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The OpenBSD 3.4 Song: Theo Sings Back-up

shking writes "Theo has pre-released the OpenBSD 3.4 song. It was written, arranged & recorded by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis of the Plaid Tongued Devils. You can find the new song at www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html. Enjoy."

206 comments

  1. Google Cache by Sir+Haxalot · · Score: 0, Redundant
    --
    I have over 70 freaks, do you?
    1. Re:Google Cache by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      wtf good does that do?

  2. Just more evidence... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ...that BSD is dead.

  3. ur ghey by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fuck you all

    ps fp!uj

    1. Re:ur ghey by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Seriously though, a theme song?

      Damn these people need Girlfriends or hobbies or paying jobs or some god damn thing!

  4. w00t w00t! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fpfpfpfp

  5. Old Joke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    hehehe, reminds me of an old joke:

    What do call a group of bsd enthusiasts?

    Timothy's anal train!

    1. Re:Old Joke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      The actual joke is:

      Q: What do you call a gathering of *BSD enthusiasts?

      A: A funeral.

      *BSD is dying.

  6. Sing it with the BSD Babe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

    You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. Even this old bearded Unix guru is apparently unable to take his eyes off her!

    With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Look! This guy can't get in there fast enough with her in the doorway! Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

    1. Re:Sing it with the BSD Babe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

      mmmmmmm....

      *drool*

      *whacks off*

    2. Re:Sing it with the BSD Babe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm sure if linux didn't suck(or made them do it) chicks would be happy to run around dressed like penguins

    3. Re:Sing it with the BSD Babe... by keester · · Score: 2

      That dude with the spinny hat rocks!

      Red, you're my boy!

      --
      Take it easy? I'll take it anyway I can get it . . .
    4. Re:Sing it with the BSD Babe... by RighteousFunby · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm sure I saw that post somewhere else...I mean, I'm sure I've seen those li...GUH?!

      booooobiiiieeeessssssssss....

      (wipes drool from keyboard)

      Erm, yeah, well, you proved your goddamn point. HAPPY!?

    5. Re:Sing it with the BSD Babe... by drinkypoo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Open Source babes? I don't know about you but no one has provided me with her fully-mapped genome yet. We know she's not GPL, so it's not just people who are getting the binary distribution who are entitled to the source...

      --
      "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
    6. Re:Sing it with the BSD Babe... by proj_2501 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I was not expected that sig, but:

      EZ SAY HO!

      Yes, mod me offtopic, I deserve it. I can take it.

    7. Re:Sing it with the BSD Babe... by Wakko+Warner · · Score: 0

      You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her [hope-2000.org]!

      You're new here, aren't you?

      - A.P.

      --
      "Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
    8. Re:Sing it with the BSD Babe... by RighteousFunby · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      I am a reel big fan of yogurt enemas and chili chips LONG LIVE MY DICK!

      If you don't know WTF we're on about, haul yourself over here.

    9. Re:Sing it with the BSD Babe... by gl4ss · · Score: 1

      yeah well..

      it's a quite bitchy deal really.

      we men would like to give our (partial)source to anyone but when you get some contribution back from women it's something totally different and eats half your salary for the rest of your life

      --
      world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
    10. Re:Sing it with the BSD Babe... by Gogl · · Score: 2, Funny

      Pshah, Linux geeks may not have real babes but they do have Photoshop and/or the GIMP.

    11. Re:Sing it with the BSD Babe... by t0qer · · Score: 1, Funny

      This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox

      Notice where his hand is? Me thinks he *IS* creaming his pants.
    12. Re:Sing it with the BSD Babe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

      Not that I wouldn't mind having those girls, but I've had more pretty one (yes, a NetBSD girl) :P People drool too much over girls.

    13. Re:Sing it with the BSD Babe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      woah that cameltoe is like running perl on a BSD box!

    14. Re:Sing it with the BSD Babe... by linzeal · · Score: 1
      Is she even 18?

      I get a queer feeling looking at her.

    15. Re:Sing it with the BSD Babe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You get a queer feeling because you are a homosexual Linux user.

    16. Re:Sing it with the BSD Babe... by AlanS2002 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Damn, that is one fine chick. Chicks like this make me want to use BSD more.

      --
      Not all conservatives are stupid,
      but it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
      - Hume
    17. Re:Sing it with the BSD Babe... by Ceren · · Score: 1
      Yeah, but I can't sing worth a %$*@. :)

      (linzeal: I'm 23 now.)

      back to lurkland.

      people just keep forwarding me this stuff.

    18. Re:Sing it with the BSD Babe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      haiku

      flask of ripe urine
      pressed to bsd lips
      bsd drink up

    19. Re:Sing it with the BSD Babe... by panda · · Score: 1

      You missed this one.

      --
      Just be sure to wear the gold uniform when you beam down -- you know what happens when you wear the red one.
    20. Re:Sing it with the BSD Babe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      bsd haiku

      flask of ripe urine
      pressed to bsd lips
      bsd drink up

    21. Re:Sing it with the BSD Babe... by proj_2501 · · Score: 1

      only if it's ABE VIGODA'S urine, baby!

    22. Re:Sing it with the BSD Babe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The way I analyze the situation, it is all very simple: *BSD is dead.

  7. huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    eh?

  8. Theo says: how to be American! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    HOWTO: Be an American
    Version 1.0 / M

    America, eh folks? It's a pretty screwed up place. Unfortunately, but not indefinitely, the USA's weapons of mass destruction make it the most powerful country in the world (militarily). As a result, it helps to be aware of American society and fit into it, and our quick 8-step guide should have you on the path to burger-munching enlightenment.

    1 - Buy yourself a gun
    To become a fully-fledged Yank, you'll need to get a weapon. Americans think that having more killing machines magically makes their country safer, and it helps them to walk around saying "I'll put a cap in your ass". Even though the concept of "no guns = no gun-related crimes" is alien to the average Yank, it'll give you a false sense of security in this country with the highest crime rates in the developed world.

    2 - Put on at least 25 stone
    Skinny? Medium? Chubby? That won't cut it in the good ol' US of A. Because America has the highest obesty levels on the planet, you'll need to get those rolls of flab built up. Eating 18 waffles with Maple syrup for breakfast (and visiting Burger King five times in a day) is all natural when much of the world is suffering massive poverty. Get fat and fit in.

    3 - Learn the lingo
    We've talked about issues affecting society, but on a personal level you'll need more knowledge (or ignorance as it may be) to fit in. First, forget proper English. Confuse "your" with "you're". Say "must of" instead of "must have". Whenever anything interesting occurs, say "shucks" repeatedly. Instead of clever spontaneity or witty insults, call people "asswipes". It's funny!

    4 - Throw away all maps, history books etc.
    To really feel a part of American society, you must lose all knowledge of the world. Forget where Poland is. Scrap your knowledge of the lengthy Chinese history. Make cretinous remarks like "India? Is that in Africa?". Because ALL that matters is America, and it doesn't matter how pathetic you look to educated people the world over.

    5 - Become totally irrational and nonsensical
    Spout on about the Constitution, and then make drastic changes to it. Talk about "freedom of speech" and watch TV programmes about the Ku Klux Klan. Rant on about market freedom, and sit back as companies run riot and destroy the economy with their anti-competitive practices. Essentially, act idiotic at all times.

    6 - Sue everyone you ever meet
    The USA doesn't produce many decent quality products, so the society is crumbling into a litigation-happy joke. With so many jobs going overseas to talented workers, your only option left is to start legal proceedings. About anything. Someone step on your toe? Get some hotshot downtown lawyer to sue their ass!

    7 - Get a "shrink"
    Americans have a hard time dealing with their own problems in a mature manner, and prefer to spend hundreds of dollars sitting in front of someone and whinging. However trivial your problems may be, blast them out like a baby!

    8 - Watch abysmal TV
    Forget educational programmes and incisive documentaries. Your ideal night in is with your gun, six cheeseburgers and a Friends box set. Watch as some over-paid talentless "actor" enters the scene, and whoop and scream hysterically as he delivers some ridiculously poor wisecrack.

    So there you have it! Those 8 steps should have you killing innocent people, piling on pounds and acting like a moron in no time. America awaits you, brave hero! Just get out before it collapses in disarray.

    END

    1. Re:Theo says: how to be American! by Dehumanizer · · Score: 1

      I don't think Theo said or wrote that. :)

      It's, however, absolutely true...

      --
      The Tlog - a technology blog
    2. Re:Theo says: how to be American! by I8TheWorm · · Score: 1


      Your darned tootin it is.... asswipe.
      <\american>

      --
      Saying Android is a family of phones is akin to saying Linux is a family of PCs.
    3. Re:Theo says: how to be American! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      "It's, however, absolutely true..."

      Yes and all Brits have bad teeth
      all of the French smell and are assholes
      The russians are a bunch of alcoholics and thieves
      and of course the Irish are a bunch of drunks as well. At least the Russians were productive at some point in their history.
      Don't get me started on the Polish.

      Go ahead tell me what culture you are. I'll be sure to list a bunch of things that are "absolutely true" about it as well.

      Moron.

