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OpenBSD 3.2 Song Now Available

Dan writes "Todd Miller says that the OpenBSD 3.2 song is now available via ftp. The OpenBSD 3.2 song lyrics are also available."

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  1. Is there a Linux song? by samdu · · Score: 2, Funny

    Come on Linus, whip up some Linux tunes goodness. :)

    1. Re:Is there a Linux song? by Rhinobird · · Score: 2, Funny

      I thought he already did...

      "Hi, my name is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux...Linux"

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    2. Re:Is there a Linux song? by vsync64 · · Score: 3, Informative

      Check it out! They sampled Linus for the techno remix of RMS's free software song!

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    3. Re:Is there a Linux song? by badzilla · · Score: 2, Informative

      IBM have a great version, complete with animated chain gang penguins ... unfortunately seems to be broken right now

      Should be here

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    4. Re:Is there a Linux song? by glenstar · · Score: 2
      why-cooperation-with-rms-is-impossible.au???

      The song is lucicrous enough, but the title given it on hackvan is fucking hysterical!

  2. When is Linux going to get a song... by sofist · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It would be nice if Linux would get a release song... Any body wants to do it?

  3. FreeBSD songs by Openadvocate · · Score: 5, Informative

    Or maybe take a look at this The Twelve Days of Code-Freeze

    Or this:
    FreeBSD songbook

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  4. Geekish by jakemus · · Score: 3, Funny

    Isn't this far too geekish for any living creature? When will we see a movie about my microwave oven?

  5. Heh by Ryvar · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The vocalist outperformed the lyricist on this one by a few orders of magnitude, methinks. The last 'gooooooone' bit was amazing considering that she belted that out without even so much as a chuckle at the lyrics she had to sing.

    1. Re:Heh by oever · · Score: 2, Informative
      Onalea is an accomplished musical theatre and symphony concert performer Highlights of her career include Bernstein's MASS with the CPO, and the Western Canadian premieres of Assassins, Into the Woods, and Falsettos.

      source
      a CD featuring Onalea Gilbertson
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  6. wow this is incredibly stupid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    i'm switching back to windows and forgetting about unix. you guys are way to creepy.

    1. Re:wow this is incredibly stupid by Openadvocate · · Score: 5, Funny

      uhm, maybe I should remind you of some fat guy standing on a scene in front of a lot of people at a conference, chanting and dancing.
      (I hadn't anything to do with religion,,,, then again)

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  7. I'm in shock by unsinged+int · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think I speak for a lot of people when I say I thought this was gonna suck, but after downloading it and hearing it, I'm pretty impressed.

    1. Re:I'm in shock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Me too. As an OpenBSD I've been hanging my head in shame at the shear geekiness/hokeyness of a theme song, but this is a pretty impressive. The vocalist is very, very good. Don't get me wrong, I still think the whole idea is silly, but the OpenBSD developers seem to have taken the production quality of their song as seriously as they take the production of their code...

    2. Re:I'm in shock by snake_dad · · Score: 2
      Ha, get the 3.1 song. It rocks :)

      (obligatory karma whoring remark) IT EVEN MENTIONS PENGUINS!

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  8. Metaphor by smithwis · · Score: 2, Funny

    How very appropriate to release the lyrics alongside the song.
    Sort of like a metaphor for the whole opensource thing.

    I guess to much english class makes one read to much into things though.

    1. Re:Metaphor by Joe+Enduser · · Score: 2, Funny

      You had to much english class?

    2. Re:Metaphor by Joe+Enduser · · Score: 3, Funny

      Or maybe I haven't muched English class enough myself.

    3. Re:Metaphor by Andrewkov · · Score: 3, Funny

      No, to open source the songs, they should release the sheet music, and preferably the project file from whatever recording program they used (Cubase, etc). Also they forgot to include the COPYING and README files with the license! ;-)

    4. Re:Metaphor by Moridineas · · Score: 2

      to is a preposition as in "I went to the store"

      What you were looking for is "too" as in "I drank too much milk"

  9. The Free Software Song by RPoet · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There may be no Linux song, but there's definitely a Free Software Song, lovingly performed by RMS.

