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I have no networking or Unix experience but am very interested in OpenBSD. It's a Canadian opensource operating system and is purported to be the most secure operating system available.

Does anyone have suggestions for books, learning materials, for learning Unix and the various servers available?

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Where did you hear that OpenBSD is Canadian? o_O – Sasha Chedygov Jul 12 '10 at 8:27
@musicfreak Don't be silly; all good things are Canadian! ;-) – squircle Jul 13 '10 at 2:19
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The project is based in Canada, that doesn't really give a piece of software a nationality though. Developers contrib from all over the world. – John T Jul 13 '10 at 2:36
It does not get any better than this openbsd.org/faq/index.html – mugen kenichi Jul 22 '10 at 13:00
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It's a Canadian opensource operating system

It's international, like any big opensource project, but that's not the point :-)

Did you bother to open http://openbsd.org/ and look for useful resources there?

The main page has a whole section with useful links to documentation, including a list of suggested books.

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Yes, I did bother to check openbsd.org and saw some interesting books suggested there. I was hoping that here might be some informed people here willing to give constructive advise and perhaps recommend or confirm suggestions for material on that site or any other books useful to a Unix beginner (would be hobbyist). – bsdnewbie Jul 12 '10 at 11:16
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"Absolute OpenBSD: UNIX for the Practical Paranoid" by Michael Lucas was fun to read. And the man pages. The OpenBSD team puts a lot of effort into having great manpages. – vtest Jul 13 '10 at 2:48
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If you want a serious book recommendation for OpenBSD, I'd check out Absolute OpenBSD: UNIX for the practical paranoid.. It's written by highly acclaimed author Michael Lucas who's written some other big titles from Open Starch Press. It's from around 2003 but still contains very valid information and is recommended on the OpenBSD website itself.

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I have been using OpenBSD since version 3.0. I highly recommend you simply dive right into it/install it—after reading the excellent FAQ on the web site twice of course. Once installed, type “man afterboot” and starting reading the excellent man (online manual) pages. Unlike Linux, the man pages in OpenBSD are quite good.

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If you never tasted BSD or Linux before, I highly recommend you to start with Ubuntu Linux.

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