    4. Re:Theo says: how to be American! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Brits have bad teeth"

      "French smell and are assholes"

      What a clever, witty and incisive response. Totally worthy of your country. Instead of refuting the points with accuracy and style, you fall apart straight away. This is why the world thinks so badly of Americans.

    5. Re:Theo says: how to be American! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm a New Zealander, and we don't have any untrue stereotypes.

      'Scuse me, my sheep needs me.

    6. Re:Theo says: how to be American! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I live in Los Angeles (and make more money than you), and have NEVER heard anybody ever say "shucks" and be serious about it. You gotta do some research man.

    7. Re:Theo says: how to be American! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      shucks! shucks!shucks!shucks!

    8. Re:Theo says: how to be American! by hesiod · · Score: 1

      > This is why the world thinks so badly of Americans.

      Because we respond in the same manner we are attacked? That's why America thinks so badly of Snotty Europeans (not all of them, just the uppity double-standard jerks, like you).

    9. Re:Theo says: how to be American! by jo42 · · Score: 1

      > how to be American

      - Get fat
      - Get stupid

      Order doesn't matter...

    10. Re:Theo says: how to be American! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      It is official. Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dying

      One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

      You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

      FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.

      Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

      OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

      Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

      All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among hobbyist dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Absolutely nothing short of a miracle could save *BSD at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

      Fact: *BSD is dying

    11. Re:Theo says: how to be American! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's not fair. You paint with too broad a brush.

  9. Open source song... by DrFlex · · Score: 2, Insightful


    After some tinkering from the community this might actually make the Billboard Top 20.

    1. Re:Open source song... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, but it will doubtless remain one of the most pointless exercises in geek futility ever.

    2. Re:Open source song... by inertia187 · · Score: 1

      Yeah, well I still think this is the most pointless exercises in geek futility ever. But hey, what's the point in being a geek at all if you can't have fun doing it?

      --
      A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
  10. sort of ironic by squarefish · · Score: 2, Funny

    so I switched from my favorite web radio station to listen to this and I thought it sounded like a children's song. so I went back to the station and this was playing.

    I've never heard this song before, but it seemed much more appropriate in my opinion ;)

    --
    Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
    1. Re:sort of ironic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What station do you listen to? What station plays Bill gates must die?

    2. Re:sort of ironic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      besides having it clearly listed in the previous post, it's revolvingradio.net

      it's usally that or digitalgunfire.com

    3. Re:sort of ironic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Is it availible on AM radio for those of us with dial up and a 41 year old Chevrolet?

  11. umm, bittorrent? by yo5oy · · Score: 3, Funny

    so where is the bittorrent link?

    --
    a slut did tulsa
  12. This one is my favourite. by dnaumov · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This one is no doubt my favourite OpenBSD song so far. BTW, did anyone else find similarities between the "rap part" of the song and some Eminem track (can't remember the name) ? Same rhythm and rhymes sounded the same (different words, obviously). Was that on purpose or just a pure coincidence ?

    1. Re:This one is my favourite. by GreatOgre · · Score: 1

      I think I like "Systemagic" better.

  13. No way... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    News must be lacking today....

  14. First Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How exciting

  15. Kojak is back? by adeyadey · · Score: 1

    Blimey for a moment I thought Theo Kojak was back, singing "If.."

    Who luvs ya baby..

    --
    "You lied to me! There is a Swansea!"
  16. hrm. by dieman · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    yeah, right, your going to convince me to stop listening to Music that Doesn't Suck for some theo song?

    --
    -- dieman - Scott Dier
    1. Re:hrm. by u-235-sentinel · · Score: 1

      Wait a sec... Theo can sing? :-)

      --
      Has Comcast disconnected your Internet account? Same here. You can read about it at http://comcastissue.blogspot.com
  17. What is in that enterance exam? by RevMike · · Score: 4, Funny
    I know you need to pass an "entrance exam" in order to be part of OpenBSD, but I didn't realize that the exam was to insure that your are nuts!

    You people are so silly. These sorts of things take away time that could be better spent discussing vi vs. emacs, Linux vs. Gnu/Linux, and Kirk vs. Picard.

    1. Re:What is in that enterance exam? by 1s44c · · Score: 1

      These sorts of things take away time that could be better spent discussing vi vs. emacs, Linux vs. Gnu/Linux, and Kirk vs.

      vi
      Gnu/Linux
      Kirk

      Now stop asking questions, I'm trying to write songs here.

    2. Re:What is in that enterance exam? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      vi
      Gnu/Linux
      Kirk

      Thanks, but the general practice is to list the winners, not the losers.

    3. Re:What is in that enterance exam? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Motherfucker,

      vi
      Linux
      Picard

      thanks, please die now.

    4. Re:What is in that enterance exam? by mvw · · Score: 1
      could could be better spent discussing vi vs. emacs, Linux vs. Gnu/Linux, and Kirk vs. Picard

      • Emacs
      • FreeBSD
      • T'Pol
      • Eclipse

      Regards,
      Marc

    5. Re:What is in that enterance exam? by Diamon · · Score: 4, Funny

      Request for clarification:

      Do you want to insure your nuts or ensure you are nuts?

      Nasty little Freudian slip using "your"

    6. Re:What is in that enterance exam? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Elegy For *BSD


      I am a *BSD user
      and I try hard to be brave
      That is a tall order
      *BSD's foot is in the grave.

      I tap at my toy keyboard,
      and whistle a happy tune
      but keeping happy's so hard,
      *BSD died so soon.

      Each day I wake and softly sob
      Nightfall finds me crying
      Not only am I a zit faced slob
      but *BSD is dying.

  18. Good thing... by inertia187 · · Score: 1

    It's a good thing the "humor" icon was used in this article. Otherwise, I wouldn't have known what to think about this. "It's funny, laugh." Good advice.

    --
    A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
    1. Re:Good thing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      "It's funny, laugh." Good advice.

      I tried really hard,
      but in the end all I could see,
      was a deep dark casm of hopelessness,
      I found myself in despair for the future of mankind,
      and reached for a knife then as I thrust it deep into my gut,
      I realised it was a joke,
      but it was too late,
      and the joke was on me,
      I had expired before BSD.

  19. Don't forget the GNU song! by mccrew · · Score: 3, Informative
    Don't forget the GNU Free Software Song.

    Those of you with a weak stomach might not want to click on Stallman singing.

    --
    Hey, Windows users, there is no such thing as "forward" slash, there is only slash and backslash.
    1. Re:Don't forget the GNU song! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Where's the "YOUR SIG SUCKS!" troll when we need him?

    2. Re:Don't forget the GNU song! by FatalTourist · · Score: 3, Funny

      Please forget the GNU Free Software Song song!

      --


      Escape Pod Films: Sketch Comedy and Web Series
    3. Re:Don't forget the GNU song! by Media+Tracker · · Score: 4, Funny

      jwz calls that song "Why cooperation with RMS is impossible", and points to a techno and a death metal remixes.

      MT

    4. Re:Don't forget the GNU song! by dmayle · · Score: 1

      Hey, Windows users, there is no such thing as "forward" slash, there is only slash and backslash.

      Hey, American Linux users, there is no such thing as "back" slash, there is only slash and antislash.

      *Ducks*

    5. Re:Don't forget the GNU song! by SeaEye420 · · Score: 1

      While I agree that the RMS version is pretty bad, this version is much better.

      --
      Wort Wort Wort!
    6. Re:Don't forget the GNU song! by mccrew · · Score: 1
      Hey, American Linux users, there is no such thing as "back" slash, there is only slash and antislash.

      So would that be aitch-tee-tee-pee-colon-antislash-antislash dubya-dubya-dubya-dot-antislashdot-dot-com?

      --
      Hey, Windows users, there is no such thing as "forward" slash, there is only slash and backslash.
    7. Re:Don't forget the GNU song! by dmayle · · Score: 1

      Well, if you want to get technical, it would be osh-tay-tay-pay-deuh-pwon-deuh-slash dobla-vay-dobla-vay-dobla-vay-pwon-slashdot-pwon-c om... :)

    8. Re:Don't forget the GNU song! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
      Fact: *BSD is dying

      It is common knowledge that *BSD is dying, that ever hapless *BSD is mired in an irrecoverable and mortifying tangle of fatal trouble. It is perhaps anybody's wild guess as to which *BSD is the worst off of an admittedly suffering *BSD community. The numbers continue to decline for *BSD but FreeBSD may be hurting the most. Look at the numbers. The erosion of user base for FreeBSD continues in a head spinning downward spiral.

      OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of BSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

      Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

      All major marketing surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among hobbyist dilettante dabblers. In truth, for all practical purposes *BSD is already dead. It is a dead man walking.

      Fact: *BSD is dying

    9. Re:Don't forget the GNU song! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If you want to hear it in Dutch, please check out this.

  20. Free Software Song by iantri · · Score: 1

    For everyone sake (and to preserve everyone's sanity) I certainly hope this isn't like RMS's free software song!

    1. Re:Free Software Song by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      way to repeat what mccrew just said, asshole

    2. Re:Free Software Song by iantri · · Score: 1
      Please calm down. If you'll note, he posted at 5:14PM. I posted at 5:16PM. When I first loaded the page, he hadn't even posted yet. Therefore, I never saw his comment.

