Some persons are amazed to see that OpenBSD is a perfect OS for desktops and laptops. This post will show you how simple it is to install desktop's application on top of OpenBSD

Those days, when you fire-up a new machine, it takes few hours that bad persons are trying to connect to your machine via ssh, try default URL with default passwords, ... This post will explain how OpenBSD can easily helps you to ban those persons out of your machine for quite a long time.

You are an happy owner of a NAS running on OpenBSD proposing NFS shared drives. And your life is perfect with [OpenBSD client](/post/post_20160822) (maybe you have read one of my article on that subject). But this idilyc echosystem is in danger when a friend of you comes and connects is brand new Linux laptop on your NFS server.

If you are using an USB keyboard, there is standard tool in OpenBSD which allows you to assign specific commands to each of those keys. No need to install extra package, it's already part of the default OpenBSD install

Let me share my expertise for the best parameters of NFS client on a laptop running OpenBSD.

I will explain how OpenBSD has become the key element in my Hifi installation. Close to Keff speakers, Arcam amplifier and Cambridge Audio DAC, I've placed a small OpenBSD machine. Why ? How ? I'll explain it.

In this post I'll explain what I did in order to have the concept of [Time machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Machine_(OS_X)) on my NFS server. As you can imagine this solution relies mainly on the HardLink concept and use `rsync` to perform the tasks. All of this is embedded in a small shell script. It works well on my OpenBSD machine, but should also works on any Unix-like machines.

I'll explain how I've configured OpenBSD in order to have an encrypted Network Area Storage

In this post I'll explain what I did to filter the internet access in my house. You will see that the access is based on simple rules and is not the same for every users.

When you have machines that must run 24x7, you must take into account the problem of powercut. To my eyes there is 2 possible solutions: - use an UPS - have a readonly operating system In this post, I'll describe how you can easily transform your OpenBSD machine into a Read-only system.