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Lyrics to OpenBSD 3.7 Song Released 65

Posted by timothy from the openbsd-will-outlive-dick-clark dept.
Eh-Wire writes "Theo has announced the release of the lyrics to the OpenBSD 3.7 song "The Wizard of OS". Theo writes in the announcement, "Please be sure read the commentary I have written next to the lyrics of the song. The artwork and lyrics for each of our releases relate to something big we have been dealing with over the last 6 months of the release -- our fight to get programming documentation and redistributable firmwares.""
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Lyrics to OpenBSD 3.7 Song Released

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  • Man... (Score:4, Funny)

    by 0x461FAB0BD7D2 ( 812236 ) on Tuesday April 19, 2005 @07:56PM (#12288036) Journal
    that's not half as catchy as Ballmer's Developers! Developers! [ntk.net]
    • WHOA! WHOA! WHOA!
      Come on! Get Up!
      WHOA!
      Give it up for me!

      God, I cannot belive that guy kept his job. When you see stuff like that Ballmer so seems mentally inadiquite for a gas attendant, yet there he is, still running one of the biggest companies around.

      I hope their next CEO is a well built woman, at least her screaming and jumping around would be more funny than sad.

      • God, I cannot belive that guy kept his job.

        I think God is the correct word here. Is it just me, or are those videos reminiscent of one of these crazy religious evangelists that we see on TV?

        He is commanding the faithful it would seem. What a fucking wanker. "Give it up for me!"? I think maybe he should give up the jelly filled Krispy Kremes and go on a long term course of sedatives and psycho therapy.
    • i need more
      this is the perfect place funny geek vids and on topic

  • 3.6 was better (Score:4)

    by QuantumG ( 50515 ) <qg@biodome.org> on Tuesday April 19, 2005 @08:10PM (#12288146) Homepage Journal
    Pond-erosa Puff was actually funny, witty and told a story. Wizard of OS is a bit of a step down.

    • Re:3.6 was better (Score:5, Informative)

      by Nimrangul ( 599578 ) on Tuesday April 19, 2005 @08:23PM (#12288267) Journal
      3.3 and 3.1 were the best songs as far as the music itself goes, I side with 3.1 my self. Let's see what they've done so far:

      3.0 was obviously a kinda techno-trance deal - Puff Daddy
      3.1 was a more solid rock song, mid 90s style, almost Rammsteiny - Puffy the Kittenslayer
      3.2 was the Bond ballad, not my cup of tea - James Pond
      3.3 was more 80s rock, cool though - Puff the Barbarian
      3.4 was strange, I'd almost call it folk and medieval combined - Puffy Hood
      3.5 was a comedic parody of Monty Python - no real theme for Puff
      3.6 was a Johnny Cash styled country - a Clint Eastwoody "Pond-erosa" Puff
      3.7 was a 70s, Pink Floydesque rock song - Puffathy

      I still hope for a release with an Open C Compiler, just so they can have a Kid Rock styled theme song and a Puff with a handlebar mustache riding a chopper, and maybe a release based on the Marx Brothers, a Puff for each Marx would be nice.

      What are the other OpenBSD fans out there hoping for some day?

      • Re:3.6 was better (Score:3, Funny)

        by grub ( 11606 )

        What are the other OpenBSD fans out there hoping for some day?

        Motorhead grinding away as Lemmy grunts "OpenBSD kiss Puffy and pucker... [groan] OpenBSD, secure motherfucker...[cough]"

        Sorry, have Motorhead on the brain, seeing them this Friday. Woo hoo, deaf for 3 days!

        • Re:3.6 was better (Score:1, Funny)

          by Anonymous Coward
          Sort of fitting I guess since Lemmy (surprisingly) isn't dead either.

      • Re:3.6 was better (Score:3, Interesting)

        by QuantumG ( 50515 )
        As far as musical merit goes you're probably right, but I liked Pond-erosa for the comedy value.. hearin' that fish "lose his cool" made my day.

      • Re:3.6 was better (Score:2, Interesting)

        by Anonymous Coward
        What are the other OpenBSD fans out there hoping for some day?

        For the shorter term:

        Unified Buffer Cache. [netbsd.org] OpenBSD's FAQ, up to v1.49, suggested that it was on their todo list, "This option may change when the Unified Buffer Cache is completed and is part of OpenBSD", but this was taken out completely from v1.50 of the FAQ. Apparently because the section in the FAQ on tweaking the Buffer Cache with BUFCACHEPERCENT "gets people into serious trouble". So the reference to UBC went with it.