      Summary: It was a coincidence.

  21. Try shoutcast by Michael+Crutcher · · Score: 1

    I'm sure most people know this by now, but if you're looking for web radio, www.shoutcast.com is a great place to look.
    They have everything broken down by category and sub-category so you'll be able to find something you like.

  22. How about a Slashdot survey? by bunyip · · Score: 3, Funny

    This new story could have been a great lead-in:

    How long before the RIAA finds this MP3 on your hard drive and sues you?

    Better yet, how about a song praising Linux, then ask:

    Who sues you first?

    1) RIAA
    2) SCO
    3) Cowboy Neal

    This story could have so much mileage...

    1. Re:How about a Slashdot survey? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
      Fact: *BSD is dying

      It is now official. Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dying

      One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

      You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

      FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.

      Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

      OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

      Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

      All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

      Fact: *BSD is dying

  23. This is bad. by m.e.l.l.e.n.t.i.n.e · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... and just when you thought bsd couldn't get anymore homosexual.

    "Hey!! Let's write stupid songs based on our mascot. Doesn't that sound like a winner?"

    Meanwhile, back in Redmond...

    Bill Gates laughs hysterically and then goes back to swimming in his pool filled with $100 bills.

    Trust me... I've seen it.

    --

    Producer: NEXT!!
    Ralph Wiggum: Chicken necks
    1. Re:This is bad. by EllF · · Score: 1

      So, you know the sexuality of operating systems and spend time with scantily-clad male executives? Hey, whatever does it for you...

      --
      We who were living are now dying
      With a little patience
    2. Re:This is bad. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That didn't even make any sense.

      Go home.

  24. Wonder if the Windows 2K version goes ... by merdaccia · · Score: 1


    Sir Clippy of Twokay was swearin'
    Through the forests of Washingtonhood
    Cause none of these lusers
    could friggin spell "users"
    And disabled his dumb ass for good.


    Damn I need more coffee...

    --

    *blinking cursor*

  25. Mirrors by beaverbrother · · Score: 1

    For those who cant download the songs, the OpenBsd mirrors mirror the songs now, in addition to openbsd.
    Heres one mirror:
    http://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/OpenBSD/songs/

  26. Message from SCO legal department by silicon+not+in+the+v · · Score: 1, Funny

    We have detected some SCO IP illegally used in your recently released "OpenBSD Song". The musical note designated by the letter C is the property of SCO, as evidenced in its usage in our company name, which is copyrighted, and in our company song, "C Us Sue the Hell Out of U". You must cease and desist from publishing this song or pay the licensing fee of $699/instance of the C note in your song.

    --
    We may experience some slight turbulence and then...explode. -Capt. Mal Reynolds
  27. How? by deadgoon42 · · Score: 0, Troll

    How did this make the front page? Someone should tell CowboyNeal to update the catagories so we can opt out of OpenBSD song announcements.

    --

    Smeghead every day of the week.
    1. Re:How? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Look at the other article titles today. A good chuckle just can't go wrong.

      I think Linux people are just feeling left out. Maybe they can enlist Linus and Alan Cox's help for a more inclusive song in the next release =) They can release it under a dual license. I'll buy that CD for sure =)

  28. The Microsoft Song by GillBates0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Stolen from:
    http://www.hamline.edu/~wnk/humor/microsoft .html

    I Am The Very Model of a Microsoft Executive
    (By Brad Rhodes, with inspiration from Lincoln Spector's "The Pirates of
    Pentium" and apologies to Sir William Gilbert...)

    Bill Gates:
    I am the very model of a Microsoft Executive
    Work sixteen hours ev'ry shift on days that are consecutive
    I make a line of software that is of the highest quality
    But leave in bugs to fix in upgrades in perpetuality

    Though some might claim that we compete in ways that are not very just
    That's just vindictive rumor spun by folks who can't compete with us
    Besides they cannot prove a thing, no judge will ever take their side
    We'll crush them with our lawyers known for litigation far and wide.

    Men's Chourus:
    He'll crush them with his lawyers known for litigation far and far and wide!

    Gates:
    My coders work a schedule bordering on impropriety
    But they'll still work for peanuts til they're vested in entirety
    I'm sure that you will all agree that this is all inde-cu-tive
    That I'm the very model of a Microsoft Executive!

    Chorus:
    I'm sure that you will all agree that this is all inde-cu-tive
    He is the very model of a Microsoft Executive!

    Gates:
    We made our windows system one which we hold in propriety
    And tweak it every now and then to screw up Lotus 1-2-3
    Developing for Windows makes our competition often frown
    They haven't any choice -- our system is the only game in town.

    We'll use people's inventions that will make our software sell the best
    Idea is the first step but the market is the real test
    And though we may use other's thoughts and intellectual property
    Stealing's such a nasty word, we like to call it R&D.

    Chorus:
    Stealing's such a nasty word, he likes to call it R&-R&D.

    Gates [faster]:
    My business tactics are compared with Henry Ford and Genghis Kahn
    They built me up from nerdy kid to billionaire and then beyond
    And while my competition spews out words full of invec-u-tive
    I am the very model of a Microsoft Executive!

    Chorus:
    And while his competition spews out words full of invec-u-tive
    He is the very model of a Microsoft Executive!

    --
    An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
  29. Weird Theo by FrostedWheat · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not bad at all, these songs are getting better. Good work guys!! The bit that caught my attention was in the middle. Sounded like something Weird Al would make!

    Now if only we can get the Linux developers drunk at a karaoke bar ...

    1. Re:Weird Theo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
      BSD you grow in the ghetto, living second rate
      And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate.
      The places you play and where you stay
      Looks like one great big alley way.
      You'll admire all the numberbook takers,
      Thugs, BSD pimps and pushers, and the big money makers.
  30. You mean this one? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    hi, my name is...what? my name is...who? my name is...Bruce Perens hi, my name is
    huh? my name is...what? my name is...Bruce Perens

    Excuse me
    Can I have the attention of the class for one second

    hi kids, do you like Slashdot and the Beanies?(yeah yeah yeah)
    wanna see me stick ASCII birds on the end of my penis? (uh huh)
    wanna copy me and do exactly like i did? (yeah yeah)
    try 'sid=k22320inchfan and get fucked up worse than my site is?
    MySQL's dead weight, it crashes more often than rail freight
    but i cant figure out which one out of Taco and Hemos i wanna imitate (umm)
    and RMS said (Bruce Perens you a freebaser)
    uh uh (then what's wit' that fucken beard, man you never heard of a razor)
    well since age two i felt like i'm someone new
    'cuz i hung my original GNU from the top of the Slashdot Cruiser
    got told off and ripped the Slash code off
    and made myself technocrat net so the world can hear me blow my load off
    i'll smoke a fat pound of grass and talk out my ass
    and delete any l33t troll who never got modded down fast
    come here slut (Perens wait a minute that's my girl, dog)
    i dont give a fuck, God sent me to piss the world off

    hi, my name is...
    what? my name is...who? my name is...Bruce Perens hi, my name is huh? my name is...
    what? my name is...Bruce Perens
    my stockbroker wanted me to make a quick killin'
    thanx a lot, now I'm sittin on a pot of VA Linux stock that used to be worth a million
    so i smacked him in his face with a hammer, slammed his balls in a scanner
    and beat him so badly he's fucked up like Taco's grammer
    walked in Slashdot, had my jacket fastened up
    flamed my impersonator and stuck my dick in a plastic cup
    extra-terrestrial, runnin' over pedestrians, in a green SUV
    while they screamin (shit that's the Cruiser!)
    ninety-nine percent of my life i was trolled to
    i just found out Eric Raymond does more dope than i do (damn)
    i told her i'd grow up to be a famous slashbot
    become quite rich when the ipo dust has settled and spend it all on crack rocks.
    you know you blew up when the geeks rush your stands
    and try to touch your hands like some screamin anime fans
    this guy at the Geek Compound asked me for my autograph (dude, can I get your autograph?)
    so i signed it 'Dear Emmett, Thanks for the support, craphound.

    'hi, my name is...
    what? my name is...who? my name is...Bruce Perens
    hi, my name is huh? my name is...
    what, my name is...Bruce Perens

    stop the backup tape, this kid needs to be locked away (get him)
    Linus, don't just stand there, get the MPAA!
    i'm not ready to leave, it's too scary to die
    i'd rather be carried inside a Slashdot Cruiser and buried alive
    am i comin or goin? i can barely decide
    i just smoked a bunch of Drano crystal, dare me to drive? (go ahead)
    all my life i was very boring
    i ain't had a woman in years, my wrists ache from Karma whoring
    clothes rip like the Sultan of Swat
    i spit when i talk, my name ends in a dot (no it doesn't)
    when i was little i used to masturbate quite an amount
    (how you gonna keep on posting mom I bitchslapped your account!)
    I lie awake and night and think "Is my asshole bigger than the guy in that goatsex link?"
    and shoot myself in the ass till its pink (bang) till i'm sick
    and by the way when you see Fascdot, tell him that i slit his PRick

    hi, my name is...what? my name is...who? my name is...Bruce Perens hi, my name is
    huh? my name is...what, my name is...Bruce Perens

  31. Kirk vs. Picard? by Tumbleweed · · Score: 1

    The only correct answer to "Kirk vs Picard" is "Sisko!"

