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OpenBSD 4.8 is available for preorder!

Contributed by weerd on from the mexican-standoff dept.

OpenBSD 4.8 cover

Pre-orders are now being accepted for OpenBSD 4.8, which is scheduled for release on November 1st, 2010.

The biggest new feature in this release is the vastly improved suspend and resume support. Thanks to the hard work of certain key developers, most newer laptops (those with ACPI instead of APM) can now be suspended and subsequently brought back to life. As usual, many other improvements have been made, the plus48 page lists them all.

Please read on for Theo's announcement to misc

Subject: OpenBSD 4.8 pre-orders are up
From: Theo de Raadt 
To: misc@cvs.openbsd.org
Date: 2010-09-08 19:52:27

OpenBSD 4.8 can now be pre-ordered.  The release date will be Nov 1.
As usual, the CDs will ship a bit before the official release.

    http://www.openbsd.org/48.html

Some of the webpage content does not yet show what is coming in 4.8.
Please be patient with us as we try to add those details.  (Many of
you already know the real shining achievement for the release is
suspend-resume for ACPI-based laptops, but there are many other
things).

Pre-orders are up at the North American order site, as well as the
European site:

    http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html

or directly to:

    https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order
    http://www.openbsdeurope.com/

This release has no tshirt.  The main reason is that the release
artwork didn't go nicely onto a tshirt which could "stand on it's
own"; we also failed to design a non-release related piece of art as
an alternative.  We would be very happy if people bought some of the
older tshirts though!  Next release, there will be a tshirt again.

I am also making the song available at the same time.  As usual, that
page contains a taste of the release artwork.

    http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html

So download the new release song (in MP3 or OGG), play it loud, and head on over to the order page to make sure you get your set before the 1st of November.

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Comments
  1. By Yendor (yendor) on

    Gosh,
    here we are days later and there is no swarm of replies stating that the author of each has pre-ordered already.

    As someone who is soundly asleep most days around the time of Theo's message (he's on -0600, I'm on +1000) I don't expect to be the first to order but I sure hope this silence does not mean that I'm the only customer.

    Anyway, just to be a stirrer my order was placed on 9/9 but the reply shows that it survived its trip across the IDL and is registered as:
    2010/9/8-15:10:27-30986

    C'mon guys, stir up your friends and clients to support the cause!

    Comments
    1. By Raymond Lillard (rlillard) on

      > Anyway, just to be a stirrer my order was placed on 9/9 but the reply shows that it survived its trip across the IDL and is registered as:
      > 2010/9/8-15:10:27-30986

      Just braggin' but I'm 2010/9/8-13:57:41-16541. What's an hour and a bit amongst friends.

      Just by coincidence, I was reading CVS commit mail and saw the message modifying the web page. I went to the site and there it was. In the time it took to enter and submit my information, Theo's announcement to misc came in. While reading it, my confirmation arrived.

      I don't know if I'm first or not, but his is way cooler than being first poster on /. ;-) I don't spend enough time there to have even been close to first there.

      I hope millions follow me. I make my clients buy CDs since there are no license fees, I think they need to pay something. This time I decided to get one for myself.

  2. By Luis (lcortes) luisjcortes@gmail.com on

    Thanks for making my life easier! OpenBSD developers are AWESOME!

    Your order currently is:
    -> 1 [CD48] OpenBSD 4.8 CD @ CDN $50.00
    -> 1 [T31] PuffyTron Shirt (L) @ CDN $25.00
    -> 1 [M1] Puffy Mug @ CDN $20.00
    -> Total: CDN $95.00 + Shipping.

    done.

    Comments
    1. By Luis (lcortes) on

      > Thanks for making my life easier! OpenBSD developers are AWESOME!
      >
      > Your order currently is:
      > -> 1 [CD48] OpenBSD 4.8 CD @ CDN $50.00
      > -> 1 [T31] PuffyTron Shirt (L) @ CDN $25.00
      > -> 1 [M1] Puffy Mug @ CDN $20.00
      > -> Total: CDN $95.00 + Shipping.
      >
      > done.
      >

      btw, I like the guitar in the release song. Who needs words when it can be expressed through guitar :)

  3. By Richard Toohey (richardtoohey) richardtoohey@paradise.net.nz on

    Well, I can't beat those times!

    I'll be plugging OpenBSD on Software Freedom Day ... just to remind people that there's more to life than Linux/Ubuntu!

    Thanks to the developers for another release.

