boot-process-from-the-loader-to-boot-environments/Running pkgbasify(8) on FreeBSD 15.1.https://dan.langille.org/2026/06/29/running-pkgbasify-on-freebsd-15-1/Linux io_uring(7) versus FreeBSD kqueue(9).https://linkedin.com/posts/vvoss_freebsd-security-linux-share-7476205343635812354-o6uG/End of ARM64 Desktop Experiment.https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2026/06/26/the-end-of-the-aarch64-desktop-experiment/Red Hat ARM Engineer Abandons ARM64 Linux Personal Desktop and Goes Back to AMD Ryzen.https://phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-ARM-Engineer-Back-RyzenGhostBSD 2026/03 Finance Report.https://ghostbsd.org/news/March_2026_Finance_ReportReplacing systemd(1) with OpenRC in Debian.https://danielcordova.me/blog/debian-openrc/Upgrading FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE to 15.1-RELEASE: Official Paths.https://blog.hofstede.it/upgrading-freebsd-150-release-to-151-release-the-official-paths/Modern Email Server Setup Script for FreeBSD.https://github.com/sizeofnull/bsdmailMake Your Own Read Only Device with NetBSD.https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/09/10/make-your-own-readonly-device-with-netbsd/‪How Degraded ZFS Pool Affect Your Upcoming Holiday Weekend?https://dan.langille.org/2026/07/02/data04-degraded/Vibe (Claude) Coded X11 Server Written in Rust with Xinerama and FreeBSD Support.https://phoronix.com/news/YSERVER-1.3-ReleasedAttempt to Get Vulkan Going on NetBSD.https://github.com/segaboy/vulkan-netbsdMemory Efficiency of awk(1)/mawk(1)/gawk(1) Tools.https://awklab.com/memory-efficiency-awk-mawk-gawkUnix Pipes Under Load: Streaming/Barriers/Backpressure.https://awklab.com/unix-pipes-under-loadThe htop(1) Explained.https://peteris.rocks/blog/htop/FreeBSD Ate My RAM.https://crocidb.com/post/freebsd-ate-my-ram/NFS Problems I Did Not Expect at All.https://niels.kobschaetzki.net/2026/07/03/nfsproblems-i-didnt-expect-at.htmlFFmpeg 9.1 New AAC Encoder.https://hydrogenaudio.org/index.php/topic,129691.0.htmlch32fun Stack for RISC-V Microcontrollers Adds FreeBSD Support.https://github.com/cnlohr/ch32fun/pull/918Monitoring FreeBSD Mastodon Instance with Prometheus/Grafana/Loki.https://blog.hofstede.it/monitoring-a-freebsd-mastodon-instance-with-prometheus-grafana-and-loki/FreeBSD on Framework Systems.https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/freebsd-on-frameworkAutoBSD is FreeBSD Auto Installer Using bsdinstall(8)/nuageinit(7)/mfsBSD.https://github.com/geekobiloba/autobsdFreeIPA Server Now Builds Successfully on FreeBSD with Poudriere!https://linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7479104100295606273/pkgbasify(8): Read Only /var/empty ZFS Filesystem.https://dan.langille.org/2026/06/30/pkgbasify-var-empty-is-a-readonly-zfs-filesystem/Running pkgbasify(8) on FreeBSD 15.0 Jail.https://dan.langille.org/2026/06/30/running-pkgbasify-on-a-freebsd-15-0-jail/Experimental BSDun Kernel Module Runs FreeBSD Binaries on Linux.https://linuxiac.com/experimental-bsdun-kernel-module-runs-freebsd-binaries-on-linux/UNIX/Audio/VideoFreeBSD After Hours AMA: Post BSDCan Recap.https://youtube.com/watch?v=7XbPCjJB1cwFreeBSD Laptop and Desktop Workgroup Call 19.https://youtube.com/watch?v=SxRQyma_p5ARoute All TCP Traffic from Isolated Machine Through HTTP Proxy on FreeBSD.https://youtube.com/watch?v=7T8F99zILvkGit w/o Rust Libre-WD40 from XLibre Dev.https://youtube.com/watch?v=SsMczeCEAwQI Tried FreeBSD After Years of Linux.https://youtube.com/watch?v=6bhVbgTHv3MBSD Now 670: Failure is Not an Option.https://www.bsdnow.tv/670HardwareDevice Sense Hardware Verifier that Reads from Chip and Detects Registry Tricks.https://github.com/jeffreyon/device-senseThinkPad Endgame.https://williamjansson.com/posts/thinkpad_endgame/LifeFormula 1 Champion We Never Got to See.https://youtube.com/watch?v=pPqMa2nqLw8OtherMay in Servo: User Scripts/MP4 Compat/Blackboxing and More.https://servo.org/blog/2026/06/30/may-in-servo/Wordgard 0.1 Release.https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/wordgard-0.1.htmlReactOS Implements First Windows NT6 System Call in Step Toward Vista Compatibility.https://phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-First-NT6-SyscallColin McRae Rally Retrospective: 1998 PlayStation Classic that Redefined Rally Racing.https://generationamiga.com/2026/07/04/colin-mcrae-rally-retrospective-the-1998-playstation-classic-that-redefined-rally-racing/Lamborghini American Challenge Retrospective: Story Behind Titus Classic AMIGA Racer.https://generationamiga.com/2026/05/10/lamborghini-american-challenge-retrospective-the-story-behind-titus-classic-amiga-racer/Chaos Engine Retrospective: AMIGA Classic That Redefined Co-Op Action.https://generationamiga.com/2026/07/05/the-chaos-engine-retrospective-the-amiga-classic-that-redefined-co-op-action/Usual SuspectsBSD 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/freebsdPhoronix BSD News Archives.https://phoronix.com/linux/BSDOpenBSD Journal.https://undeadly.org/Call for Testing.https://callfortesting.org/Call for Testing – Production Users Call.https://youtube.com/@callfortesting/videosBSD Now Weekly Podcast.https://www.bsdnow.tv/Nixers Newsletter.https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.phpBSD Cafe Journal.https://journal.bsd.cafe/DragonFly BSD Digest – Lazy Reading – In Other BSDs.https://dragonflydigest.comBSDTV.https://bsky.app/profile/bsdtv.bsky.socialFreeBSD Git Weekly.https://freebsd-git-weekly.tarsnap.net/FreeBSD Meetings.https://youtube.com/@freebsdmeetingsBSDJedi.https://youtube.com/@BSDJedi/videosRoboNuggie.https://youtube.com/@RoboNuggie/videosGaryHTech.https://youtube.com/@GaryHTech/videosSheridan Computers.https://youtube.com/@sheridans/videos82MHz.https://82mhz.net/EOF