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OpenBSD 3.2 Song Now Available

Posted by michael on from the that's-right-we-said-'song' dept.

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. 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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  2. 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?

  3. 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.

  4. 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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  5. 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...

  6. 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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    "Oppression and harassment is a small price to pay to live in the land of the free." -- Montgomery Burns.
    1. Re:The Free Software Song by G-funk · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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      Send lawyers, guns, and money!
  7. 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

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    Have Linux installed at your place in Amsterdam, for cheap
    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.

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

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

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  9. 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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    Sigs pose an operational security risk and help the baddies aggregate data. I guess commenting does too, oops.
  10. 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 = ????

  11. 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! ;-)

  12. obligatory ms bashing by pamri · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The 'Reinstalling Windows' Song

  13. 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!

  14. 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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    TO BUY A NEW CAR WOULD MAKE YOU SEXUALLY ATTRACTIVE.
  15. Windows OS Song by willpost · · Score: 3, Funny

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

  16. 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.
  17. 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.