This release is OpenBSD 4.9. Then why is the song about 4.2? Huh?
The OpenBSD 4.4 release artwork honoured the (Berkeley) CSRG guys for their efforts with the BSD 4.4 release -- they fought and managed to free the code.
This release the artwork is based on the stories of Douglas Adams, including his favorite number -- 42. Therefore we can remember the previous major achievement of CSRG - BSD 4.2.
BSD 4.2 was not free, but it created and integrated so many new technologies that we all depend on today. Take a moment to consider how many things first available in BSD 4.2 you are using at this moment, to read this page -- sockets, AF_INET, virtual memory, etc.
Today, new releases of operating systems from well-known vendors contain less new features than BSD 4.2 did.
If only we could stop slacking and make a release like that!
This release is OpenBSD 4.9. Then why is the song about 4.2? Huh?
The OpenBSD 4.4 release artwork honoured the (Berkeley) CSRG guys for their efforts with the BSD 4.4 release -- they fought and managed to free the code.
This release the artwork is based on the stories of Douglas Adams, including his favorite number -- 42. Therefore we can remember the previous major achievement of CSRG - BSD 4.2.
BSD 4.2 was not free, but it created and integrated so many new technologies that we all depend on today. Take a moment to consider how many things first available in BSD 4.2 you are using at this moment, to read this page -- sockets, AF_INET, virtual memory, etc.
Today, new releases of operating systems from well-known vendors contain less new features than BSD 4.2 did.
If only we could stop slacking and make a release like that!