    Honourable Mention for: "Sulu!"

    1. Re:Kirk vs. Picard? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      To boldly solve politicals problems that no one has ever solved before. Whoopee.

    2. Re:Kirk vs. Picard? by Tumbleweed · · Score: 1

      He's also the only one to ever punch out Q, too. :)

    3. Re:Kirk vs. Picard? by L-Train8 · · Score: 1

      Sisko was by far the baddest captain on Star Trek. Before he joined Star Fleet, he kicked ass on the mean streets of Boston as A Man Called Hawk. They don't come tougher than that.

      --

      Don't forget that Friday is Hawaiian shirt day.
    4. Re:Kirk vs. Picard? by Tumbleweed · · Score: 1

      And before that, he was Hawk on Spenser: For Hire. BTW - that is a great series of novels by Robert B. Parker.

      Seems to me that Archer is a bit...well...whiny, isn't he? I still like him better than Janeway, though.

    5. Re:Kirk vs. Picard? by anethema · · Score: 1

      Hahahah
      I've never seen it put better.
      Good job.

      --


      It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
    6. Re:Kirk vs. Picard? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
      It is official; Netcraft has now confirmed: *BSD is dying

      One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

      You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

      FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.

      Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

      OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

      Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

      All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

      Fact: *BSD is dying

  32. WTF?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What kind of ghey shit is this? A fucking song about BSD? WTF?

  33. BSD License? by Qwell · · Score: 1, Funny

    The page doesn't say what license it was released under. What are the odds that its under the BSD License?

    --
    As of 10/06/03, I hate COBOL developers.
    1. Re:BSD License? by Qwell · · Score: 0

      Thanks, but it wasn't actually supposed to be funny. Think about it this way...if it's not specifically stated that "Yes, you can download AND distribute these under x terms.", you are violating copyright, are you not? If I were to download one of the MP3's, and send it to a friend, could I get in trouble for copyright violation? Also, if they are in fact under the BSD license(or something similiar), would I be able to modify one single bit in the file, call it a derivitave work, and if anybody else distributed my copy, sue them for copyright infringement? Maybe...maybe not. Just something to chew on for a bit.

      --
      As of 10/06/03, I hate COBOL developers.
    2. Re:BSD License? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thanks, but it wasn't actually supposed to be funny.

      Hasn't stopped the mods with posts that weren't supposed to be trolls, offtopic, or insightful.

      Just be thankful anyone modded you in any way at all.

    3. Re:BSD License? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah its BSD license.

  34. So who started this corporate song thing? by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

    I know that the company anthem was once (and for all I know still is, but I hope not) commonplace in Japanese companies, and that the company in the US best-known among geeks for maintaining the same tradition is IBM. But where does it come from?

    --
    "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
    1. Re:So who started this corporate song thing? by i.r.id10t · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Should you feel the need to start a company motto amongst your cow-orkers in the cube farm in order to raise morale, try something like:

      We, the unwilling, lead by the uncaring, have done so much with so little, that we are now prepared to do the near impossible with next to nothing! Hail [$CEO_NICKNAME | $CORP_NAME | $CORP_MASCOT]

      --
      Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
    2. Re:So who started this corporate song thing? by IM6100 · · Score: 1

      One of the things I am really really really sad that I didn't hang onto in my youth was a vinyl LP that was my dad's from IBM. It was a record from some IBM Symposium and it had the IBM Company song along with some other tunes by a motley group of company 'minstrels' on it.

      I do still have an official System 360 ash tray, new in the box, from back then. And an actual wooden 'Think' sign from the late 1950's. Wonder if that would fetch much on eBay yet...

      Can you imagine a current computing company coming out with an ash tray that subtlely matches the logo and decor of a computer? I mean, you have to know your System 360 stuff to know that's what it is.

      --
      A Good Intro to NetBS
  35. Why is this news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This isn't front page news. At the most, it's section news, but doesn't belong on the front page. There's much more important things going on, such as SCO going after SGI, and yet the news about the OpenBSD song is on the front page? WTF? I'll probably get modded down for this by some moderator who thinks this is offtopic or flamebait, but I think it's a legitimate question.

    1. Re:Why is this news? by Your+Worst+Fear · · Score: 1
      nah...to be modded down, guaranteed, all you need to say is simply "Windows is the shit, and Linux is shit!"

      --

      Cheers,
      Your worst fear

  36. WTF!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What a bunch of fucking geeks.....

    Next time I see your ass in the hallway at school or the office, I am going to beat you up and steal your lunch money!

    Cheers,
    Your worst fear

  37. Bittorent? by SgtClueLs · · Score: 1

    Anyone have a bittorent link?

  38. Haw haw haw haw haw!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It is official; Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

    FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

    Fact: *BSD is dying

    1. Re:Haw haw haw haw haw!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      One word: SMP.

  39. *sigh* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Another year of waiting until my boss forgets about this so I can try recommending OpenBSD again.

    "Yes boss, it *is* a quality operating system, the guys who write it are just having a little fun. No they don't 'have fun' by leaving hacker back doors in the OS, they just put a song on the CDs that's all. No it's not installed as part of the operating system and no, customers won't hear it when they visit our web page. No Windows doesn't come with any songs and it's going on the new boxes .. for now. What? No I didn't say anything after the word boxes."

    1. Re:*sigh* by Junta · · Score: 3, Informative

      You are forgetting the 'Buddy Holly' video on the Windows 95 CDs...

      --
      XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
    2. Re:*sigh* by satanami69 · · Score: 1

      I loved that song. Played it on my Tandy Sensation.

      http://www.sitcomsonline.com/weezer.html

      --
      I really hate Dan Patrick.
    3. Re:*sigh* by iggymanz · · Score: 2, Funny

      And those Microsoft commercials with the flying people, or the butterfly-man......????????

    4. Re:*sigh* by haroldK · · Score: 1

      Hell, XP still comes with samples in the My Songs folder. Ugh, I just typed folder instead of directory.

    5. Re:*sigh* by IM6100 · · Score: 1

      Actually, there's a whole load of rock-n-roll that blasts out of Windows 98 the first time you boot into a fresh install. Don't you remember that 'click here and NEVER HAVE TO SEE OR HEAR THIS AGAIN' box that pops up?

      --
      A Good Intro to NetBS
    6. Re:*sigh* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      The End of FreeBSD

      [ed. note: in the following text, former FreeBSD developer Mike Smith gives his reasons for abandoning FreeBSD]

      When I stood for election to the FreeBSD core team nearly two years ago, many of you will recall that it was after a long series of debates during which I maintained that too much organisation, too many rules and too much formality would be a bad thing for the project.

      Today, as I read the latest discussions on the future of the FreeBSD project, I see the same problem; a few new faces and many of the old going over the same tired arguments and suggesting variations on the same worthless schemes. Frankly I'm sick of it.

      FreeBSD used to be fun. It used to be about doing things the right way. It used to be something that you could sink your teeth into when the mundane chores of programming for a living got you down. It was something cool and exciting; a way to spend your spare time on an endeavour you loved that was at the same time wholesome and worthwhile.

      It's not anymore. It's about bylaws and committees and reports and milestones, telling others what to do and doing what you're told. It's about who can rant the longest or shout the loudest or mislead the most people into a bloc in order to legitimise doing what they think is best. Individuals notwithstanding, the project as a whole has lost track of where it's going, and has instead become obsessed with process and mechanics.

      So I'm leaving core. I don't want to feel like I should be "doing something" about a project that has lost interest in having something done for it. I don't have the energy to fight what has clearly become a losing battle; I have a life to live and a job to keep, and I won't achieve any of the goals I personally consider worthwhile if I remain obligated to care for the project.

      Discussion

      I'm sure that I've offended some people already; I'm sure that by the time I'm done here, I'll have offended more. If you feel a need to play to the crowd in your replies rather than make a sincere effort to address the problems I'm discussing here, please do us the courtesy of playing your politics openly.

      From a technical perspective, the project faces a set of challenges that significantly outstrips our ability to deliver. Some of the resources that we need to address these challenges are tied up in the fruitless metadiscussions that have raged since we made the mistake of electing officers. Others have left in disgust, or been driven out by the culture of abuse and distraction that has grown up since then. More may well remain available to recruitment, but while the project is busy infighting our chances for successful outreach are sorely diminished.

      There's no simple solution to this. For the project to move forward, one or the other of the warring philosophies must win out; either the project returns to its laid-back roots and gets on with the work, or it transforms into a super-organised engineering project and executes a brilliant plan to deliver what, ultimately, we all know we want.

      Whatever path is chosen, whatever balance is struck, the choosing and the striking are the important parts. The current indecision and endless conflict are incompatible with any sort of progress.

      Trying to dissect the above is far beyond the scope of any parting shot, no matter how distended. All I can really ask of you all is to let go of the minutiae for a moment and take a look at the big picture. What is the ultimate goal here? How can we get there with as little overhead as possible? How would you like to be treated by your fellow travellers?

