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OpenBSD 4.3 pre-orders arriving

Contributed by johan on from the first-in-first-out dept.

Paul de Weerd writes in to tell us that he has just received his pre-ordered copy of OpenBSD 4.3.

The new 4.3 CD set has just arrived here in Zurich, Switzerland ! I've put up a pic .. looking very cool yet again ;)

Thanks to all the developers for another very cool release.

And thanks to you Paul and the rest of you who pre-ordered the CDs.
For those of you who've got your CD sets, please post a dmesg from your computer running 4.3 release here!

For those of you who haven't already ordered your CD set, do so right away (International, Europe)!

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  1. By Anonymous Coward (74.13.60.58) on

    Nice, Crypto/Argo there made me chuckle.

  2. By Anonymous Coward (129.69.212.94) on

    Oh noes we need the song!

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      1. By Anonymous Coward (128.171.90.200) on

        It appears that the songs have not made it onto the FTP server :O(

        ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song43.{mp3,ogg}

  3. By Anonymous Coward (194.245.32.131) on

    tracking says, mine should arrive today, too. thanks to the devs for another great release.

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    1. By John Wright (dryfish) on

      Mine's on the way too. I shall be reloading the UPS tracking page frequently. Looking forward to reading the story in the DVD booklet.

  4. By Jasper Valentijn (84.105.15.126) on

    Got my UPS tracking number yesterday. Today is the expected delivery date. Can't wait to put them cds in the waiting machines. I'd also like to thank the usual suspects for an other undoubtedly great release!

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    1. By Anonymous Coward (84.105.15.126) on

      The UPS truck just dropped my a nice package! Thanks for the service Wim! Thanks for the PF book Peter! Thanks for OpenBSD Theo and team!

  5. By Anonymous Coward (81.82.207.55) on

    I'll be cvsupping and donating, no need for CDs. But hey, thanks for another great release guys :) Keep it up. Now about that WPA2.... ;)

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    1. By Anonymous Coward (24.37.242.64) on

      > I'll be cvsupping and donating, no need for CDs. But hey, thanks for another great release guys :) Keep it up. Now about that WPA2.... ;)

      cvs'ing doesn't come with stickers. Hopefully those who say they'll donate instead, actually do - anything is better than nothing.

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      1. By Anonymous Coward (81.82.207.55) on

        > > I'll be cvsupping and donating, no need for CDs. But hey, thanks for another great release guys :) Keep it up. Now about that WPA2.... ;)
        >
        > cvs'ing doesn't come with stickers. Hopefully those who say they'll donate instead, actually do - anything is better than nothing.

        I don't have anything to put stickers on ;). And I always donate after I download a new release. Not the full 50EUR, but still a contribution. One does what one can.

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        1. By takahide (takahide) on http://thorntwig.se/

          > I don't have anything to put stickers on ;).

          I put a Puffy sticker on my cellphone. Incredibly enough people do notice it and ask questions :).

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          1. By Anonymous Coward (134.58.253.57) on

            > > I don't have anything to put stickers on ;).
            >
            > I put a Puffy sticker on my cellphone. Incredibly enough people do notice it and ask questions :).

            I put a JPEG with Puffy as my cellphone's background image. And yes, people notice it, and like it. :-)

  6. By Anonymous Coward (87.226.77.47) on

    Ok WHY should I order a CD Set?
    OpenBSD does not earn anything from T-Shirt sales so what does the project earn from CD Sets?

    And I wont get told "They get a share". I would like to get a public discussion or explantation of the financial status and howmuch the project does earn from CD sales.

    It is meaningless to order a CD set if the Project does not get the full 50EUR/CAN.

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    1. By Marc Espie (163.5.254.20) espie@openbsd.org on

      > Ok WHY should I order a CD Set?
      > OpenBSD does not earn anything from T-Shirt sales so what does the project earn from CD Sets?
      >
      > And I wont get told "They get a share". I would like to get a public discussion or explantation of the financial status and howmuch the project does earn from CD sales.
      >
      > It is meaningless to order a CD set if the Project does not get the full 50EUR/CAN.

      It does. Apart from manufacturing costs and shipment.

      If you question it, don't order the CD set, donate directly to the project.

    2. By Anonymous Coward (129.128.29.241) on

      > Ok WHY should I order a CD Set?

      So OpenBSD continues to exist.


      > OpenBSD does not earn anything from T-Shirt sales so what does the
      > project earn from CD Sets?

      Hopefully enough to continue to exist.

      > And I wont get told "They get a share". I would like to get a public
      > discussion or explantation of the financial status and howmuch the
      > project does earn from CD sales.

      You would like what? To know the full financial details of a
      private project? Wow, you've got some balls.

      > It is meaningless to order a CD set if the Project does not get the full
      > 50EUR/CAN.

      Well, the CD's obviously cost something to make...

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      1. By Anonymous Suit (76.99.231.252) on

        "You would like what? To know the full financial details of a private project? Wow, you've got some balls."

