OpenBSD is based out of Canada. They run their power stations on renewable energy.
This climate change is a big threat, though it worked in our favour this time. Climate change caused heavy winds, which made the wind turbines turn a bit faster, generating a lot of power. Canadian power equipment is also a bit sensitive to sudden spikes in voltage/amperes. They sometimes discharge a few extra volts and assume nothing bad will happen to end users equipment. OpenBSD is compiled on processors (look up cell processors) which run faster when supplied more power. Hence a few days early as the compilation happened really fast. Regardless, I think it's climate change that we got to worry about more than an early release date. Vivek Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. Original Message From: Max Power Sent: Thursday 31 March 2016 14:46 To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: date not respect for 5.8 and 5.9 Hi guys! Why the release 5.8 and 5.9 did not comply with the canonical date of the 1th November and of the 1th May? Thanks in advance for your reply.