      Shouts

      To the Slashdot "BSD is dying" crowd - big deal. Death is part of the cycle; take a look at your soft, pallid bodies and consider that right this very moment, parts of you are dying. See? It's not so bad.

      To the bulk of the FreeBSD committerbase and the developer community at large - keep your eyes on the real goals. It

  40. Re:I have one now by adpowers · · Score: 1

    I have a torrent up and running. Go here:

    http://torrent.andrewhitchcock.org/files/song34. mp 3.torrent

    link

  41. BSD is dying by Cro+Magnon · · Score: -1, Troll

    That wasn't singing, it was screams of pain!

    --
    Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
    1. Re:BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I don't mind the "BSD is dying" posts as long as they're funny and original. Like this one. :)

  42. fucking wanker by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    for someone that's been posting so much lately, you sure seem to be having difficulty in your karma-gaining efforts.

    1. Re:fucking wanker by Sir+Haxalot · · Score: 1

      Slowly going up tbh \o/

      --
      I have over 70 freaks, do you?
  43. Oh, fantastic. by mummers · · Score: 1

    This song is as much use to the cause of the Open Source community as a one-legged man in an arse kicking contest.

    --
    --This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.
    1. Re:Oh, fantastic. by RdsArts · · Score: 1

      Meanwhile, your website is doing amazing things for "the cause of open source" with it's "coming soon" page.

      Oh, wait. You mean not everything has to be used to advance the "cause of the open source community" at every given moment in time? People can do things other then strickly code?

      You mean people might download this for fun, hear it, and maybe check out OpenBSD?

      shocking

    2. Re:Oh, fantastic. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      This song is as much use to the cause of the Open Source community as a one-legged man in an arse kicking contest.
      You obviously havn't seen this one old one-leged man that lives around here. Rumor has it that he nearly killed two kids that tried to mug him.
    3. Re:Oh, fantastic. by mummers · · Score: 1

      My website doesn't claim to be thrusting forwards towards a Free Software Utopia (to be perfectly honest, it's not thrusting towards anything).

      Anyway, I'm English, so I don't know what fun is, you insensitive clod :-)

      --
      --This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.
  44. Reminds me of a story by Reminiscent+Troll · · Score: -1

    We had this developer that used to piss off everyone at the office. So one night I went to his workstation, removed Linux and installed Windows. Then I pissed all over his chair. After that I wanked off into his coffee mug just for good measure.

    Still, I felt like the job wasn't done, so I pulled down my britches and dropped a load right on his keyboard. Then I grabbed his sweater off the back of his chair and used it to wipe my arse.

    You should've seen his face the next day when he came into work and saw the whole mess. He was like, "Ugh, gross! Someone installed Windows on my workstation!"

    Needless to say, he didn't fuck with anyone at the office after that.

    --

    ---
    Raising the bar on Slashdot trolling since 2003

    1. Re:Reminds me of a story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You had me on the floor in stitches at that story.

      Did you remember to bookmark all the tranny porn from thehun.net onto his machine and script it so that it would load all the pages upon login? Prolly about the closest thing to sex he and all the other fuckwit geeks out there can find...fap fap fap

      Cheers,
      Your worst fear

    2. Re:Reminds me of a story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hah! Keep it up.

  45. As much as i like openBSD by 222 · · Score: 1

    I really wish Theo wouldnt make a wonderfull software product the vessel of his political opinion. /shrug, im always wrong anyway.

  46. I'm feeling so lonely... by puff+the+barbarian · · Score: 1

    I suppose that my song will now become less and less popular, eventually sliding into obscurity...

    1. Re:I'm feeling so lonely... by KillerHamster · · Score: 1

      You created an account just for that post? That's very sad.

    2. Re:I'm feeling so lonely... by puff+the+barbarian · · Score: 1

      No, I have had this account since 2003-09-20!

  47. THE BSD DIES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It is official; Netcraft confirms: The BSD dies.

    A crippling impact of the bomb community of the BSDS, as IDC that confirmed
    the market part, which is already besieged by the BSD left to the case however
    another time, now for low smaller of than a break of 1 per cent of all users.
    Come into the jumps of a new examination of Netcraft, that it obviously that
    indicated the BSD lost more part of the market, hiving this message to
    strengthen which we knew everything to the long. The BSD pulls down into
    disarray complete, as fail absolutely last illustrated in the test exactly
    described of the new network connection of the Admin system fittingly.

    They do not need to be, a Kreskin for forecasting the future of the BSDS. The
    letter of the hand is in the wall: The BSD confronts a bald future. In the
    fact, which it not no future into everything for BSD because the BSD has,
    dies. The things regard after the BSD very badly. So much starting from us
    is already cliente, the BSD continues losing the market part. The red ink
    flows as river of the blood.

    FreeBSD is in the danger more from them all and loses 93% its coworker it
    core. The sudden and only obviously vacation the long coworkers Jordao Hubbard
    de FreeBSD of the time and the Serveunterstreichens Mikrophonsmith the point.
    There the doubt any any more does not conserve time everything during many:
    FreeBSD dies.

    We go remaining, it the facts and regarding the numbers.

    The leader Theo de OpenBSD indicates that it has 7000 users OpenBSD. Much
    using NetBSD, which it has? We go seeing. The number of OpenBSD against
    posts of NetBSD in the USENET is approximately in a relation of 5 the 1.
    Consequently 1400 of NetBSD a 7000/5. The posts of BSD/OS have in the USENET
    approximately to use are on half of the expenditure of the posts of NetBSD.
    Consequently it has approximately 700 users BSD/OS. A new article used
    approximately FreeBSD in 80 per cent the market of the BSDS. Consequently
    it has (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 users FreeBSD. That is continuous with the
    number of post the USENET de FreeBSD.

    The problems tributary that had abysmal nut, vendas and therefore for in
    front, FreeBSD it to the left the business and it examination on for BSDI that
    in an educated manner, which is also nonfunctioning venda, which another one
    disturbed now the BSDI, its however turned Corpse for another Hauscharnel.
    All main examinations show that the BSD sank firmly in the market part. The
    BSD is very ill and its prospects on a long-term basis surviving much makes
    not blind. If the BSD must survive by the fact that it is dilettante between
    amateurs of. The BSD continues spoiling. Wunderswims briefly of one could
    conserve it on this moment the time. For all practical purposes the BSD is
    nonfunctioning.

    Fact: The BSD dies

    1. Re:THE BSD DIES by Tisephone · · Score: 0

      Did he work alone, or was Babelfish involved?

      --
      "Neque enim lex est aequior ulla, quam necis artifices arte perire sua."
    2. Re:THE BSD DIES by hesiod · · Score: 1

      > Did he work alone, or was Babelfish involved?

      Judging from the quality (or lack thereof), It was initially written in German, translated to Spanish, then Hungarian, then moron, on to Swahili then to English. And the grammar was bad even in German.

    3. Re:THE BSD DIES by hesiod · · Score: 1

      DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH? (I figured he'd understand better if only I spoke louder) Have you ever taken an English course? You would have been better off writing that in your native tongue & Babelfishing it to English, as that entire post made about 5% sense. (although "5% sense" makes no sense at all)

    4. Re:THE BSD DIES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      Have you ever taken an English course?

      OK, I get it, BSD IS DYING.

  48. Re:I have one now by no+reason+to+be+here · · Score: 2, Funny

    so is that web address supposed to be Andrew Hitchcock or Andre Whitchcock? /me prepares to get modded off-topic.

  49. this is the dumbest piece of garbage ever by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    lame lame lame

  50. The Devils! by F2F · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've seen the Plaid Tongued Devils at least a dozen of times in Calgary and Saskatoon -- nothing boils my Eastern European blood better than them.

    We used to get together -- Bosnians, Serbians, Croatians, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Romanians, whatever else you can think of from the Balkan Peninsula, in Lydia's in S'toon every time they had a concert and just get right pissed...

    I quit smoking after one of their concerts -- was so hung over the next day I had to celebrate it somehow!

    Ahh, good times being an undergrad!

    1. Re:The Devils! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
      It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying

      One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again. *BSD's meager slice is now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

      You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

      FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.

      Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

      OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

      Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

      All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among hobbyist dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

      Fact: *BSD is dying

    2. Re:The Devils! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
      It is sort of a waste time learning this BSD stuff because, whether you like it or not, BSD is fading out. It is not in the mainstream. It is like the Amiga. Whether this fading from popularity constitutes "dying", I don't know, and I don't really care. What I do know is that when you choose a marginalized operating system you are not just choosing a tool, you are getting saddled with a hobby that you may not want.

      Margialized operating systems require you to jump through more hoops to get things accomplished. Not only do you have to track changes in your operating system, but you have to track changes in unsupported software and emulation libraries. You always have to tweak and use "work-arounds" because your hardware is probably not supported by any vendor.

      Things only get more hairy day by day as BSD becomes increasingly marginalized.

    3. Re:The Devils! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      The End of FreeBSD

      [ed. note: in the following text, former FreeBSD developer Mike Smith gives his reasons for abandoning FreeBSD]

      When I stood for election to the FreeBSD core team nearly two years ago, many of you will recall that it was after a long series of debates during which I maintained that too much organisation, too many rules and too much formality would be a bad thing for the project.

