Author Archives: bryaneverly

To follow up on my last post where I talked about the high-level concepts involved with OpenBSD ports & packages and why you would want to work on them (Time to make the donuts), I thought I would share an … Continue reading →

One of the things I enjoy doing as I learn more about OpenBSD and the community around it is to help with the effort to port software to the platform that I personally find useful and think others will.  The … Continue reading →

As I work on some ports for OpenBSD, one of the issues that has been mentally nagging at me is the idea that I might have a great AMD64 port but it won’t actually work on other processor architectures.  To … Continue reading →

OK.  At this point, I have a working router for my internal network.  I’m using pf as my firewall, have a heavily (in my mind) secured ssh path into things and I’m having fun watching port scanners hit me and … Continue reading →

Now that I have my laptop working well, it’s time to address one of the main reasons I wanted to explore OpenBSD – securing my home network.  Many people might question the need for this.  After all, isn’t that the … Continue reading →

To continue the security / privacy theme, I discovered some really nice tools on a site called http://privacytools.io and incorporated them into my setup. I’m now running Firefox full-time and am using LastPass as a password manager so that I … Continue reading →

Now that I have the OpenBSD install humming along securely on my primary hard drive, it’s time to set up Arch Linux and my Windows VM on the mSATA drive.  I want to make sure that I take the same … Continue reading →

So I figured that if I really wanted to leverage the capabilities of OpenBSD, I should do my utmost to ensure that what I created was a secure experience.  The first thing that jumped to mind was cryptographic security of … Continue reading →

Since I had chosen the Thinkpad x220 for my platform in this experiment.  I needed to think through exactly what my goals were.  Specifically I wanted to have a platform where I could: Dedicate the entire drive to OpenBSD Still … Continue reading →

My first experience on a multi-user UNIX system back in the 80’s was on SunOS, so the concept of Berkley UNIX was one that was ingrained in me very early.  I went from that experience to writing and maintaining a … Continue reading →