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OpenBSD 3.3 Song 30

Posted by timothy from the marching-as-to-war dept.
flynn_nrg writes "Even although version 3.3 is not out yet, users can already enjoy the new 3.3 song: "Puff the Barbarian". Like other Barbarians before him, Puff has had to face some pretty crazy challenges. This song is an allegory of the recent difficulties we went through dealing with Sun, who refused our request for documentation about their UltraSPARC III processors. We want documentation, because these are the fastest processors with a per-page eXecute bit in the MMU, needed to fully support our new W^X security feature. In the meantime, the AMD Hammer has come onto the scene, and this processor supports an eXecute bit in 64-bit mode. And it is going to be faster... Both mp3 and ogg versions available."
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  • Scott McNealy: all alone and only bones (Score:5, Informative)

    by ubiquitin ( 28396 ) on Monday April 14, 2003 @04:00PM (#5731033) Homepage Journal
    At the tower Puff appealed
    For the wisdom of the One
    Denied, his mind did reel
    Puff was getting tired of Sun

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

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

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

  • Free music download? (Score:4, Funny)

    by dotgod ( 567913 ) on Monday April 14, 2003 @04:11PM (#5731131)
    You pirates just wait until the RIAA hears about this...

  • Doesn't work on Windows. (Score:3, Funny)

    by Daphnee Ewald ( 663971 ) on Monday April 14, 2003 @04:16PM (#5731191)
    I tried playing the download on my Windows XP machine, but every time I do I get this screen going flashing by saying something about "free software related file identified -- launching propaganda" and it starts playing some .NET advertizement instead.

  • Oh fuck (Score:1, Funny)

    by PD ( 9577 )
    Geeks definitely should not sing. There is a reason why Fox will never have a show called "Geek Idol".
    • Actually, I'm not a geek and I think their songs are pretty fucking cool. Very well made.
      • And, I think it's really cool to hear music that actually has something to say! Not just that, but something that never gets heard in a musical medium too. It's refreshing that they can pull it off. They're making social, political and personal statements in their music and it gets me excited,
        REEELEEEAASSEEE TIIIIIIMMME!!!

  • No ID3 tags (Score:3, Funny)

    by Yonder Way ( 603108 ) on Monday April 14, 2003 @04:33PM (#5731325)
    Anyone else find it annoying that the OpenBSD songs don't have ID3 tags giving proper attribution?

    I thought the whole point of using a BSD license over public domain was that BSD license gives credit.
    • When you run a program it doesn't print out who wrote it - that's only viewable in the source. The credit is all given on the webpage linked in the story.

      • Re:No ID3 tags (Score:4, Insightful)

        by Yonder Way ( 603108 ) on Monday April 14, 2003 @05:15PM (#5731640)
        Well when the file is copied and redistributed, there is no credit given to the musicians or to the OpenBSD project itself. It seems pretty pointless and lazy to not spend the 1 minute to fill in the ID3 tags before distributing the MP3's.

    • Re:No ID3 tags (Score:1, Informative)

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

      I do not want them.

      There are still some players that dislike them.

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

      I pay money to make sure it is free.

      taken from misc@ [theaimsgroup.com]

  • check it out. (Score:3, Informative)

    by 7-Vodka ( 195504 ) on Monday April 14, 2003 @06:02PM (#5731951) Journal
    I really really liked their 3.0 and 3.1 release songs. Systemagic and E-Railed. They're on the same page as the 3.3. What awesome promo for their most righteous OS. GG guys!

  • Already on /. (Score:4, Informative)

    by mirabilos ( 219607 ) on Monday April 14, 2003 @06:23PM (#5732089) Homepage
    I think it's pretty pointless that this is already
    on slashdot. Please give the mirrors time to update,
    and get the songs afterwards.

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

    will get you all of the songs 3.0 - 3.3 in the MP3
    versions, with lyrics. And I uploaded that back over
    my 16K link.
  • But did the opening verse sound a bit like Dr. Frank Furter? Time warp, anyone???

    Then the rest sounding a bit like slow Iron Maiden... *headbang*

    Max points for coolness, geekiness, and creativity!

  • Dio is back!

    Lookout!

    *grabs testicles*

  • is there a http download link for it? the evil sysadmins here at work block out ftp for us little people.

  • Where is the source (Score:4, Funny)

    by vesamies ( 240247 ) on Tuesday April 15, 2003 @03:53AM (#5734283)
    I was able to listen to the song in my pc ok, but how do I build it from source? Where are the makefiles?

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