Valuable News – 2026/10/26

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

Wine Ported to OpenBSD.
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=179236125692175

One Stale Signal Mask and Claude Code Froze on FreeBSD.
https://tradik.com/blog/freebsd-linuxulator-epoll-sigmask/

Updated dbupdate(8) Tool on OpenBSD-current.
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20261021191736

Open Firewall Port with discodoor(8) Only to Named Machines.
https://github.com/sysadminmike/discodoor

Searchable FreeBSD amd64 Syscall Table.
https://thatsillyman.win/resources/freebsd/syscall-table/

macOS Quietly Vanished from Official UNIX Registry.
https://linkedin.com/pulse/macos-quietly-vanished-from-official-unix-registry-shivashish-yadav-2b0ef/

NetBSD May Have Found New Role: AI Free OS.
https://theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/13/netbsd-new-role-ai-free-os/5302818

NFS over RDMA Setup.
https://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/nfs-over-rdma-setup.txt

Install Signal Desktop on FreeBSD Using Linux Binary Compatibility.
https://unixdigest.com/tutorials/how-to-install-signal-desktop-on-freebsd-using-the-linux-binary-compatibility.html

OpenBSD 8.0 Released.
https://openbsd.org/80.html

New GhostBSD 26.2-R15.1p4 ISO Testing Image.
https://ci.ghostbsd.org/jenkins/job/stable-15/job/Build%20ISO%20For%20Testing%20Packages/46/

The jj(1) Version Control System on NFS is Not Fun.
https://bentsukun.ch/posts/jj-nfs/

FreeBSD Base Comes from One Team.
https://vivianvoss.net/blog/one-team

Building syslog-ng(8) with Bundled Ivykis on FreeBSD.
https://peter.czanik.hu/other/syslog-ng-building-with-bundled-ivykis-on-freebsd/

Solaris and Linux Compared: Filesystems.
https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.com/2026/10/solaris-and-linux-compared-filesystems.html

Expose Only Share Links of Private Service with Caddy.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2026-10-21-caddy-forward-auth-public-share-links.html

Backup Gitea via Mirroring.
https://dan.langille.org/2026/10/20/backing-up-my-gitea-via-mirroring/

Single Partition Encrypted NetBSD 11 Root.
https://indigoparadox.zone/tutorials/netbsd11c.html

BSD Weekly - Issue 301.
https://bsdweekly.com/issues/301

NetBSD eMudhra TLS/SSL CA Compromise.
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/emudhra_tls_ssl_ca_compromise

FreeBSD Git Weekly: 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-18:
https://freebsd-git-weekly.tarsnap.net/2026-10-12.html

FreeBSD newsyslog(8) Rotates Log in One Line.
https://vivianvoss.net/blog/newsyslog-one-line

Cube is macOS VM Manager to Run FreeBSD ARM64 on Apple Silicon with Hypervisor.framework.
https://cube.neuralengine.net/

Ports Trees of the BSDs.
https://daemonports.org/

Meet bob(1) Powerful pkgsrc Package Builder for NetBSD.
https://github.com/jperkin/bob

Renewing TLS Certs with HAProxy and DNS-01.
https://people.freebsd.org/~dch/posts/2026-10-08-haproxy-acme/

Docker is Weird.
https://codeandcake.dev/posts/2026-10-22-docker-is-weird

Uberblok Interactive Museum of ZFS.
https://uberblok.storagebits.workers.dev/en/

Restoring Mouse Copy Paste Behavior in tmux(1) Guide
https://devgex.com/en/article/00051919

LibreSSL 4.4.0 Released.
https://bsdsec.net/articles/libressl-4-4-0-released

Automated Watch of Vulnerabilities Affecting my Infrastructure.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2026-10-23-automated-vulnerability-watch.html

The Editor Wars.
https://people.freebsd.org/~dch/posts/2026-10-15-the-editor-wars/

Daemonarchy - Omarchy Desktop on FreeBSD - Installer ISO and Build Tooling.
https://github.com/jordanhubbard/daemonarchy

Stage One of NAS Beautification Project.
https://vulcanridr.mataroa.blog/blog/stage-one-of-the-nas-beautification-project/

UNIX/Audio/Video

NetBSD: Installation.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=r_H66uhQKyo

FreeBSD Goes 100% GPL Free.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-GL1VwwxJF0

macOS is No Longer UNIX.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MHaZIFbcodQ

BSD Now 686: Yell in Your Shell.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/686

Hardware

Slurptop.
https://slurpburgers.com/slurpbuilds/the-slurptop/

Life

Richard Gray Obituary.
https://legacy.com/legacy/notable-deaths/richard-gray

Judge Orders Meta to Name Employees Who Approved Torrenting Anna Archive and LibGen.
https://torrentfreak.com/judge-orders-meta-to-name-employees-who-approved-torrenting-annas-archive-and-libgen/

DNS Resolver IBM Quad9 Will Leave France After Court Orders Piracy Blocking Penalty.
https://torrentfreak.com/dns-resolver-quad9-will-leave-france-after-court-orders-piracy-blocking-penalty/

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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