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Low End BSD shares one *nix newbie's adventures installing and learning OpenBSD on an old PC as Dirk Pilat , who recently moved from London to New Zealand, get his feet wet.

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• Off the Net and back on again, 2002.06.14. Stinker loses his connection to the Internet - and gets it back again.
• On the Net with OpenBSD, 2002.06.06. Stinker is finally connected to the Internet and able to browse.
• Good-bye Slackware Linux, hello OpenBSD, 2002.05.24. Admitting Slackware was a mistake, our *nix newbie discovers OpenBSD and has a working system in no time.
• Going nowhere fast, 2002.05.20. One step forward, at least one step back with Slackware Linux.
• Learning Linux on a PC?, Down But Not Out, Low End Mac, 2002.05.17. Why in the world is Dirk running Linux on an ugly beige Pentium box?
• More Linux baby steps, 2002.05.09. Linux up and running for a while, then refusing to boot.
• Linux baby steps, 2002.05.07. A Linux newbie tries to learn Linux and gets BasicLinux up and running.

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