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
Dual FIB Policy Routing on FreeBSD: Two Upstreams/One Server/Zero Confusion.
https://blog.hofstede.it/dual-fib-policy-routing-on-freebsd-two-upstreams-one-server-zero-confusion/
Native FreeBSD OCI Containers – Jails without System Administration.
https://daemonless.io/
ZXC is High Performance Asymmetric Lossless Compression.
https://github.com/hellobertrand/zxc
BoxyBSD Shuts Down.
https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@BoxyBSD/116279818958948678
Beautiful/Modern DE for FreeBSD.
https://omfreebdy.dba.wtf/
FreeBSD Git Weekly: 2026-03-16 to 2026-03-22.
https://freebsd-git-weekly.tarsnap.net/2026-03-16.html
Latest GhostBSD-26.1-R15.0p2 ISO Available.
https://ci.ghostbsd.org/jenkins/job/stable-15/job/Build%20ISO%20For%20Testing%20Packages/11/
WordPerfect for UNIX Character Terminals.
https://github.com/taviso/wpunix
# curl > /dev/sda
https://astrid.tech/2026/03/24/0/curl-to-dev-sda/
Shell Tricks That Actually Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity).
https://blog.hofstede.it/shell-tricks-that-actually-make-life-easier-and-save-your-sanity/
Wine 11 Rewrites How Windows Games Run at Kernel Level and Speed Gains are Massive.
https://xda-developers.com/wine-11-rewrites-linux-runs-windows-games-speed-gains/
https://x.com/Pirat_Nation/status/2036624107035672809
Building 10 Server FreeBSD Jail Cluster Running LAMP (Apache/MySQL/Perl/PHP/Python) Stack.
https://pc-freak.net/blog/building-10server-freebsd-jail-cluster-running-lamp-linux-apache-mysql-perl-php-python-stack/
XMMS Codebase Brought Back to Life by AI with GTK4 + GStreamer/PipeWire Port.
https://phoronix.com/news/XMMS-AI-Port-To-PipeWire-GTK4
https://gitlab.com/cschalle/xmms-resuscitated
Ubuntu 26.10 Looks to Strip Its GRUB Bootloader To Bare Minimum for Better Security.
https://phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.10-Lighter-GRUB
Unix History.
https://michal.sapka.pl/unix-history/
Evolution of Unix Time Sharing System – Dennis Ritchie. [1979]
https://nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/hist.pdf
Optimizing Stream Editing Performance – Implementations of sed(1) Compared.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11433192
Vibe Coded ext4 for OpenBSD.
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1064541/1a399d572a046fb9/
DRBD Working to Land 15 Years Worth of Changes into Linux Kernel.
https://phoronix.com/news/DRBD-15-Years-Code-Changes
My Multi Stage Backup Strategy: ZFS/Proxmox/Paranoia.
https://blog.hofstede.it/my-multi-stage-backup-strategy-zfs-proxmox-and-paranoia/
The vi(1) Editor.
https://vivianvoss.net/blog/vi
Build Your Own NetBSD LiveCD.
https://drsaracco.wordpress.com/2026/03/28/build-your-own-netbsd-livecd-2/
FreeBSD Audio Diagnostics and Optimization.
https://m4c.pl/blog/freebsd-audio-diagnostics-and-optimization/?utm_source=discoverbsd
Story of OpenBSD on Motorola 88000 Series Processors.
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260325122415
UNIX/Audio/Video
UNIX Lawsuit That Almost Killed Internet (Birth of FreeBSD).
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wK2fBr2G38c
Slackware Says No to Age Verification Bullshit.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=M5Wd39RNzvg
Sheridan Connect – Browser Based Remote Access.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3a6tW7yynrM
Sheridan Connect – Browser Based Remote Access.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3a6tW7yynrM
BSD Now 656: Honey I Shrunk PDP.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/656
Hardware
3Dfx Voodoo Lives Again in FPGA.
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/22/the-3dfx-voodoo-lives-again-in-an-fpga/
Samsung Kills SATA SSDs and Your Next Storage Upgrade Just Got More Expensive.
https://xda-developers.com/samsung-killing-off-sata-ssds-next-upgrade-got-more-expensive/
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition Desktop Processor with 192 MB L3 Cache.
https://techpowerup.com/347757/amd-announces-ryzen-9-9950x3d2-dual-edition-desktop-processor-with-192-mb-l3-cache
MicroPython in Development for AMIGA: Modern Language on Classic Hardware.
https://generationamiga.com/2026/03/26/micropython-in-development-for-the-commodore-amiga-a-modern-language-on-classic-hardware/
Prototyping with Conductive Nano Copper Ink from Copprint.
https://voltera.io/blog/prototyping-conductive-nano-copper-ink-copprint
Disabling Security Features in Locked Dell BIOS.
https://mdsec.co.uk/2026/03/disabling-security-features-in-a-locked-bios/
Hold On to Your Hardware.
https://マリウス.com/hold-on-to-your-hardware/#tldr
Life
Hypocrisy at Heart of AI Industry.
https://theatlantic.com/technology/2026/03/hypocrisy-ai-industry/686477/
Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them.
https://psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them
Other
Firefox 149.0 Now Available for Download – Brings Split View.
https://linuxiac.com/firefox-149-now-available-for-download-brings-split-view/
Firefox 149.0 Open Reference Web Browser Now with Rust Based JPEG-XL.
https://medium.com/@Re-News/firefox-149-the-open-reference-web-browser-now-with-rust-based-jpeg-xl-7f84965a59d7
Firefox 149.0 Available with XDG Portal File Picker and Rust Based JPEG-XL Decoder.
https://phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Firefox-149
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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