----
#openbsd #debian
| Home | https://huc.fr.eu.org/en/ |
| Blog | https://doc.huc.fr.eu.org/en/ |
| OpenBSD Pour Tous (#obsd4a) | https://openbsd.fr.eu.org |
| Home | https://huc.fr.eu.org/en/ |
| Blog | https://doc.huc.fr.eu.org/en/ |
| OpenBSD Pour Tous (#obsd4a) | https://openbsd.fr.eu.org |
Weekly Echoes #2026W20: IT news, round-up, week 20; from 05/11 to 05/17.
Weekly Echoes #19: IT news, round-up, week 19; from 04/05 to 10/05; year 2026
Weekly Echoes #18: IT news, round-up, week 18; from 27/04 to 03/05; year 2026
Sylve 0.3.0 (pre-release on github) adds a lightweight PF-based firewall + a seriously capable WireGuard manager.
Set up a deployment today for a client with multiple VoIP endpoints behind CGNAT (providing them with public IPs), and a tiny FreeBSD box (<1GB RAM, 1 Shared vCPU) is handling all traffic flawlessly. It’s honestly the kind of setup you forget even exists.
Before Sylve, we were hand-managing WireGuard configs for setups like this... not something I'm going to miss!
Weekly Echoes #17: IT news, round-up, week 17; from 20 to 26/04; year 2026
Time for a new #OpenBSD story! Investigating what appears to be a VAX bug turns out to be the consequence of a more-than-late processor design change, so brace yourselves for a VAX history lesson!
Cleaning Up Critical Infrastructure in FreeBSD
Sustainable open source requires more than new features. It demands disciplined security work, clear visibility into dependencies, and long-term maintainability.
Through the Beach Cleaning Project, funded by the Alpha-Omega Project, we strengthened the FreeBSD base system by improving third-party software tracking, advancing SBOM tooling, and aligning security processes for future resilience.
Read more:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/cleaning-up-critical-infrastructure-in-freebsd/
#FreeBSD
The unseen hero of OpenBSD: otto’s malloc What this is about This is me learning about OpenBSD’s malloc. I try not to do a surface-level overview. I want to understand the internals better, the data structures, the design decisions, and why those decisions make heap exploitation so much harder. What malloc actually does Every C program that needs memory at runtime calls malloc. malloc is a library function. It’s not a syscall – it’s a layer between your code and the kernel.