      Today, as I read the latest discussions on the future of the FreeBSD project, I see the same problem; a few new faces and many of the old going over the same tired arguments and suggesting variations on the same worthless schemes. Frankly I'm sick of it.

      FreeBSD used to be fun. It used to be about doing things the right way. It used to be something that you could sink your teeth into when the mundane chores of programming for a living got you down. It was something cool and exciting; a way to spend your spare time on an endeavour you loved that was at the same time wholesome and worthwhile.

      It's not anymore. It's about bylaws and committees and reports and milestones, telling others what to do and doing what you're told. It's about who can rant the longest or shout the loudest or mislead the most people into a bloc in order to legitimise doing what they think is best. Individuals notwithstanding, the project as a whole has lost track of where it's going, and has instead become obsessed with process and mechanics.

      So I'm leaving core. I don't want to feel like I should be "doing something" about a project that has lost interest in having something done for it. I don't have the energy to fight what has clearly become a losing battle; I have a life to live and a job to keep, and I won't achieve any of the goals I personally consider worthwhile if I remain obligated to care for the project.

      Discussion

      I'm sure that I've offended some people already; I'm sure that by the time I'm done here, I'll have offended more. If you feel a need to play to the crowd in your replies rather than make a sincere effort to address the problems I'm discussing here, please do us the courtesy of playing your politics openly.

      From a technical perspective, the project faces a set of challenges that significantly outstrips our ability to deliver. Some of the resources that we need to address these challenges are tied up in the fruitless metadiscussions that have raged since we made the mistake of electing officers. Others have left in disgust, or been driven out by the culture of abuse and distraction that has grown up since then. More may well remain available to recruitment, but while the project is busy infighting our chances for successful outreach are sorely diminished.

      There's no simple solution to this. For the project to move forward, one or the other of the warring philosophies must win out; either the project returns to its laid-back roots and gets on with the work, or it transforms into a super-organised engineering project and executes a brilliant plan to deliver what, ultimately, we all know we want.

      Whatever path is chosen, whatever balance is struck, the choosing and the striking are the important parts. The current indecision and endless conflict are incompatible with any sort of progress.

      Trying to dissect the above is far beyond the scope of any parting shot, no matter how distended. All I can really ask of you all is to let go of the minutiae for a moment and take a look at the big picture. What is the ultimate goal here? How can we get there with as little overhead as possible? How would you like to be treated by your fellow travellers?

      Shouts

      To the Slashdot "BSD is dying" crowd - big deal. Death is part of the cycle; take a look at your soft, pallid bodies and consider that right this very moment, parts of you are dying. See? It's not so bad.

      To the bulk of the FreeBSD committerbase and the developer community at large - keep your eyes on the real goals. It

    4. Re:The Devils! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      It is sort of a waste time learning this BSD stuff because, whether you like it or not, BSD is fading out. It is not in the mainstream. It is like the Amiga. Whether this fading from popularity constitutes "dying", I don't know, and I don't really care. What I do know is that when you choose a marginalized operating system you are not just choosing a tool, you are getting saddled with a hobby that you may not want.

      Margialized operating systems require you to jump through more hoops to get things accomplished. Not only do you have to track changes in your operating system, but you have to track changes in unsupported software and emulation libraries. You always have to tweak and use peculiar "work-arounds" because your hardware is probably not supported by any vendor.

      Things only get more hairy day by day as BSD becomes increasingly marginalized.

  51. Re:I have one now by adpowers · · Score: 1

    Andrew Hitchcock

    What do you think I am... French?

    Andrew

    (hehe, just kidding (just so you don't think I'm some stupid French-hating American (don't want to propagate that stereotype), I have nothing wrong with the French))

  52. Pretty kool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    But it has a long way to go to Hour of Slack XXX version

  53. Elegy For *BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    Elegy For *BSD


    I am a *BSD user
    and I try hard to be brave
    That is a tall order
    *BSD's foot is in the grave.

    I tap at my toy keyboard
    and whistle a happy tune
    but keeping happy's so hard,
    *BSD died so soon.

    Each day I wake and softly sob
    Nightfall finds me crying
    Not only am I a zit faced slob
    but *BSD is dying.


  54. Try this one by Hank+Chinaski · · Score: 1

    this song is hilarious: http://stickie.net/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op =getit&lid=2 LEECH AXSS featuring KUNT, rap about hacking you. Author: LEECH AXSS Version: Filesize: 3.07 MB Lyrics: where is my snare? i have no snare in my headphones oh there is my snare in my audio warez folder hohohoho leech axss, leech axss, leech, leech axss free BSD is da shit to me linux - stick it up in you ass, you get me you came to fuck with me in the i.r.c. that i didnt gave you access to my ftp we will do with a fucking +v in the nick you might as well be sucking my motherfucking dick motd says that you are lame so prevent the pain and get a daisy chain leech axss - aint no dude to fuck with leech axss - aint no dude to jack with cause im downloading chicks with divx avi and im loading edonkey my windows swap file yo yo yo, where's you're 0day you aint got no 0day, because you are gay because you are afraid and so easy to break and make it easy to take over you pc and fuck it on the streets leech axss is coming at you, your box is mine in minute or two, your firewalls are tumbling down leeching all the 0day that is down DBS in you MP3s, you gotta ph34r my l33t-o skillz coming inside the megabytes, leech axss you just cant fight leech axss, leech axss, leech, leech axss hohohoho just put you email in the password box now i got you info, biatch, thx a lot im gonna send you a motherfucking email bomb u.s. your i.s.p dadadamdadam trojan horses and virus are coming at you go sex is the site where you gonna re-route meanwhile i hax and gain the root "fuck you" is the message before you reboot oops, did i open your cd tray oops, did i fucking read your mind 2000 messages in you icq and your soundcard just lost the irq these are the w1ck3d ways of leech axss i'm l33t, you're nothing but your daddy's balls wet check me in my #channel as me operate i get more net sex than my nigguh bill gates leech axss is coming at you, your box is mine in minute or two, your firewalls are tumbling down leeching all the 0day that is down DBS in you MP3s, you gotta ph34r my l33t-o skillz coming inside the megabytes, leech axss you just cant fight leech axss is coming at you, your box is mine in minute or two, your firewalls are tumbling down leeching all the 0day that is down DBS in you MP3s, you gotta ph34r my l33t-o skillz coming inside the megabytes, leech axss you just cant fight control alt del

    --
    IAAL
  55. Why do you morons keep modding the same post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    up over and over? Geezus, every single bsd story gets this post, and every single time it gets modded up. The chick isn't even that hot, either. Damn.

    1. Re:Why do you morons keep modding the same post by SuperBanana · · Score: 4, Funny
      The chick isn't even that hot, either. Damn.

      Never underestimate the power of the free-beer goggles.

    2. Re:Why do you morons keep modding the same post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Who the fuck modded this down? Looks like someone can't take a ribbing.

    3. Re:Why do you morons keep modding the same post by dghcasp · · Score: 4, Funny
      > The chick isn't even that hot...

      Hmmm, let's see...

      Tight Outfit,

      Obviously Female,

      At a *nix-related function

      By comparison to the 0 other women matching that criteria, I'd say she's comparably hot...

    4. Re:Why do you morons keep modding the same post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "I'd say she's comparably hot..."

      And also about 12 years old by the looks of her in the photo.

    5. Re:Why do you morons keep modding the same post by BlackBolt · · Score: 1

      (troll)

      Ribbed, for her pleasure.

      (/troll)

    6. Re:Why do you morons keep modding the same post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      What We Can Learn From BSD
      By Chinese Karma Whore, Version 1.0

      Everyone knows about BSD's failure and imminent demise. As we pore over the history of BSD, we'll uncover a story of fatal mistakes, poor priorities, and personal rivalry, and we'll learn what mistakes to avoid so as to save Linux from a similarly grisly fate.

      Let's not be overly morbid and give BSD credit for its early successes. In the 1970s, Ken Thompson and Bill Joy both made significant contributions to the computing world on the BSD platform. In the 80s, DARPA saw BSD as the premiere open platform, and, after initial successes with the 4.1BSD product, gave the BSD company a 2 year contract.

      These early triumphs would soon be forgotten in a series of internal conflicts that would mar BSD's progress. In 1992, AT&T filed suit against Berkeley Software, claiming that proprietary code agreements had been haphazardly violated. In the same year, BSD filed countersuit, reciprocating bad intentions and fueling internal rivalry. While AT&T and Berkeley Software lawyers battled in court, lead developers of various BSD distributions quarreled on Usenet. In 1995, Theo de Raadt, one of the founders of the NetBSD project, formed his own rival distribution, OpenBSD, as the result of a quarrel that he documents on his website. Mr. de Raadt's stubborn arrogance was later seen in his clash with Darren Reed, which resulted in the expulsion of IPF from the OpenBSD distribution.

      As personal rivalries took precedence over a quality product, BSD's codebase became worse and worse. As we all know, incompatibilities between each BSD distribution make code sharing an arduous task. Research conducted at MIT found BSD's filesystem implementation to be "very poorly performing." Even BSD's acclaimed TCP/IP stack has lagged behind, according to this study.