        If any project asks for donations, people have a right to ask where that money goes. A project also has the right not to offer that information, but providing it and proving how much goes to the goals of the project would definitely help in fund raising.

        I am very skeptical of charities and projects asking for donations. I don't know anything about the financial status of OpenBSD, but I have no reservations that the money donated is well spent to create a quality product.

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        1. By Anonymous Coward (69.28.228.76) on

          > "You would like what? To know the full financial details of a private project? Wow, you've got some balls."
          >
          > If any project asks for donations, people have a right to ask where that money goes. A project also has the right not to offer that information, but providing it and proving how much goes to the goals of the project would definitely help in fund raising.
          >
          > I am very skeptical of charities and projects asking for donations. I don't know anything about the financial status of OpenBSD, but I have no reservations that the money donated is well spent to create a quality product.
          >

          So, then do your homework: <http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/>

          If you don't want to pay for a CD set or a t-shirt because some of the cost it may go toward the cost of production (oh noes! OpenBSD is not free of the market economy!), or you don't want to donate directly because you hate making cheques out to Theo, you can support the OBSD foundation.

          Or you can leach releases off FTP. Your choice.

          Personally, I have no problem with a t-shirt and CD set 1-2 times a year. It's far cheaper than the money I waste of coffee and beer in a single month.

    3. By Anonymous Coward (213.118.21.25) on

      > Ok WHY should I order a CD Set?
      > OpenBSD does not earn anything from T-Shirt sales so what does the

      OpenBSD does not earn anything from you downloading the software, so why download it? The T-Shirts have nice geeky artwork on it, the same for the cd sets ... Like Marc said, you can just donate the money if you like.

    4. By Anonymous Coward (74.13.60.58) on

      > Ok WHY should I order a CD Set?
      > OpenBSD does not earn anything from T-Shirt sales so what does the project earn from CD Sets?
      >
      > And I wont get told "They get a share". I would like to get a public discussion or explantation of the financial status and howmuch the project does earn from CD sales.
      >
      > It is meaningless to order a CD set if the Project does not get the full 50EUR/CAN.

      C'est juste comme Marc indique, donnent si vous n'aimez pas l'idée des bénéfices allant à d'autres parties.

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      1. By Anonymous Coward (84.194.45.166) on

        > C'est juste comme Marc indique, donnent si vous n'aimez pas l'idée des bénéfices allant à d'autres parties.

        Why is this modded -7? He makes a perfectly valid point. I'll be kind enough to translate:

        "It's just like Marc says, donate if you don't like the idea of money going to other parties."

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        1. By Brynet (Brynet) on

          > Why is this modded -7?

          Unfortunately, because it was French.. posting in French on a clearly English-oriented site is ignorant, easily mistaken for spam.

          It's a cruel world, adapt.

    5. By Anonymous Coward (59.167.252.29) on

      > Ok WHY should I order a CD Set?
      > OpenBSD does not earn anything from T-Shirt sales so what does the project earn from CD Sets?
      >
      > And I wont get told "They get a share". I would like to get a public discussion or explantation of the financial status and howmuch the project does earn from CD sales.
      >
      > It is meaningless to order a CD set if the Project does not get the full 50EUR/CAN.

      Theo has managed to keep the OpenBSD project churning out great things for 10 years. If he says that CD sales help the project and requests purchases, then that is all I need to hear.

      Donate hardware or money if you want your contribution to be 100% directed to OpenBSD.

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      1. By Pieter Verberne (80.126.42.203) pieterverberne@xs4all.nl on

        > > Ok WHY should I order a CD Set?
        > > OpenBSD does not earn anything from T-Shirt sales so what does the project earn from CD Sets?
        > >
        > > And I wont get told "They get a share". I would like to get a public discussion or explantation of the financial status and howmuch the project does earn from CD sales.
        > >
        > > It is meaningless to order a CD set if the Project does not get the full 50EUR/CAN.
        >
        > Theo has managed to keep the OpenBSD project churning out great things for 10 years. If he says that CD sales help the project and requests purchases, then that is all I need to hear.

        Wikipedia does a great job in giving financial reports. I would really appreciate if OpenBSD does the same.

        See http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
        &
        http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/2/28/Wikimedia_2006_fs.pdf

  7. By Konstantin (83.135.109.240) on

    And another CD set of my favorite OS just arrived here in the Ruhr Area in Germany.

    Very nice stickers and artwork. Keep on going with your fine work.

    OpenBSD 4.3 (GENERIC) #698: Wed Mar 12 11:07:05 MDT 2008
    deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
    cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1133MHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.14 GHz
    cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE

  8. By Anonymous Coward (128.171.90.200) on

    I only put my order in yesterday :O(

  9. By Lawrence Teo (lteo) lteo.openbsd1 ! calyptix.com on http://www.calyptix.com/

    Arrived today too, in Charlotte, NC! Moral of the story is to order as soon as the order page is live. :)

  10. By Venture37 (venture37) venture37<A>hotmail.com on www.geeklan.co.uk

    Status: In Transit - On Time
    Scheduled Delivery: 11/04/2008


    Come on!

