As a newbie, I'm kinda lost in the docs. I don't like to 
post every dumb question online here.

I find, however, that OpenBSD seems to have more, 
clearer (dumbed down) docs on their web site.

So my question is, since OpenBSD uses the NetBSD kernel, 
how safe is it to employ OpenBSD help docs (on stuff like 
ppp, etc) when trying to ramp up on NetBSD? 

I have an opportunity for a career switch in my company. 
In fact, I must switch. My job as Test Engineer is moving 
to Detroit, and I have refused to go. So I must bid on a 
job which remains in Kalamazoo. I'm a shoe in for a 
position to set up, from scratch, a database system for 
our quality department. The powers that be will probably 
insist on using Windows 2000. But if I am doing the work, 
I could parallel it with a near-identical setup on BSD. 
If I stuck with MySQL, Perl, TCL, etc. -- all ported to 
Win32, it should be doable. Then, later, if (when?) 
Windows 2000 gave us big headaches, I could pop in the 
parallel NetBSD setup. If it worked, nobody would squawk.

But...I fear to get bogged down for lack of familarity 
with NetBSD, since most of the man pages are 
totally written in g(r)eek. The OpenBSD web site has more 
dumbed down instructions. I easliy found and even 
half-way understood the ppp docs at first glance. 

Thanks,

Gan Starling
Kalamazoo MI

PS: I'm still semi-convinced that it is best to run with 
NetBSD since (from a newbie-eye view) it seems closer to 
the roots of UNIX than is OpenBSD (since OpenBSD using 
the NetBSD kernel), and also that NetBSD supports more 
platforms. But I feel a bit more helpless since info, 
instructions, etc appear (maybe just easier to find) more 
abundant on OpenBSD and FreeBSD. But FreeBSD is no-go for 
me since it is i386-only.