Hello All, I hope someone out there has plenty of patience and understanding. I have been playing with open source for a number of years without much success. The closest I have come to success is with Suse 10.2, but it is very unstable. I have mouse freezes, icon disappearances, and at times the screen goes negative on me-white becomes black etc. I have downloaded PCBSD and DesktopBSD to where I had the desktop, but neither would connect to the internet. And I could delete less from these OS than I could from Windows. The smaller and much more secure OpenBSD seemed to fit the bill. However, I need help. Nothing I do seems to work. I have five books on FreeBSD and "Absolute OpenBSD" by Lucas. I can do simple stuff like pwd, cd, ls, mnt CD, etc., but I cannot pkg_add from the 4.3 CD or run executable files. What I would like to do is add a browser and get on the web. My computer needs are small; 95% of my time is following the markets. I do not have three degrees in computer science, in fact I only have one degree and it is in economics. I do well in the market, but BSD really has me confused. I know the OpenBSD community does not like to deal with simpletons like myself, but I would appreciate enough help to get me started. I have OpenBSD on my spare HP Pavilion N5250 notebook with an Intel pentium CPU but it is not connected to the internet.
Thank you.
