Valuable News – 2026/11/02

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

BSD Users Can Now Enjoy Omarchy Flavor.
https://itsfoss.com/news/daemonarchy-overview/

The buildworld Builds All of FreeBSD.
https://vivianvoss.net/blog/buildworld

Flash ThinkPad T480 to Boot with FreeBSD Orb.
https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/117509059317232364

Updating BIOS and Boot Logo on ThinkPad P14s Running FreeBSD.
https://justine.smithies.me.uk/updating-the-bios-and-boot-logo-on-a-thinkpad-p14s-running-freebsd.html

Install AMD GPU (amdgpu) on NetBSD with Modular X11.
https://codeberg.org/blackmirroxx/netbsd_amdgpu

Torrents Through Mullvad on FreeBSD.
https://www.frimin.fr/posts/torrents-through-mullvad/

FreeBSD Founder Ports Omarchy to FreeBSD in 10 Days.
https://theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/27/freebsd-founder-ports-omarchy-to-freebsd/5305446

The jailops is ZFS Native Management Platform for FreeBSD Jails.
https://github.com/jailops/jailops

GhostBSD 26.2-R15.1p6 Now Available.
https://ghostbsd.org/node/68

GhostBSD 26.2 Released as FreeBSD 15.1 Powered OS with New Installer.
https://phoronix.com/news/GhostBSD-26.2

One pkg upgrade Fixed Brotli on FreeBSD.
https://vivianvoss.net/blog/pkg-upgrade-brotli

HyprBSD is FreeBSD with Hyprland Desktop.
https://hyprbsd.org/

FreeBSD on OVH Dedicated Server.
https://www.frimin.fr/posts/freebsd-on-ovh/

AlpineBSD Based on NetBSD Kernel with Userspace Inspired by Alpine Linux.
https://wiki.alpinebsd.org/

FreeBSD AI Assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project 2026/09 Update.
https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/all-projects/blob/main/AI-assisted-vulnerability-discovery/monthly-updates/2026-09.md

Setup Encrypted ZFS on NetBSD.
https://artemis.sh/2026/10/23/netbsd-encrypted-zfs.html

Poudriere Builds Ports in FreeBSD Jail.
https://vivianvoss.net/blog/poudriere-ports

BSDRunner Collection of Quickshell Tools for FreeBSD Hyprland Desktop.
https://github.com/djberg96/BSDRunner/wiki/BSDRunner-Apps

Linux Foundationals from Silicon to Userspace - Boot and Init Chain.
https://blog.hofstede.it/linux-foundationals-from-silicon-to-userspace-the-boot-and-init-chain/

FreeBSD Git Weekly: 2026-10-19 to 2026-10-25.
https://freebsd-git-weekly.tarsnap.net/2026-10-19.html

PostgreSQL 19 Scary Patch Contest.
https://lwn.net/Articles/1092003/

BSD Router Project 2.3 Released.
https://github.com/ocochard/BSDRP/releases/tag/v2.3

Work on GEFS for OpenBSD Progresses.
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20261101115637

FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT/aarch64 on Apple Virtualization Framework.
https://github.com/tjfontaine/freebsd-apple-virtualization

Kubernetes (f3s) with FreeBSD - Part 11 - Remote Control with f3sctl and RESTForge.
https://foo.zone/gemfeed/2026-11-01-f3s-kubernetes-with-freebsd-part-11.html

RealNAS is Package Set that Adds NAS Management to Stock FreeBSD System.
https://realnas.io/

BSD Weekly - Issue 302.
https://bsdweekly.com/issues/302

UNIX/Audio/Video

FreeBSD Was Born without Permission.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=e_zYv1gKHRw

BSD Now 687: Long Term Support.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/687

Life

AI Promised Less Work. I Have Never Worked More.
https://oioannou.com/blog/ai-promised-less-work/

Even with All That Mess.
https://my-notes.dragas.net/2026/10/27/even-with-all-that-mess/

Other

Quad9 Says Farewell to France.
https://quad9.net/news/blog/au-revoir-france/

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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