OpenBSD: 3.8 Song Available, Upcoming Release

Submitted by Jeremy

on September 28, 2005 - 4:43am

OpenBSD news

The OpenBSD project has a stable release once every 6 months, with OpenBSD 3.8 currently available for pre-order and scheduled for official availability on November 1'st, 2005. Each release of OpenBSD has its own song with a unique sound and theme [story], each available for download in ogg and mp3 format. The current release "song" is actually a four and a half minute radio play, titled "Hackers of the Lost RAID".

OpenBSD creator Theo de Raadt [interview] talks about the upcoming release and the choice of theme, "many wonderful new things have made it into OpenBSD 3.8, but we wanted to focus on one particular thing -- our support for native free-software RAID management on at least one brand of RAID card, those made by AMI." OpenBSD users relying on ami MegaRAID controllers will welcome 3.8's new bioctl command [story], a framework that will be expanded to support additional controllers in future releases.

From: Theo de Raadt [email blocked]
To:  misc
Subject: OpenBSD 3.8 song
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:25:14 -0600

The OpenBSD 3.8 song is now available, at

	http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#38

Many wonderful new things have made it into OpenBSD 3.8, but we wanted
to focus on one particular thing -- our support for native
free-software RAID management on at least one brand of RAID card,
those made by AMI.

The song is entitled "Hackers of the Lost RAID".  I hope people
enjoy it.  Both ogg and mp3 versions are available.

But please also look at what is up and coming in 3.8

	http://www.openbsd.org/38.html

(As always, the song is released a little bit after pre-orders go up,
to encourage a few more people to order our CDs or tshirts, or donate
to the project.  It is this small bit of revenue that keeps our
project active at doing these things.  And... the hackathon hotel is
already pre-booked for next year :)

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Time to lose the CD?

BSD user (not verified)

September 28, 2005 - 9:27pm

I don't want a CD! But I could pay a reasonable sum direct to the project for download of the .iso images.

The CD:s are only making the manufacturer & Canadian post rich!

And guys, you can make a complete secure OS, but not an order page that tells total cost including shipping!

Posters

Anonymous (not verified)

September 29, 2005 - 1:26am

Buy some posters. That's partly what they're for.

http://www.openbsd.org/donati

Anonymous (not verified)

September 29, 2005 - 4:22am

http://www.openbsd.org/donations.html for donations.

As for the ISO: Build one yourself. There are no official ones as you know - but there are plenty of howtos available on the Net. And it really is not hard.