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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."

4 of 30 comments (clear)

  1. Scott McNealy: all alone and only bones by ubiquitin · · Score: 5, Informative

    At the tower Puff appealed
    For the wisdom of the One
    Denied, his mind did reel
    Puff was getting tired of Sun

    Broke down the guard
    Cause math is hard
    Found McNealy on his throne
    All alone and only bones

    Come the Sun King blade ablur
    Hammer down eclipse the Sun
    And Puff, the land secured
    The new King Barbarian!

    We already know that Hammer will wipe Sun off the map, oh wait, I forgot that Sun's messaging software will save the day. heh Probably just like their Linux distro showed the world how hip they could be to open source.

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    http://tinyurl.com/4ny52
  2. check it out. by 7-Vodka · · Score: 2, Informative

    I really really liked their 3.0 and 3.1 release songs. Systemagic and E-Railed. They're on the same page as the 3.3. What awesome promo for their most righteous OS. GG guys!

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    Liberty.

  3. Already on /. by mirabilos · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think it's pretty pointless that this is already
    on slashdot. Please give the mirrors time to update,
    and get the songs afterwards.

    $ cvs -qd mirbsd-cvs@bsdadvocacy.org:/cvs co -PA src/share/misc/contrib

    will get you all of the songs 3.0 - 3.3 in the MP3
    versions, with lyrics. And I uploaded that back over
    my 16K link.

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    My Karma isn't excellent, damn it! (And /. still does not get UTF-8 right in 2012. Wow.)
  4. Re:No ID3 tags by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    > Do you *want* ID3-tagged MP3's or would you prefer to leave them as-is?

    I do not want them.

    There are still some players that dislike them.

    The song is free. If it was not free, it would not be on our CD.

    I pay money to make sure it is free.

    taken from misc@