Valuable News – 2026/10/19

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

GhostBSD Mocka Dock 0.0.2 Alpha.
https://mocka-desktop.org/news/mocka-dock-0-0-2/

Apple macOS on AMD Hosted FreeBSD Bhyve VM.
https://github.com/PotemkinCo/macos-amd-bhyve

NetBSD Now Runs on 32bit RISC-V KianV ASIC.
https://x.com/knewter/status/2109385194595865021

Adopting FreeBSD Port.
https://tbarabosch.com/adopting-a-freebsd-port/

FreeBSD Git Weekly: 2026-10-05 to 2026-10-11.
https://freebsd-git-weekly.tarsnap.net/2026-10-05.html

Meet FemtoFS the Zero Fsck Giving Filesystem.
https://github.com/puffetto/FemtoFS

RAIDZ Expansion in Practice: What It Solves and What It Does Not.
https://klarasystems.com/articles/raidz-expansion-in-practice-what-it-solves/

Web Frontend for vm-bhyve on FreeBSD.
https://github.com/failedrequest/html-vm

Your Precious Linux Binaries Already Run on FreeBSD.
https://vivianvoss.net/blog/linux-binaries

What cloud-init(8) Installs to Read One YAML File.
https://vivianvoss.net/blog/cloud-init

CARP Fails Over without Daemon.
https://vivianvoss.net/blog/carp-failover

GhostBSD 2026/06 Finance Report.
https://ghostbsd.org/news/June_2026_Finance_Report

GhostBSD 2026/07 Finance Report.
https://ghostbsd.org/news/July_2026_Finance_Report

Your Edited Config Survives Upgrade on FreeBSD.
https://vivianvoss.net/blog/config-merge

BSD Weekly - Issue 300.
https://bsdweekly.com/issues/300

Use Sylve for Fster/Smpler/Prettier FreeBSD Install.
https://reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1x9b86i/faster_simpler_prettier_freebsd_install/

Introducing uncm(4) for OpenBSD.
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20261018200218

Syncthing on NetBSD.
https://www.dwarmstrong.org/syncthing-netbsd/

Exploring HumanWare BrailleNote Apex with FreeBSD.
https://alfonsosiciliano.gitlab.io/posts/2026-10-15-freebsd-apex.html

I Vibecoded Rust Alternative to Dawarich. It Uses 30x Less RAM.
https://aumont.fr/posts/dawarich-rs/

New x11appjail 2.0.0 Release - Testing D-Bus Proxy and Linux Brave.
https://reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/1x8vn4u/x11appjail_dbus_proxy_linux_brave/

UNIX/Audio/Video

FreeBSD vs Linux: Why Best Engineers Fight Over This.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_zH-X7aIGVk

BSD Now 685: Busy at Bar.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/685

Hardware

ThinkCentre M715q Power Usage and BSDes.
https://tumfatig.net/2026/m715q-power-usage-and-the-bsdes/

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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