Unfortunately people have been brainwashed with the windows way, being a *nix 
user myself I loved how simple OpenBSD was to setup, but I couldn't picture a 
complete newbie doing it.

On Monday 31 October 2005 06:12 pm, Will H. Backman wrote:
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> > Gareth Nelson
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> > Subject: Re: a truly openbsd day
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> > OpenBSD is great for those who understand how to use it, but not for
> > newbies.
>
> Actually, in the Unix class that I teach at a University, OpenBSD was
> very good for newbies.  If you plan to learn Unix instead of trying to
> emulate the Windows way of doing things, OpenBSD is great.  The
> documentation is good, and the system has been very consistent over
> time.  Given a range of basic Unix tasks, and groups of students with
> different versions of Unix-like operating systems, groups with OpenBSD
> do quite well.

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