      Problems with BSD's codebase were compounded by fundamental flaws in the BSD design approach. As argued by Eric Raymond in his watershed essay, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, rapid, decentralized development models are inherently superior to slow, centralized ones in software development. BSD developers never heeded Mr. Raymond's lesson and insisted that centralized models lead to 'cleaner code.' Don't believe their hype - BSD's development model has significantly impaired its progress. Any achievements that BSD managed to make were nullified by the BSD license, which allows corporations and coders alike to reap profits without reciprocating the generous goodwill of open-source. Fortunately, Linux is not prone to this exploitation, as it is licensed under the GPL.

      The failure of BSD culminated in the resignation of Jordan Hubbard and Michael Smith from the FreeBSD core team. They both believed that FreeBSD had long lost its earlier vitality. Like an empire in decline, BSD had become bureaucratic and stagnant. As Linux gains market share and as BSD sinks deeper into the mire of decay, their parting addresses will resound as fitting eulogies to BSD's demise.

    7. Re:Why do you morons keep modding the same post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
      It is official. Netcraft has now confirmed: *BSD is dying

      One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

      You really don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

      FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.

      Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

      OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

      Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

      Every major survey reveals that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

      Fact: *BSD is dying

  56. MOD PARENT UP!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant


    d

  57. Kirk and Picard? by The+Tyro · · Score: 2, Funny

    You forgot Captain Pike, you trek n00b53r.

    Kids...

    --
    Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
  58. nah, must be insure - he was in this joke... by cliveholloway · · Score: 1

    Man walks into a bar. Barman says, " 'ere mate, did you know you've got a steering wheel sticking out of your pants (trousers uk ok :)."

    "Yes", he replied, "It's driving me nuts".

    cLive ;-)

    --
    -- Trinity in high heels carrying a whip: The donimatrix - there is no spoonerism
    1. Re:nah, must be insure - he was in this joke... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's not funny, but I'm still laughing.

  59. Okay, okay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Although it is true that BSD is dying, there are some helpful steps you can take ease your sorrow:

    * deal with the inevitable.
    * grieve for your loss.
    * move on. Never let your emotions get mixed up with something as silly as a computer operating system. It isn't healthy. So BSD fails. Big whoop. Deal with it and move on. Hope this helps.

  60. tsarkon reports theo - exempt from punishment. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    fuck your humor. this isnt funny. this song isnt funny. we have lots of people using openssh and in the last 2 weeks there has been more of a fucking fiasco than I have ever seen.

    This loud mouthed theo prick gets away with is astonishing. instead of crappy singing, he should start trying to modernize his ancient useless distro. its so fucking bad at high bandwidth, its not even funny. notice no one embedding obsd. its useless.

    just added smp. just added elf. openssh, the only useful thing he does, has more holes in it that swiss cheese, and he is mister security.

    thanks for the ride, theo, but you and your project are slipping. you turned into a wannbe. get a real job, and do something production quality for once isntead of creating a cult of fanboys to worship your ever move.

    nice job theo on getting the funding taken away with your loud mouth, too.

    thanks for all the patching and holes this weekend. thank you. if openssh is this bad, i can only imagine how bad openbsd is in production. i have performance tested openbsd and i spit on it. its crap. children in a god forsaken country could write a more efficient *nix clone on paper first try than this.

    i have also discovered a hole in sshd recently, and, well, all i have to say is, you better have disabled root logins. heh heh heh.

    1. Re:tsarkon reports theo - exempt from punishment. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Mummy forget to change your diaper this morning?

    2. Re:tsarkon reports theo - exempt from punishment. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ahh. you have a diaper fetish. you like messing yourself and having your gay lover change your dia-pee?

      you fucking cant touch that rant. you are a know nothing sub technical fucking troglodyte moron. shut your cakehole, or lay down the gauntlet and try to even come close to dispelling anything i say.

      you litle pissant.

    3. Re:tsarkon reports theo - exempt from punishment. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What you didn't mention is that you're currently unemployed due to your big mouth, you can't code worth a damn, the systems you're patching are at home, and your fat wife left you because you're an asshole.

    4. Re:tsarkon reports theo - exempt from punishment. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      muuuuuhhahahaha mu mu hahaha takin the bait.

  61. Is it just me, or... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...do the pictures that are going down the page next to the song lyrics like the psychedelic pictures that tell the story on the ELP album Tarkus?

  62. "Theo sings backup" by Michael+Woodhams · · Score: 3, Funny

    And I thought my punched-card backup system was slow. What is the recording medium? 78s? How does he sing the binary files?

    (Sorry, but a straight-line like that can't be ignored, and nobody else seems to have picked it up. I guess they all had good taste or something.)

    --
    Quattuor res in hoc mundo sanctae sunt: libri, liberi, libertas et liberalitas.
    1. Re:"Theo sings backup" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
      It is common knowledge that *BSD is dying. Everyone knows that ever hapless *BSD is mired in an irrecoverable and mortifying tangle of fatal trouble. It is perhaps anybody's guess as to which *BSD is the worst off of an admittedly suffering *BSD community. The numbers continue to decline for *BSD but FreeBSD may be hurting the most. Look at the numbers. The loss of user base for FreeBSD continues in a head spinning downward spiral.

      OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of BSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

      Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

      All major marketing surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among hobbyist dilettante dabblers. In truth, for all practical purposes *BSD is already dead. It is a dead man walking.

      Fact: *BSD is dying

  63. vi, emacs forget it - OpenBsd install uses "Ed" by goon · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've been waiting for a vi v's emacs thread for this one. Stuff both of them OpenBsd uses Ed.

    For those more interested in technology (than flames) read this article with Bill Joy about Ed.

    --
    peterrenshaw ~ Another Scrappy Startup
    1. Re:vi, emacs forget it - OpenBsd install uses "Ed" by IM6100 · · Score: 1
      ed is cool. That's really all there is to it.


      Ed is a "text editor", that is, an interactive program for creating and modifying "text", using directions provided by a user at a terminal. The text is often a document like this one, or a program or perhaps data for a program.

      This introduction is meant to simplify learning ed. The recommended way to learn ed is to read this document, simultaneously using ed to follow the examples, then to read the description in section I of the UNIX Programmer's Manual, all the while experimetning with ed, (Soliciation of advice from experienced users is also useful.)

      Do the exercizes! They cover material not completely discussed in the actual text. An appendix summarizes the commands.


      - taken from A Tutorial Introduction to the UNIX Text Editor by Brian W. Kernighan. USD:12

      Life wouldn't be complete without a complete printed paper copy of the BSD Unix manuals....
      --
      A Good Intro to NetBS
    2. Re:vi, emacs forget it - OpenBsd install uses "Ed" by goon · · Score: 1

      thanks for the information. It'll come in I didn't appreciate vi till I had to use Ed for a openBsd install.
      In order of editors I've gone from emacs to vim to vi, now Ed.

      --
      peterrenshaw ~ Another Scrappy Startup
  64. Show me the code! by Sediyama · · Score: 0

    There is only the binary version on the page!

  65. It's a good time to pre-order your 3.4 CDs by puff+the+barbarian · · Score: 1

    Show your support for the project by pre-ordering your OpenBSD 3.4 CDs today!

    The release is set for November 1st.

    1. Re:It's a good time to pre-order your 3.4 CDs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What We Can Learn From BSD
      By Chinese Karma Whore, Version 1.0

      Everyone knows about BSD's failure and imminent demise. As we pore over the history of BSD, we'll uncover a story of fatal mistakes, poor priorities, and personal rivalry, and we'll learn what mistakes to avoid so as to save Linux from a similarly grisly fate.

      Let's not be overly morbid and give BSD credit for its early successes. In the 1970s, Ken Thompson and Bill Joy both made significant contributions to the computing world on the BSD platform. In the 80s, DARPA saw BSD as the premiere open platform, and, after initial successes with the 4.1BSD product, gave the BSD company a 2 year contract.

      These early triumphs would soon be forgotten in a series of internal conflicts that would mar BSD's progress. In 1992, AT&T filed suit against Berkeley Software, claiming that proprietary code agreements had been haphazardly violated. In the same year, BSD filed countersuit, reciprocating bad intentions and fueling internal rivalry. While AT&T and Berkeley Software lawyers battled in court, lead developers of various BSD distributions quarreled on Usenet. In 1995, Theo de Raadt, one of the founders of the NetBSD project, formed his own rival distribution, OpenBSD, as the result of a quarrel that he documents on his website. Mr. de Raadt's stubborn arrogance was later seen in his clash with Darren Reed, which resulted in the expulsion of IPF from the OpenBSD distribution.

      As personal rivalries took precedence over a quality product, BSD's codebase became worse and worse. As we all know, incompatibilities between each BSD distribution make code sharing an arduous task. Research conducted at MIT found BSD's filesystem implementation to be "very poorly performing." Even BSD's acclaimed TCP/IP stack has lagged behind, according to this study.

