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OpenBSD 3.3 Song

Posted by timothy on from the marching-as-to-war dept.

flynn_nrg writes "Even although version 3.3 is not out yet, users can already enjoy the new 3.3 song: "Puff the Barbarian". Like other Barbarians before him, Puff has had to face some pretty crazy challenges. This song is an allegory of the recent difficulties we went through dealing with Sun, who refused our request for documentation about their UltraSPARC III processors. We want documentation, because these are the fastest processors with a per-page eXecute bit in the MMU, needed to fully support our new W^X security feature. In the meantime, the AMD Hammer has come onto the scene, and this processor supports an eXecute bit in 64-bit mode. And it is going to be faster... Both mp3 and ogg versions available."

5 of 30 comments (clear)

  1. Free music download? by dotgod · · Score: 3, Funny

    You pirates just wait until the RIAA hears about this...

  2. Doesn't work on Windows. by Daphnee+Ewald · · Score: 3, Funny

    I tried playing the download on my Windows XP machine, but every time I do I get this screen going flashing by saying something about "free software related file identified -- launching propaganda" and it starts playing some .NET advertizement instead.

  3. Oh fuck by PD · · Score: 1, Funny

    Geeks definitely should not sing. There is a reason why Fox will never have a show called "Geek Idol".

    --
    If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
  4. No ID3 tags by Yonder+Way · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anyone else find it annoying that the OpenBSD songs don't have ID3 tags giving proper attribution?

    I thought the whole point of using a BSD license over public domain was that BSD license gives credit.

  5. Where is the source by vesamies · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was able to listen to the song in my pc ok, but how do I build it from source? Where are the makefiles?