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Wind River CEO Unexpectedly Resigns

Posted by Hemos on from the going-on-with-bidness dept.

The Finn writes "According to Electronics Weekly Wind River CEO Tom St. Dennis resigned today and left Wind River. For those who forgot, Wind River assumed stewardship of FreeBSD as part of the BSDi acquisition in May 2001, and subsequently Cut it loose in January 2002, and it still sells BSD /OS 5.0. I'll avoid the speculation of BSD dying, but Wind River may not be looking so good."

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  1. Wind River CEO unexpectedly quit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Doesn't supprise me, their software seems to do the same thing.

  2. Wind River and BSD problems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    It is not as though it were unexpected. I mean I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you BSD fans? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a BSD machine (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this BSD machine, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

    In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.

    I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various BSDs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a BSD that has run faster than its Windows counterpart, despite the faster chip in the BSD machine. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 MHz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that BSD is a superior machine.

    BSD addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a BSD over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.