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Old 25th May 2008
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Originally Posted by OzarkOsage View Post
Need Some Help Please
Alright, to get started, I'll admit that you have a considerable uphill battle coming from Windows to OpenBSD with only a little(?) Linux experience.

But it's well worth it. Here are some great places for you to start your reading. Be aware you will need to be doing quite a lot of it to run OpenBSD in the ways you want coming straight from the Windows way of doing things.

The official OpenBSD FAQ:
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html

BSD for Linux users:
http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd...bsd4linux1.php

OpenBSD for beginners:
http://www.openbsd101.com/

That final site has a great detailed intro on getting, installing, configuring and securing OpenBSD. You should be reading those and following those sorts of guides to get hands-on experience. Be prepared to stuff up a bunch of installs and break things. In fact, I'd encourage that, it's often the best way to learn.

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I heard last night, that Open BSD is the MOST SECURE Linux Operating System that one can install.
OK, as mentioned, BSD is not Linux and Linux is not BSD. You'll need to check the link above "BSD for Linux users" to start to understand the differences between them.

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that it's NOT as secure as Open BSD OS.

Is this all TRUE?
Granted, OpenBSD is often regarded as the most secure operating system out there, but that doesn't mean it's impossible to "hack".

OpenBSD is designed and written with security in mind, fom the ground up. You can check out the project's goals and security concepts here:

http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html
http://www.openbsd.org/security.html

By now you should be getting the feeling that OpenBSD is pretty well documented. And you'd be right. It is.

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Secondly, I want to buy the best computer that I can buy to put Open BSD OS on...
Again, the hardware that OpenBSD runs on is well documented. A little look around the website gives:

http://www.openbsd.org/plat.html

You probably want i386 or amd64, so click those and you'll see the supported hardware. No real recommendations here sorry.

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if it was YOU, and your main computer needs were:

Open BSD OS do all of THIS?
All of the answers as to whether the tasks you've listed are possible are in either the official home page, the FAQ or elsewhere. Again, you're going to need to hunt a lot of this down one by one and play with it until you get it right. But yes, what you've listed is possible. Opera does Flash on YouTube just fine under Linux emulation. I've had mixed success with gnash.

The available software for OpenBSD comes from ports or packages. You can find all the software available to be installed from ports here:

http://openports.se/

And you'll find that a heap of open-source projects/packages that run on Linux will also run on OpenBSD. Read the FAQ to understand ports/packages, how to install them, etc........... it's all there written waiting for you!

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Do you think that a total Linux newbie might be able to understand it?
I've read it and it's a good book, but in order to make such a dramatic change of operating systems and mindsets to UNIX land, and even to understand most of that book, you will need a basic grounding in UNIX and how it does things. Again, you can find all this for free on Google.

Again, I can't really make further hardware recommendations over what the link I gave you earlier says.

Also, don't be disheartened by all this. It's a steep learning curve ahead of you, but you'll be rewarded in turn by a simply fantastic operating system.

It's up to you how dedicated and keen you are. Read, play, break, read, break, fix.
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