Forget the artwork and check out the accompanying song and lyrics for the new release. I think it's one of the funnier ones so far. https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#80

It is clearly AI generated and that’s the message.

I suspect it is social commentary on the dangers of letting the machine do all your thinking for you.

I really like OpenBSD. I have used it for years. I feel the folks there are very helpful and awesome but I also do not like that graphic.

similar on the front page https://www.openbsd.org/index.html , "UNDSREA LREER"

it seems very much like social commentary.

> I am not on board with the graphic, whatever the heck it is.

They are purposefully iconoclast with whatever aesthetics are "socially acceptable" for mainstream nerds. For example, their use of comic-sans in official presentations. Here they use ridiculous slop in front of an audience of conservative unix hackers. You can find it funny with the right mindset.

The upgrade mechanism from 7.9 to 8.0 is still gloriously simple, and exactly the same as it has been for many years :

    ssh myopenbsdbox    # log-in to your machine
    doas sysupgrade     # will log you out, go drink some coffee
    ssh myopenbsdbox    # log-in to the upgraded machine

    doas sysmerge       # (optional) solve merge conflicts of your cfg files
    doas pkg_add -u     # (optional) upgrade local packages

This is an amazing image, I am fully on board with whatever it is.

Is the animation comically slow for anyone else?

I would just like to say that the Simpsons Already Did It: https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Blinky

It's a reference to your basic 'Baton Roue' meme.

I assume it's meant to represent the perspective of pro-AI people, but it's ambiguous.

It's like a pelican on a bicycle, but with social commentary.

OpenLSD, bicycle day edition?

Puffy's always looked kind of weird. I remember when they gave the damn fish human lips a few times and it always put me off

I would guess it is the pelican on a bicycle reimagined ;)

It's literally in the name

And so it begins.

SlopenBSD.

Disappointing OpenBSD is and all of software is descending into slop.

Don't care if it is satire or not.

Before they were anti-AI edgelords, they were anti-VM edgelords.

Now they ship their own hypervisor in the base system.

No, the major number has no special significance to OpenBSD. 8.0 is just what comes after 7.9.

as linus torvalds puts it: big numbers confuse me, so the next kernel version will be 7.0

Phoronix do test BSDs from time to time. But for different reasons I think OpenBSd missed twice. I hope to see the performance gap being close enough we can stop thinking it is very slow.

Here are some.

http://bluhm.genua.de/test.html

I agree that it's great but as an anecdote, I have an arch linux laptop i upgrade 1-2 times a year and it still works too, been that way since 2019 so went through major kernel upgrades without a hitch. Only thing that ever broke were nvidia drivers sometimes because it's an shudders OPTIMUS laptop. Last time I updated it, vibe coding wasn't widespread yet so I am wondering if new package versions will finally kill it if I were to upgrade it now

I like OpenBSD, but I don't think this is a specific reason to appreciate it as any decent OS these days has been upgradeable release upon release safely for more than 2 decades, regardless if it is a linux distro, an Open/Net/FreeBSD system, a macOS or Windows system.

I have an old(mutters to self don't look at date then I will feel old... Oh god it's from 2012) lenovo laptop that is my daily driver for portable ops. I run openbsd on it and... well it's perfect. sleeps perfectly, radio works well, I understand the OS. I will be very sad when it dies.

I did just re do the heatsink compound, so hopefully it has many years left, but I worry about the fan.

They come out approximately every May and October, and have for quite a while: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD#Releases

> Reliable human-made stuff

My guy.......

Reliable human stuff? Holy shit, I want whatever you are smoking.