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OpenBSD 4.5 CDs arriving in Europe

Contributed by johan on from the looks-like-it-made-it-after-all dept.

User Peter Voigt earlier today told the misc mailing list that he had received his 4.5 CD set.

List:       openbsd-misc
Subject:    4.5 arrived in Bielefeld/Germany
From:       zpo peter.voigt1 () gmx ! net
Date:       2009-04-17 8:40:55

4.5 arrived in Bielefeld/Germany

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Comments

  1. By Anonymous Coward (88.217.106.138) on

    Can't be! Bielefeld doesn't exist! THEY are watching us...

    Comments

    1. By Anonymous Coward (77.176.242.3) on

      > Can't be! Bielefeld doesn't exist! THEY are watching us...

      Yep, this was my first thought, too!

      Comments

      1. By ben (benoit) on

        > > Can't be! Bielefeld doesn't exist! THEY are watching us...
        >
        > Yep, this was my first thought, too!

        In Cergy/France too... ;o)

  2. By Michiel van Baak (mvanbaak) undeadly@vanbaak.info on http://michiel.vanbaak.info

    4.5 CD set also arrived in DenHaag/Netherlands

  3. By Scott Vokes (silentbicycle) vokes.s@gmail.com on

    Mine arrived today, too! I'm in the US (in Michigan).

    Comments

    1. By Anonymous Coward (24.255.120.7) on

      > Mine arrived today, too! I'm in the US (in Michigan).

      Arrival in US - Northern Virginia today. Woot!

    2. By James (jturner) on http://bsdgroup.org

      > Mine arrived today, too! I'm in the US (in Michigan).

      Lucky, mine are still sitting in Detroit. Hopefully they will arrive tomorrow.

    3. By Anonymous Coward (66.114.33.28) on

      I received mine in Bellingham, WA.

  4. By Anonymous Coward (2001:6f8:1445:0:211:24ff:fec5:4115) on

    Too bad they are still not arrived in Belgium. Maybe Wim should also post them with UPS/DHL even when shipped to Belgium.

    Comments

    1. By Renaud Allard (renaud) on

      > Too bad they are still not arrived in Belgium. Maybe Wim should also post them with UPS/DHL even when shipped to Belgium.

      They are now also in Belgium :)
      The story about Wim is very sad tough (http://accounting.kd85.com/). I think I will buy him a few shirts.

      Comments

      1. By Sico Bruins (77.251.118.228) openbsd@msh.xs4all.nl on

        Got my CDs and my T-shirt a few days ago from Wim. Installed it on a test machine yesterday, runs just fine like I expected. Dunno where I will buy the 4.6 CDs but I will find out when I get there.

        Thanks for all the developers efforts to give me a new release of my favourite operating system!

        CU, Sico.

        --

  5. By Howard Pepper (HowiPepper) on

    Received mine in Florida, USA, today (along with my cool new t-shirt!).

  6. By Olden (204.29.239.20) on

    Arrived too here in California, yeah (you'd think it'd be faster then shipping oversea, but I guess the US postal service remains what it is...)
    Cool artwork; I enjoyed the "PacMan on PCB" on the back/inside case :)

    Of course I'm going to install it asap, today if I get to it. Frustrating part however: what about the packages/architectures not included on those CDs?
    The two options I see:
    * Get the source, compile all that stuff: time-consuming, inconvenient.
    * Wait another 2 weeks. (sucks)

    It would be extremely convenient to have the "off-CD" binaries at the same time as the official CDs.

    Would the Team be open to the idea of releasing ARM, alpha etc and packages as CDs start to ship (at this point, the release is finalized anyway)? Call it 'pre-4.5' or something if needed.
    Or include a temporary username+password for a private FTP server on the order confirmation and/or the receipt shipped with the CDs? Same for recent donations above a certain amount?

    That'd be an extra incentive for some to donate or buy the CDs, wouldn't it?

    Comments

    1. By Theo de Raadt (199.185.136.4) on

      > Would the Team be open to the idea of releasing ARM, alpha etc and packages as CDs start to ship (at this point, the release is finalized anyway)?


      We couldn't if we wanted to. They are still doing the first hop out
      to the top-level mirror. The network has been saturated for around 10 days already.

      This is Canada, after all. There is no Internet up here. I have 2.5Mbit total outbound, and that is more than any other house in Western Canada, I suspect, because every network provider says no, or asks for millions of dollars to run a fiber for 5 blocks.

  7. By Richard Toohey (121.72.5.70) on

    Arrived in Tauranga, New Zealand today (20th April.) Thanks to all behind the release!

  8. By Anonymous Coward (216.68.192.120) on

    4.5 and T-shirt, arrival in Ohio, USA.

    Thanks to Theo and Team for another great release.

  9. By templeto (templeto) on

    ... and today (4/20) in Madison, WI. But without stickers and the wrong t-shirt, oh well.

  10. By Bobby Bitman (bobbybitman) smallm@panix.com on

    This is crazy, but I swear I smelled popcorn and butter when I opened the package. I guess smell is strongly associated with memory, and the cover must have reminded me of when my mom took us to see Tron. Or someone was eating microwave popcorn while packaging these things?

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