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You use OpenBSD and when you upgrade your packages you often wonder which one is a rebuild and which one is a real version update? The packages updates are logged in /var/log/messages and using awk it's easy to achieve some kind of report.

hucsteon OpenBSD on the via Eden X2 Powered HP T510 Thin Client

Running OpenBSD on the t510 Thin Client VIA Eden X2 CPU

hucsteon What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Part 3: That packet filter

This series aims to highlight the project’s signature security features and development practices — razor-sharp focus on correct and secure code coupled with continuing code audit — as well as the project’s role as a source of innovation in security practices and an ‘upstream’ source for numerous widely-used components such as OpenSSH, PF, LibreSSL and others. Part 1 focused on the history, Part 2 focused on usage and user experience, and this final part will looks at that packet filter (PF).

hucsteon OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi 4 with Full-Disk Encryption

Raspberry Pi 4 running with OpenBSD 6.9 and full-disk encryption on a USB3 memory stick

hucsteon An LDC bootstrap compiler and LDC package for OpenBSD

How building an LDC bootstrap works (at least on OpenBSD)

hucsteon How BSD Authentication Works

Prefer: https://openports.pl/path/security/openpam

"OpenBSD Ports Readme" was made by solene@, team member OpenBSD.

hucsteon Goaccess / OpenBSD

Error on URL! See: - https://doc.huc.fr.eu.org/en/monitor/goaccess-openbsd/

hucsteon Goaccess / OpenBSD

Install to use Goaccess on OpenBSD (with configuration snippets for both webserver, httpd and nginx)

hucsteon Building an OpenBSD router using an APU4D4

But this article is a bit old! ;)

hucsteon Full WireGuard Setup with OpenBSD

We want all our network traffic to through a WireGuard VPN tunnel automatically, both WireGuard client and server are running OpenBSD, how to do that?

hucsteon Benchmarking compilation time with ccache/mfs on OpenBSD

how to make packages building faster. There are at least two easy tricks available: storing temporary data into RAM and caching build objects.

hucsteon Experimenting with a new OpenBSD development lab

This article is not an how to or explaining anything, I just wanted to share how I spend my current free time. It's obviously OpenBSD related.

hucsteon Quick fix GhostBSD 21.09.08 ISO now available

This new ISO contains a vital fix for lightdm after installation. For an unknown reason, sysrc does not work in the isotohd.sh script.

hucsteon OpenBSD's scp(1) now uses SFTP protocol by default

The original scp/rcp protocol remains available via the -O flag. Note that ~user/ prefixed paths in SFTP mode require a protocol extension that was first shipped in OpenSSH 8.7.

hucsteon Across the Multiverse

Some explains in French from the author on:

- https://www.jesuisundev.com/across-multiverse/

hucsteon Fair Internet bandwidth management on a network using OpenBSD

The point of this article is to explain how to use OpenBSD as a router on your network to allow the Internet access to be used fairly by devices on the network to guarantee everyone they will have at least a bit of Internet to continue working flawlessly.

hucsteon NumWorks Calculator Changes Licensing (June 2021)

Déplorable !

hucsteon Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better

Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better (and may turn up elsewhere too)

hucsteon Let's write a compiler, part 2: A lexer

Writing a complete lexer for our PL/0 compiler.

hucsteon Let's write a compiler, part 6: Input and output

Adding basic input and output routines to our PL/0 compiler.

hucsteon Pkgupdate, an OpenBSD script to update packages fast

pkgupdate is a simple shell script meant for OpenBSD users of the stable branchs (people following releases) to easily keep their packages up to date.