>There is a comic related to the 4.2 release (which I'm too lazy to >find and reference at the moment) in which "puffy" and other related >creatures are in a race. Yes, I know the comic was OpenBSD produced >and centric, but it hit home anyway. > >There is a frame that shows a Daemon (representative of FreeBSD) >racing a penguin. That kind of solidified for me the feeling I always >had using FreeBSD that it was trying to be/compete with Linux. Don't >get me wrong, I applaud the FreeBSD team, but I'm not interested in >another religious OS argument. I can get that with OSX vs Windows.
The artwork, song and overall philosophy take a lot of references from the band Rush's "Synthesizer Period" in the early to mid-80s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_(band) While there are many sub-references to some songs from that period of the band's releases, the whole OpenBSD release has a healthy dose of the song "Marathon" from a philosophical standpoint, even though the release's song is more clearly stylized from "Distant Early Warning".
