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Old 25th October 2011
ocicat ocicat is offline
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Originally Posted by amrogers3 View Post
Trying to google as much as I can, however, apparently my google Fu is not so good.
This is not as effective a method as you may assume.

OpenBSD is constantly changing -- especially given that there are two new releases each year. Most information randomly found on the Internet (usually found on Google...) is either out-of-date, incomplete, or simply wrong. The best sources of information are (The order below is intentional...):
  1. OpenBSD's manpages.
  2. Information stated by project developers on the project's mailing lists:

    http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html
  3. OpenBSD's official FAQ.
  4. Other non-project sites bearing information should all be considered suspect -- including this one.
OpenBSD is an extremely small project in comparison to others -- *BSD or otherwise. A significant infrastructure for helping newcomers does not exist outside of the sources mentioned above. Most who come to OpenBSD are professionals who have Unix experience. A lot of hand-holding is not available. However, for those who study the sources above in earnest, they can compensate for cultural & community shortcomings.

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