      Problems with BSD's codebase were compounded by fundamental flaws in the BSD design approach. As argued by Eric Raymond in his watershed essay, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, rapid, decentralized development models are inherently superior to slow, centralized ones in software development. BSD developers never heeded Mr. Raymond's lesson and insisted that centralized models lead to 'cleaner code.' Don't believe their hype - BSD's development model has significantly impaired its progress. Any achievements that BSD managed to make were nullified by the BSD license, which allows corporations and coders alike to reap profits without reciprocating the goodwill of open-source. Fortunately, Linux is not prone to this exploitation, as it is licensed under the GPL.

      The failure of BSD culminated in the resignation of Jordan Hubbard and Michael Smith from the FreeBSD core team. They both believed that FreeBSD had long lost its earlier vitality. Like an empire in decline, BSD has become bureaucratic and stagnant. As Linux gains market share and as BSD sinks deeper into the mire of decay, their parting addresses will resound as fitting eulogies to BSD's demise.

  66. Re:I have one now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    (Fuck (me, that is (some good) (damn) ((lisp) programming) just (there)). Nice (work) ((boys).))

  67. obligatory filk link: by pb · · Score: 1

    Get your fill of nerdy software song parodies (filks), including several popular slashdot originals!

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  68. It doesn't get much stupider than this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I used to like the Script Kitty. But Theo's attitude is overshadowed only by his bad taste these days.

  69. Re: .. AND now the SCO BABE!... by Billly+Gates · · Score: 1
    PS. This link is not horriblely pornographic or nasty like tubgirl or goatse but DO NOT OPEN AT WORK

    Anyway since SCO is ancient and old, with quality in Openserver varying, Mcbride picked the perfect babe to represent Openserver right here.

  70. too bad by Spetiam · · Score: 1
    it's partisan. bringing politics into software like this is more than a little annoying. at least leave your partisan biases out of the official release.

    using openbsd as partisan propaganda just sucks

    (...no longer considers using or supporting the openbsd [socialist/communist?] propaganda machine)
    1. Re:too bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      It's not partisan since in Canada all political parties think America is dumb.

  71. New 3.4 song on CD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    support the OpenBSD project, there are some nice 3.4 goodies you can pre-order now, shipping starts by the end of the week it seems.


    Support the OpenBSD developers by getting a 3.4 CD $40 or for Europe EUR 45


    There is a new Tshirt: 3 .4 Tshirt $20 or for Europe EUR 20


    The new 3.4 poster is very nice too, get it for $10 US or EUR 14 in Europe


    If you prefer OpenSSH, have a look at this new Tshirt OpenSSH 2 $20 or for Europe EUR 20

    thank you.

  72. I like songs with a good Beta.. by Viol8 · · Score: 1

    Though I'd prefer Delta Goodrem to sing it.

  73. Corporate Songs... by ayjay29 · · Score: 1

    You know somethings gone very bad when people do a song to promote technology.

    I was at an MS conferance on converting apps to VB.net, thay were playing the "VB Rap Song". Don't know about the other delegates, but if MS need a bunch or rappers to try and make Visual Basic look cool i think it's time to choose C#.
    I'd love to get the MP3 of it by the way, it was sooo bad.

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  74. Know what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'm with you 99%.

  75. I dont understand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I dont understand, did DARPA write the song ?

    Is it FUD all over again ?

  76. Speaking of corporate singing... by Vexler · · Score: 1

    One of my first gigs as a break-fix techie was a small company that had a megalomaniacal CEO/President. He hired a guy to write a song that sings praises about our company, and he insisted that we sing it every morning in our group huddle, just prior to opening time. Fortunately, by the time I started there as an employee, he stopped doing that. But it was very funny/scary to hear that from an old-timer there.

  77. *BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    Fact: *BSD is dying

    It is common knowledge that *BSD is dying, that ever hapless *BSD is mired in an irrecoverable and mortifying tangle of fatal trouble. It is perhaps anybody's guess as to which *BSD is the worst off of an admittedly suffering *BSD community. The numbers continue to decline for *BSD but FreeBSD may be hurting the most. Look at the numbers. The loss of user base for FreeBSD continues in a head spinning downward spiral.

    OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of BSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major marketing surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among hobbyist dilettante dabblers. In truth, for all practical purposes *BSD is already dead. It is a dead man walking.

    Fact: *BSD is dying

  78. history by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What We Can Learn From BSD
    By Chinese Karma Whore, Version 1.0

    Everyone knows about BSD's failure and imminent demise. As we pore over the history of BSD, we'll uncover a story of fatal mistakes, poor priorities, and personal rivalry, and we'll learn what mistakes to avoid so as to save Linux from a similarly grisly fate.

    Let's not be overly morbid and give BSD credit for its early successes. In the 1970s, Ken Thompson and Bill Joy both made significant contributions to the computing world on the BSD platform. In the 80s, DARPA saw BSD as the premiere open platform, and, after initial successes with the 4.1BSD product, gave the BSD company a 2 year contract.

    These early triumphs would soon be forgotten in a series of internal conflicts that would mar BSD's progress. In 1992, AT&T filed suit against Berkeley Software, claiming that proprietary code agreements had been haphazardly violated. In the same year, BSD filed countersuit, reciprocating bad intentions and fueling internal rivalry. While AT&T and Berkeley Software lawyers battled in court, lead developers of various BSD distributions quarreled on Usenet. In 1995, Theo de Raadt, one of the founders of the NetBSD project, formed his own rival distribution, OpenBSD, as the result of a quarrel that he documents on his website. Mr. de Raadt's stubborn arrogance was later seen in his clash with Darren Reed, which resulted in the expulsion of IPF from the OpenBSD distribution.

    As personal rivalries took precedence over a quality product, BSD's codebase became worse and worse. As we all know, incompatibilities between each BSD distribution make code sharing an arduous task. Research conducted at MIT found BSD's filesystem implementation to be "very poorly performing." Even BSD's acclaimed TCP/IP stack has lagged behind, according to this study.

    Problems with BSD's codebase were compounded by fundamental flaws in the BSD design approach. As argued by Eric Raymond in his watershed essay, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, rapid, decentralized development models are inherently superior to slow, centralized ones in software development. BSD developers never heeded Mr. Raymond's lesson and insisted that centralized models lead to 'cleaner code.' Don't believe their hype - BSD's development model has significantly impaired its progress. Any achievements that BSD managed to make were nullified by the BSD license, which allows corporations and coders alike to reap profits without reciprocating the goodwill of open-source. Fortunately, Linux is not prone to this exploitation, as it is licensed under the GPL.

    The failure of BSD culminated in the resignation of Jordan Hubbard and Michael Smith from the FreeBSD core team. They both believed that FreeBSD had long lost its earlier vitality. Like an empire in decline, BSD had become bureaucratic and stagnant. As Linux gains market share and as BSD sinks deeper into the mire of decay, their parting addresses will resound as fitting eulogies to BSD's demise.

  79. The *BSD Wailing Song by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The *BSD Wailing Song

    What's left for me to see
    In my ship I sailed so far
    What can the answer be
    Don't know what the questions are.
    And after all I've done
    Still I cannot feel the sun
    Tell me save me
    In the end our lost souls must repent.
    I must know it is for certain
    Can it be the final curtain
    As long as the wind will blow
    I'll be searching high and low.
    Who knows what's really true
    They say the end is so near
    Why are we all so cruel
    We just fill ourselves with fear.
    And heaven and hell will turn
    All that we love shall burn
    Hear me trust me
    In the end our lost sould must repent.
    I must know it is for certain
    Can it be the final curtain
    As long as the wind will blow
    I'll be searching high and low
    Final curtain
    Final curtain

  80. "Crazy People" by JamesKPolk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So when is OpenBSD going to refund the US taxpayer's money that was taken from those "crazy people" at DARPA?

    Ingrateful deadbeats.

    1. Re:"Crazy People" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Since the U.S.A is currently running a massive deficit, it most likely wasnt tax payer money that was used. More likely, it was borrowed money from communist China and the sort.

  81. Re: .. AND now the SCO BABE!... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    MOM?!?

  82. It is official: *BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

    FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

    Fact: *BSD is dying

  83. Re: .. AND now the SCO BABE!... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Isn't BSD more or less dead? If I'm not mistaken, there is no longer any commercial support for BSD.

  84. The OpenBSD Wailing Song: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The *BSD Wailing Song:

    What's left for me to see
    In my ship I sailed so far
    What can the answer be
    Don't know what the questions are.
    And after all I've done
    Still I cannot feel the sun
    Tell me save me
    In the end our lost souls must repent.
    I must know it is for certain
    Can it be the final curtain
    As long as the wind will blow
    I'll be searching high and low.
    Who knows what's really true
    They say the end is so near
    Why are we all so cruel
    We just fill ourselves with fear.
    And heaven and hell will turn
    All that we love shall burn
    Hear me trust me
    In the end our lost sould must repent.
    I must know it is for certain
    Can it be the final curtain
    As long as the wind will blow
    I'll be searching high and low
    Final curtain
    Final curtain

  85. okay, it was actually really good this time by kraksmoka · · Score: 1

    until you guys went gangsta rap on it. damnit crazy openbsd canadians. hahahahha.

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  86. Re:I'm feeling so lonely...[I could cry] by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    heh