  11. By Anonymous Coward (216.68.194.96) on

    Got mine today, USA, midwest, boringville.

    As always very good artwork, with neat color contrast.
    Theme makes a good point, Freedom means you cannot dictate what others will do. Something that I really hope stays with BSD code and GPL as well. Otherwise you just can do much with the code, without paying a tithe to somebody.

    Sure would be interesting if OpenBSD made videos. Perhaps later.

    Thanks for another release.

  12. By Anonymous Coward (63.227.26.49) on

    Got mine yesterday, Colorado.

    I would like to install it on my Lenovo T61 that has Windows XP on it. Unfortunately, I need to dual boot, because work will require that "other" OS some of the time.

    Since it is a new laptop, I'm thinking I can:

    -use DISKPART from XP to make the Windows partition smaller
    -restore XP from the Rescue function
    -install OpenBSD from my cool CD in a new partition
    -dual boot

    am I on the right track?

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    1. By Marc Espie (213.41.185.88) espie@openbsd.org on

      > Got mine yesterday, Colorado.
      >
      > I would like to install it on my Lenovo T61 that has Windows XP on it. Unfortunately, I need to dual boot, because work will require that "other" OS some of the time.
      >
      > Since it is a new laptop, I'm thinking I can:
      >
      > -use DISKPART from XP to make the Windows partition smaller
      > -restore XP from the Rescue function
      > -install OpenBSD from my cool CD in a new partition
      > -dual boot
      >
      > am I on the right track?

      Yep... always a good idea to `test' the recovery feature of a windows install.

      Some OEM have dumb recovery programs, that will reformat and reinstall over the whole disk. To the best of my knowledge, the thinkpads are better... assuming things work, and your laptop is restored correctly, then installing OpenBSD should be a breeze.

      If your laptop partitioning gets erased, then you have no choice but to use some better repartitioning program... Very often though, the default partitioning contains a `program' and a `data' partition, the data partition being empty... so you can just resize that one in such a case.

      You can then dual-boot using windows's boot program, as documented in the FAQ. The old limit of `can only boot if root is within 4G' is long gone, so multi-boot installations are WAYS simpler.


    2. By Anonymous Coward (81.83.46.216) on

      > Got mine yesterday, Colorado.
      >
      > I would like to install it on my Lenovo T61 that has Windows XP on it. Unfortunately, I need to dual boot, because work will require that "other" OS some of the time.
      >
      > Since it is a new laptop, I'm thinking I can:
      >
      > -use DISKPART from XP to make the Windows partition smaller
      > -restore XP from the Rescue function
      > -install OpenBSD from my cool CD in a new partition
      > -dual boot
      >
      > am I on the right track?

      Read: http://openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multibooting
      about just using the windows boot loader to boot openbsd, I use it and really like it :)

  13. By Howard (68.209.134.179) on

    Anxiously awaiting my shipping notice! I have an HP notebook and a Dell desktop that WANT to be converted from Ubuntu Linux to OpenBSD.

    For the person questioning the ordering of CD sets, I want him/her to know that I buy a CD set at each release. That helps the OpenBSD project. I also buy a t-shirt, which helps the project even if they don't see a dime of profit from them. The more people who wear the t-shirts, the more free advertising the project gets.

    Oh, and I also chip in $25 Canadian as a donation with each order. I keep each order to an even $100 Canadian, and also donate extra money when asked for.

  14. By Espen Randen (espenra) espenra@gmail.com on

    I just got my 4.3 package today (Oslo, Norway).

  15. By therek (89.77.116.128) on

    Got mine today as well (Warsaw, Poland)

  16. By Howard (68.209.134.179) on

    Update: I just received my shipping notice email! Woo-hoo! looking forward to receiving my CD set and t-shirt (I'm proudly wearing my 3.8 t-shirt to my monthly ham radio meeting tonight... although none of the other hams will understand its meaning).

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    1. By Anonymous Coward (69.28.228.76) on

      > Update: I just received my shipping notice email! Woo-hoo! looking forward to receiving my CD set and t-shirt (I'm proudly wearing my 3.8 t-shirt to my monthly ham radio meeting tonight... although none of the other hams will understand its meaning).
      >

      What's your callsign? I'm working on my Basic Qualification in Ontario, Canada.

  17. By Richard Toohey (121.72.25.152) richardtoohey@hotmail.com on

    Got mine today - New Zealand. Thanks to all involved.

  18. By the wall guy (66.59.167.206) on

    Just received mine, but there is some letdown to the occasion. I want to upgrade a machine which includes kdenetwork and Nagios. I would rather set PKG_PATH and upgrade the packages than to compile everything from ports. I wonder if it would be possible to post the 4.3 packages ahead of the release date? It would only be used by those who have the pre-order CD's and offer another reason to pre-order. FWIW...

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