  4. By Damien Petrilli (damien) damien.petrilli@free.fr on

    Sad there is no more commentary to the song since many release. I used to read them to know what happens the last 6 months in the open source world, and to check who where the traitors :P

    Comments
    1. By CODOR (CODOR) on

      > Sad there is no more commentary to the song since many release. I used to read them to know what happens the last 6 months in the open source world, and to check who where the traitors :P

      Without lyrics it's hard to tell. Zero appears to be a masked hero who has defeated a greedy landowner. But Zero himself is not so good -- he's got the peasants in forced labour, picking laptops for him which he then sells. This might be a reference to OpenSolaris: Oracle/Sun (see the setting sun in the background of the second frame) tries to become the darling of the open-source world by opening up Solaris -- but with significant proprietary bits and an odd license. Improvements from the community are incorporated into commercial versions of Solaris, but not so much the other way around.

      El Puffiachi, meanwhile, plays his guitar as the peasants are incited to rise up against Zero. In the final frame El Puffiachi is revealed to be a great fighter himself, and shows everyone what a real Open operating system is before moving on to the next town. Meanwhile in our world, OpenSolaris is pretty much dead, while OpenBSD is still here...

      Of course, this could be entirely wrong. I need CD art and stickers to verify :-)
      Order 2010/9/9-7:21:50-16435, BTW...

      Comments
      1. By Damien Petrilli (damien) on

        2010/9/9-7:21:50-16435, BTW...
        Thanks for your story, I can sleep now ! :p

      2. By CODOR (CODOR) on

        Interesting... I just noticed that the Sun rising around Puffy's head in the final frame resembles a halo...

  5. By Andres Delfino (adelfino) adelfino@gmail.com on

    Order number 2010/9/10-17:51:29-10709:
    Your order currently is:
    -> 1 [CD48] OpenBSD 4.8 CD @ CDN $50.00
    -> Total: CDN $50.00 + Shipping.

    \o/!

  6. By Peter J. Philipp (pjp) pjp@solarscale.de on http://centroid.eu

    I just pre-ordered mine from OpenBSD Europe. With shipping, shipping insurance, and paypal fees this cost 49.86 Euros. I sure hope that as much money with the purchase go to deraadt (in profits) as I'd usually donate when I don't buy the CD.

    Comments
    1. By OpenBSD Europe Staff (openbsdeurope) on http://www.openbsdeurope.com

      > I just pre-ordered mine from OpenBSD Europe. With shipping, shipping insurance, and paypal fees this cost 49.86 Euros. I sure hope that as much money with the purchase go to deraadt (in profits) as I'd usually donate when I don't buy the CD.

      Of course.

      We don't have a single CAD outstanding. Austin ships and the full balance is paid straight away.

  7. By Howard Pepper (HowiPepper) on

    Pre-ordered my CD set this morning, also added in a $50 donation:

    Order number 2010/9/11-10:9:57-xxxxx:
    Your order currently is:
    -> 1 [CD48] OpenBSD 4.8 CD @ CDN $50.00
    -> CDN $50.00 [DON] DONATION to the OpenBSD Project
    -> Total: CDN $100.00 + Shipping.

    (the 'xxxxx' is in there to protect the innocent!)

    Can't wait for it to come out! :D

    Comments
    1. By Howard Pepper (HowiPepper) on

      > Pre-ordered my CD set this morning, also added in a $50 donation:
      >

      <snip!>

      And just got the shipping confirmation this afternoon!

  8. By Rikard Lang (rixard) rikard.lang@gmail.com on http://www.rikardlang.se

    I have also preordered - gotta love the quality of both the system itself as well as the DVD set.

    Comments
    1. By Rikard Lang (rixard) on http://www.rikardlang.se

      > I have also preordered - gotta love the quality of both the system itself as well as the DVD set.

      I meant to say CD not DVD, clumsy old me.

      OpenBSD was the first *nix system I used and after trying a ton of different linux, os x and other BSDs I feel so at home using OBSD. I like it for its philosophy and also how easy it is to use - even for a simple luser like myself. Reading the super awesome man pages is often all I need to figure something out. That's a testament to the quality of the man pages; not my level of comprehension ;)

      I buy the cd set feeling happy and proud.

  9. By Peter J. Philipp (pjp) pjp@solarscale.de on http://centroid.eu

    So people who went to EuroBSDCon got their CD's this weekend. When can we expect our pre-orders? I guess it's a little more vanity if you actually go to a Con. No biggy, but I'm just wondering.

    Cheers,
    -peter

    Comments
    1. By Anonymous Coward (swilly) on

      > When can we expect our pre-orders?

      Quick snippet from a mail that I received earlier today:

      "USPS tracking number XXXXXX assigned to a shipment as follows"

      4.8 appears to be shipping :-D

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