The FreeBSD Soundtrack Collection

Verse 1

June heat on the console,
fifteen-one comes alive,
second spark of stable branches,
kernels burning, systems thrive.

Wireless signals glowing,
newer code beneath the sky,
packets cut through ember
where the old machines still fly.

Pre-Chorus

Choose your path at boot time,
let the scheduler blaze,
spin the disks or wake the cloud,
light the daemon through the haze.

Chorus

Boot into the red,
FreeBSD, full speed ahead,
from amd64 highways
to riscv64 spread.
Write it to the memstick,
send it through the cloud,
fifteen-one is rising,
bright and fierce and proud.

Verse 2

Base comes packed in images,
first boot strikes the flame,
updates like a flare line
calling out a brand-new name.

C speaks toward tomorrow,
twenty-three in sight,
Unicode keeps glowing
with four thousand sparks of light.

Pre-Chorus

Checksums in the firelight,
signatures held high,
trust is not a slogan,
it’s the proof the bits comply.

Chorus

Boot into the red,
FreeBSD, full speed ahead,
from armv7 footpaths
to powerpc tread.
Write it to the memstick,
spin it on ZFS,
fifteen-one is rising
with a hot and steady breath.

Bridge

For Peter, draw the boundary,
capability and care,
old ideas still guarding
new machines everywhere.
From Multics ghosts to modern hosts,
security’s refrain:
the lessons that we carry
are the roots inside the chain.

Final Chorus

Boot into the red,
FreeBSD, full speed ahead,
clouds and boards and servers
all waking from the dead.
Livefs for rescue,
ports beneath red stars,
fifteen-one is ready—
the future boots from where we are.