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    1. Re:The Free Software Song by G-funk · · Score: 5, Funny

      We need a -1 (Dear lord no!) rating

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    2. Re:The Free Software Song by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      That song is the goatse.cx of music!

      Oh, my ears!

  10. It will never be as popular as... by Blackneto · · Score: 2, Funny
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    Ursula Andress, Catherine Deneuve, and Charo, twice...
  11. Barry Manilow's next! by Joe+Enduser · · Score: 5, Funny
    Her name was Lola
    she was a blowfish

    She would firewall and do the ssh ssh ssh-a

    1. Re:Barry Manilow's next! by Jester99 · · Score: 3, Funny

      OK, I'll bite.

      Her name was Lola, she was a blowfish.
      With the armor she would wear, and the spikes way out to there
      She would firewall, and diff any patch at all
      And while she tried to s-s-h, users always typed in 'make'
      Across a crowded server room, they built from 10 til noon
      The code was tight and all secure
      Who could ask for more?

      In the Open (O!), Open B - S - D (Open BSD)
      The meanest server north of Havana (here)
      In the open (O!), Open BSD
      Audits, not crashin', was always the fashion
      In the Ooopen... they typed 'make world'

      (Open... OpenBSD)

      With my sincere apologies to Barry Manilow.

  12. Re:Slashdotted by yeti+(dn) · · Score: 2, Informative

    This this is free. You cannot pirate something free.

    I hope the next time you'll come up with "I don't use the Interent/Slashdot/whatever. The evil hackers use it and that's why drm/tcpa/padallium shit start" and stop offending here.

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  13. Just curious... not intended to flame by Ixe · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does BSD = People with way too much free time?
    I mean, I admire the O/S but the song lol, maybe a lil too much, or maybe I just don't have a good apprecition for this modern genre of "Geek" or maybe it's "Romance" I dunno :)

    I guess I shouldn't be talking about too much free time, here I am posting on /. and running mdk cooker, go figure....

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    1. Re:Just curious... not intended to flame by RazzleDazzle · · Score: 2, Informative
      From http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html

      Lyrics by Ty Semaka. Arranged by Ty Semaka & Jonathan Lewis. Base & drum programming, recording, mixing & mastering by Jonathan Lewis. Vocals by Onalea Gilbertson. Sax by Dan Meichel. Trumpet & Trombone by Craig Soby.

      I don't believe any these are OpenBSD developers, just fans.

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  14. OB /. Poll (Re:Is there a Linux song?) by ShadeARG · · Score: 2, Funny
    • Already got one. Linus pronouncing Linux.
    • Linux don't need no stinking theme song!
    • Linux is song enough, you insensitive clod.
    • CowboyNeal should sing it.
  15. Here's one! by The+Original+Yama · · Score: 2, Funny
    Ding Dong the BSD is dead!
    Which old BSD?
    The wicked BSD!
    Ding Dong the BSD is deaaaad!
    Wake up, sleeping process.
    Rub your eyes,
    Get out of bed.
    Wake up the wicked BSD is deaaaad!
    It's gone where the daemons go,
    Below, below, below
    Yo ho,
    Let's open up and sing!
    And ring the (system) bells out!

    Don't take me seriously, I quite like BSD. Remember, "Wicked" can mean two different things :)

  16. NERDS!! by escchr · · Score: 2, Funny

    i believe Ogre in the movie Nerds said it best. NERDS!!!

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  17. Huh? by Shanep · · Score: 2

    I downloaded the song before the "OpenBSD is ready for download" post was on /.

    So why is the song, suddenly ready for download?

    It's the James Bond'ish, operatic number with the chick with the sexy voice right? Sharp flippers and all that?

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  18. Hurray! by echophase · · Score: 5, Funny

    Developing a BSD-based OS with security in mind = good!
    Sell cds to fund the project = good.
    Release theme song = good?
    Making your users associate your OS with cheesy salsa music = ????

    1. Re:Hurray! by sean23007 · · Score: 2

      5. Profit!

      Oh, wait... that's a different list. Heh.

