OpenBSD 6.1 song – “Winter of 95”

OpenBSD 6.1 song – “Winter of 95”(openbsd.org)

36 points by mykhal 9 years ago | 6 comments

jandrese 9 years ago |

That page just keeps on going, song after song after song, each with their own cover...

protomyth 9 years ago | |

The 3.1 version[1] of Systemagic was always a fun one to blast in a server room. I remember the song it parodies being an early video music channel favorite but the name escapes me.

Quite a few of them tell the history of the OpenBSD project and some of their thoughts on others. I also love the illustrations.

1) https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#31

zokier 9 years ago | | |

Sounds a lot like Rammstein

sp332 9 years ago |

If you get through this page and you're jonesing for more tech-oriented covers, Iliad had a ton of these over the run of the User Friendly comic strip. http://www.userfriendly.org/archivist/gallery/songs.html No audio though, you'll have to sing them yourself :)

mykhal 9 years ago |

oh, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14207815

protomyth 9 years ago | |

Don't worry about it. Some of these things hit at different times, and this place is often a chaos engine for timing.

The song is nice, but I think the story of the song and the sidebar with the story of anoncvs is a pretty cool point in OS history. The idea of an active code control available to the public had to evolve like all the other ideas and the origin is pretty interesting.