OpenBSD: 3.8 Song Available, Upcoming Release

TheOpenBSD project has a stable release once every 6 months, withOpenBSD 3.8 currently available forpre-order and scheduled for official availability on November 1'st, 2005. Each release of OpenBSD has its own song with a unique sound and theme [story], each available for download in ogg and mp3 format. The current release "song" is actually a four and a half minute radio play, titled "Hackers of the Lost RAID".

OpenBSD creator Theo de Raadt [interview] talks about the upcoming release and the choice of theme, "many wonderful new things have made it into OpenBSD 3.8, but we wanted to focus on one particular thing -- our support for native free-software RAID management on at least one brand of RAID card, those made by AMI." OpenBSD users relying onami MegaRAID controllers will welcome 3.8's newbioctl command [story], a framework that will be expanded to support additional controllers in future releases.