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Old 31st May 2008
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Welcome to OpenBSD!

OpenBSD's "GUI" is known by many names: X, X11, Xorg, Xenocara ... but what you need to know about Unix-like systems and their X environments is ... you usually have lots of choices. OpenBSD has about 40 different window managers available. Two of them are built in, the rest are add-on packages.

When you logged in as root for the very first time, it told you you have e-mail. But, since you missed the message or didn't know what to do, I'll tell you. At the # prompt, type "mail" and press Enter. You'll see mail message number 1. Type "1" and press Enter.

If that's too confusing, you can type "less /var/mail/root" and just read what's in your e-mail queue with the "less" command.

It will tell you about the man pages, and one of the best ones to read as a new user is afterboot(8). To read it, type "man afterboot' at the # prompt.

Another wonderful resource is the OpenBSD FAQ. FAQ 4 you probably used to install, but you missed FAQ 11, which is all about the "X Window System." (Hey, look, yet another name for the same thing!)
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