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Wind River To Stop Selling BSD/OS

Posted by simoniker on from the difficult-to-predict-comments-response dept.

David writes "According to an article on Bsdnewsletter.com, OS company Wind River has said it will be stopping sales of BSD/OS on this December 31st, and product support exactly one year thereafter. Only 15 more weeks to grab the final 5.1 update before this piece of history might be gone forever..."

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  1. Re:The obligitory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    -50 faggot

    STFU asshole

  2. LMAO!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    1. You can not play games on it.
    2. It cannot be used by my grandma.
    3. It lacks a GUI of any note.
    4. There is no support available for it.
    5. It is an assortment of fragmented OSes.
    6. It cannot be run on the x86 platform.
    7. You have to compile everything and know C.
    8. Support for the latest hardware is always poor.
    9. It is incompatiable with GNU/Linux.
    10.It is dying.

  3. Re:Problems by frost22 · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a BSD over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
    I wont even comment on that drivel. This is the third time or so I see that rubbish posted verbatim in a BSD discussion on ./ .

    I give you a good reason not to use Windows: doing so would put me in league with hapless ultra-lame troll-babies like you.

    'nuff said. Which you much fun with your mostly dead windoze
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    ...and here I stand, with all my lore, poor fool, no wiser than before.
  4. Re:It's important to keep perspective here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Aren't you the quintessential open source wacko.

  5. Re:A legit question by La+Temperanza · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    FreeBSD is open source, unless you're a GNU/Idiot who thinks weak copyleft is nothing but a corporate tool.

    Did you mean to say BSD/OS was not open source? In that case, no. Linux was reverse-engineered from UNIX, while BSD/OS and the free BSDs are direct relations.

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  6. Re:The Red Flag effect. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Are you saying to ignore the evidence? Only a fanboy would think that BSD has a chinaman's chance. BSD is dead; only the fanboi hens remain behind to play with its corpse.

  7. Completely wrong. by AntiBasic · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Completely wrong. It was more than a year ago when WindRiver took over BSDi. And BSD/OS was a pretty bigtime product many, many years ago. Microsoft used it extensively before it ate its own dogfood with NT. Initially, BSDI's product was called BSD/386; not to be confused with 386/BSD. I have no idea why this was moderated-up. Oh wait, its simple-minded, infantile, liberal Linux zealots with no concern for accuracy.

  8. Re:It's important to keep perspective here by k8to · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, I'd say the BSD camp was never too hostile to commercialization of BSD code in the manner employed by BSDI. If you hate proprieterization of free code, you'll probably gravitate to some other project.

    No, the reason that Free/Net/OpenBSD people tended to dislike BSDI was because of the vastly unimpressive management of the sourcebase that they got from 4.4BSD. Improvements appeared in only a few key areas (such as the threaded network stack), with the rest vast majority of the system left fairly bereft in a way that would make a default solaris install feel like a breath of fresh air.

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