        I hope this does n
      • "3.7 was a 70s, Pink Floydesque rock song - Puffathy"

        It scares me how true this is. It's almost a complete PF remix, played worse. I see definite elements ripped right from Dark Side, and small bits of others... but it's so notable and clear it's disturbing.

        A bit of a travesty, but meh, at least their taste in music to rip off is good.
      • Hoping for 3d Acceleration support, though that's largely out of their hands. Other than that I think OpenBSD is pratically as usable as Linux, and considering the joys of the dependancyless ports tree, perhaps even more usable. I use OpenBSD with GNOME as my main OS and surprisingly it's the only Open Source OS that supports my wireless card, although I have to use a nightly build as support only came after the last release. Wireless functionality is one of the main aims of the upcoming release and it cer

  • Well.... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by jd ( 1658 ) <imipakNO@SPAMyahoo.com> on Tuesday April 19, 2005 @08:45PM (#12288427) Homepage Journal
    The software is good. No question about it. The approach they are following is undoubtably on the right lines. Their artwork is better than that on many distro sites. They have a pretty reasonable mix of pragmatism and idealism.


    Their filk... well... uhhhh... I feel certain better can be done. Hell, even I write better. They're working with the news since the last release. The British 60s satirical news series "That Was The Week That Was" had a song for every week's news - with infinitely more bite, even with an infinitely smaller timeframe.


    I like the idea of a song roundup. I found many of the songs in Spitting Image to be as powerful and as cutting as any of their sketches. I just think that they need someone who can pen some better lyrics.

  • Did no one read the mentioned commentary? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by bersl2 ( 689221 ) on Tuesday April 19, 2005 @08:58PM (#12288543) Journal
    Send a message that open support for hardware matters. A vendor in Redmond largely continues their practices because they get the chipset documentation years before everyone else does. What really upsets us the most is that some Linux vendors are signing Non-Disclosure Agreements with vendors, or contracts that let them distribute firmwares. Meanwhile both Linux and FSF head developers are not asking their communities to help us in our efforts to free development information for all, but are even going further and telling their development communities to not work with us at pressuring vendors. It is ridiculous.

    Can someone explicitly corroborate or refute this statement? If that's true, that's pretty low.
    • The first part is probably true. What I really care about is the accused suppression.
    • Sure. A lot of people think calling the HR person at company X to get hardware documentation is just going to alienate people. If these hardware companies want to keep their documentation secret, that's fine, they should be allowed to, and if you don't like it, don't buy their product. As for some Linux vendors signing NDAs, they're just doing what they consider best for their customers.. if their customers don't like that they should tell them and stop buying their product until they rectify the situati

  • Mention of OpenBSD in a Forbes article (Score:5, Interesting)

    by strlen ( 117515 ) on Tuesday April 19, 2005 @11:00PM (#12289420) Homepage
    Somewhat of off-topic, but did anyone else catch a mention of OpenBSD in a late issue of Forbes magazine? (Url is hnya [forbes.com]).,
    in the context of a young enterpreuner selling wifi access point / firewall combos, hoping to compete with Cisco? Granted OpenBSD was mentioned once [as opposed to a whole centerfold and a cover story they had on Linux several years ago], but it's still not bad for a mainstream publication.

  • What the... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Just Some Guy ( 3352 ) <kirk+slashdot@strauser.com> on Wednesday April 20, 2005 @09:58AM (#12292449) Homepage Journal
    Does the wizard behind the curtain look a lot like RMS sitting on a toilet?

    I'd pry my eyeballs out, but I don't want that to be the last image that crossed my retinas.

  • Dark Side of Oz (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Zakias ( 444869 )
    Roger Waters would sue you... except the lawyer's dead! LOL j/k - no seriously, it's great that the OpenBSD group did the whole Wizard of Oz/Pink Floyd theme. I'm pretty certain there's a bunch of /.'ers around that have never done this so here's the connection:

    Requirements:
    Wizard of Oz DVD or VHS
    Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon CD

    1. Hit play then pause on the CD, so it's ready to play at an instant's notice, but make sure it's at 0:00 or your sync will be off
    2. Start the movie. Just at the end of th

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