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      Lack of eloquence does not denote lack of intelligence, though they often coincide.
    2. Re:Hurray! by SoupIsGoodFood_42 · · Score: 2

      Priceless?

  19. obligatory ms bashing by pamri · · Score: 3, Interesting
  20. Re:Linux Song!!!!! (with line formatting) by artificial-intellect · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh, my Tux, my darling
    i've hungered for your drivers
    A long, unix epoch

    Time goes by
    At 1000Hz interrupts
    And time can do so much
    Are you still POSIX?

    I need your stable VM
    I need your kexec
    God speed your async I/O
    to me!

  21. Mabye this was someones signature by voudras · · Score: 2, Funny

    from slashdot - or perhaps i saw it somewhere else - but being that everyone is asking where the linux song is, i thought you all might find this... funny

    to hear the voice of god:
    cat /vmlinuz &> /dev/audio

  22. and now...... by Ishkibble · · Score: 2, Interesting
    here is the counter-part

    Introducing! TUX as the sourcee code

    http://phaseburn.net/tux.html

    sorry if i get ya /.ed davie

  23. But ... by RWarrior(fobw) · · Score: 2

    Where's the Music EULA? How am I supposed to know how many times and on how many machines I'm allowed to play this stuff?

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  24. Windows OS Song by willpost · · Score: 3, Funny

    Doo, doo, doo, Lookin' out my back door.

  25. Re:Features by agentZ · · Score: 3, Funny
    To update your machine to the new song, as root:
    # cd /usr/src
    # patch -p0 < song-3.2
    and then recompile your kernel.
  26. Re:on a more related note by Clover_Kicker · · Score: 4, Informative

    >I read the lyrics for the song and my reaction was
    >"huh?", perhaps the song makes exclusive reference
    >to OpenBSD so much that you would have to be
    >familiar with it to get it?

    The current OpenBSD mascot is a blowfish, so there are a lot of fish references.

    The (wicked cool) art for OpenBSD 3.2 has a James Bond theme.

    OpenBSD art has a recurring theme of foiling "script kitties", so that explains all the cat references.

  27. Is source code avaiable? by FattMattP · · Score: 2

    Hey! Where's the individual tracks and samples so we can make remixes?

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  28. Re:Linux Song!!!!! by Pflipp · · Score: 2

    A different approach:

    And time goes by
    So slowly
    With Microsoft
    Can't do so much
    Are you still more?

    Or, for yer Microsoft geeks:

    Oh my Word
    My Excel
    I've hungered for Microsoft
    A long lonely time
    And Wine does Word
    So slowly
    And Wine
    Can't do so much
    Are you still more?

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  29. Way Cool! by ToasterTester · · Score: 2

    Love 'em especially the Gold Flipper one.

    ~BSD Rocks!

  30. Lyrics by RedSynapse · · Score: 2

    With golden skin and flippers as sharp as a knife
    He's the machine designed to dismember your life
    And the fish protecting us all from the cat
    And the cat infecting the world for a laugh
    Cyborg on a mission to do some perfishin
    The doctor wants foogoo tonight

    You need some machismo to catch the spiky one
    He's got guts and gizmos to make the system run
    (?) flips here for fun
    And without a gun
    He'll dice you with his golden fin

    She's all over puff cause he's such a sexy catch
    Is she spying on him? Or just a seafood match?
    Oh double seven, send me to heaven
    Cause for mister pun the women are fun
    She knows what to do
    She'll turn gold to goo
    Gold flipper is gone
    Gold flipper is gone

  31. Re:I prefer the VAX song by trb · · Score: 2

    Credit where it's due. The original version of God Rest ye CS Students was written in the mid-1970s, for the PDP10 at Worcester Tech, along with a bunch of other hacker songs.

  32. BSD, Open BSD by j3110 · · Score: 2

    did anyone else think the song sounded a LOT like bond theme music?

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    1. Re:BSD, Open BSD by snake_dad · · Score: 2

      It does? Good catch! Funny... The 3.1 song sounds a lot like Rammstein. Thought it was a coincidence. Could not find a reference to the 3.0 song, it's crap anyway.

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