Re: basics

thanks for the info, once you install openbsd can you update/upgrade it later
on with the newer version that is released, with out loosing anything? is it
a fairly straight forward thing to do? 
do you still have to run a "software" firewall with bsd, or is one built
into the bsd program itself? also what about anti-virus software? i dont
think its required but now's the time to ask. I dont spose anybody that has
openbsd wants to try downloading mt4 
http://www2.interbankfx.com/ibs/welcome.php?group=CFOSFX
demo account, just to see if it downloads and loads up, then obviously
delate the program after and report back, it would save me installing
openbsd and finding out MT4 does load? id be very greatful if anybody was
willing to do this and im sure new ppl to the forum later on would be most
greatful as well. 
The comments made to go  have a look at "i386-laptops.html " excuse my
ignorance on this one, is this on this forum website? or do i cut n paste
that 386 into my browser? thanks everybody coming down to my "basic" level
its all part of learning and i appreciate it. 


Ian Darwin wrote:
> 
>> Welcome to the nerdly and crochety OpenBSD community!
>>
> Like the man said, welcome aboard!
>>> First is: can openbsd be installed on the run the mill pc or laptop 
>>> that you
>>> buy in the shops that normally runs windows or on the other side a 
>>> second
>>> hand apple laptop with no OS.
>> Yes and yes.
> With caveats: some laptops have kinky devices that aren't supported, 
> either because
> they are new, or because the manufacturers suck (e.g., won't give us 
> documentation).
> Go to the web site and look at the i386-laptops.html for representative 
> results.
>>>  what do you
>>> use as a browser for openbsd,
>>
> Many use Seamonkey, others including me use Firefox, some use Opera but 
> that requires
> adding on the Linux emulation package.
>> OpenOffice.
> Yup. I've been using that one for a while. And OOo3 has just been added 
> to our ports
> tree.
>>
>>>  Last one is can you run MT4 trading platform in
>>> openbsd? as i know MT4 is designed for windows. Id very greatful for 
>>> some
>>> answers as im on a learnign curve here. thanks.
>>>  
> No idea. Third-party software falls into two categories; open source and 
> closed source.
> Of the tens of thousands of popular open source solutions out there, the 
> approximate five
> thousand that out people use are in our ports/packages system. Most are 
> available
> pre-compiled as "packages" so you don't have to compile them yourself 
> (though you can if
> you really want to, using "ports" instead). Some are only in ports for 
> various reasons,
> usually licensing. Other open-source ones can usually be made to run by 
> a programmer.
> 
> The closed-source software - which includes most MS-Windows software - 
> leaves you
> at the mercy of the software vendor.
> 
> That said, there are solutions that let you run MS-Windows under 
> OpenBSD, such as
> qemu, but I don't know if they're solid enough to run a business or 
> trading on.
> 
> 
> 

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