OpenBSD is released on a sixth month development cycle. [earlier story] Unlike many open source Operating Systems, there is no officially available ISO (CD image) for download. In our earlier interview with OpenBSD creator Theo de Raadt, he explained, "It simply does not make economic sense for us to reduce the CD sales we have now."

OpenBSD currently ships as a 3 CD set. With 3.1, available in June, there will be an extra fourth CD only available as an ISO for download. Additionally, the CD comes with a sheet of special OpenBSD stickers and a bonus music track. 3.0 included a song called E-Railed (OpenBSD Mix). 3.1 will include a song called Systemagic. MP3 versions and lyrics are available here.

From: Nick Nauwelaerts
To: misc AT openbsd.org
Subject: 3.1 goodies
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 15:11:57 +0200

Now that we're on the subject. Is 3.1 going to be a 3CD release as well?
And can we expect a new audio track?

// nick

From: Theo de Raadt
Subject: Re: 3.1 goodies
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:16:47 -0600

> Now that we're on the subject. Is 3.1 going to be a 3CD release as well?

Yes. There will be a 4th CD that cannot fit into the release,
containing the m68k architectures, which will be available as an ISO.
The other three will not be available as ISO.

> And can we expect a new audio track?

Yup.

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From: Miod Vallat
Subject: Re: 3.1 goodies
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 13:38:08 +0000

> Now that we're on the subject. Is 3.1 going to be a 3CD release as well?

3 CD for i386, alpha, macppc, sparc, sparc64 and vax, plus one iso image
(download only) of a fourth cd for the m68k-based architectures.

> And can we expect a new audio track?

Yes, and it rocks.

Miod

From: Andreas Krennmair
Subject: Re: 3.1 goodies
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:37:47 +0200

* Miod Vallat [02-04-15 15:55]:
> > And can we expect a new audio track?
> Yes, and it rocks.

Just curious, what's the contents of such an audio track? (I never had
an OpenBSD CD in my hands for more than a few hours)

Regards,
--
Andreas Krennmair
Member of FSF Austria

From: Sebastian Stark
Subject: Re: 3.1 goodies
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 21:22:31 +0200

> Just curious, what's the contents of such an audio track?

Music?

--
Free your mind and your ass will follow -- http://www.funkaffair.de

From: Frank Hale
Subject: Re: 3.1 goodies
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:28:38 -0700 (PDT)

> Music?

WOW, really? What kind of music jackass?

From: Dave Taira
Subject: Re: 3.1 goodies
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:09:00 -0700 (PDT)

*sigh* The unspoken message is: buy the CDs and find out.

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| Dave Taira                                     2002.04.16/15:09:01 PDT |
| Morlock for Hire                                                       |
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| Darn! A perfectly good brain...wasted.              --"The Iron Giant" |+------------------------------------------------------------------------+

From: Dries Schellekens
Subject: Re: 3.1 goodies
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:26:57 +0200 (CEST)

The songs of 3.0 and 3.1 are now downloadable from the website. Check out
http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html

Greetings,

Dries

From: Ralph Forsythe
Subject: Re: 3.1 goodies
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:46:12 -0600

Those 3.1 lyrics are funny as hell! "Vampire omellete, kitten
cake"... Long night at the bar guys? =)

-rf