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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. Oh boy by batkins · · Score: 0, Troll
    /me wonders if the slashdot editors have ever heard the phrase "don't feed the trolls."


    Judging from the number of trolls already, I'd say this story is better left unreported. :)

  2. Re:Okay, okay... by John+Hasler · · Score: 0, Troll

    This has nothing to do with "BSD is dying".

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  3. Re:Good riddance. by Mohammed+Al-Sahaf · · Score: 0, Troll
    BSD zealots are quick to deny the "death" of BSD nowadays by pointing to the existence of OS X, which has supposedly given BSD "thousands" of users. Infact this is a myth propagated by Apple, eager to tout the "Industrial Strength Unix Foundations" of their new "Darwin" OS.

    The kernel of Darwin is not the BSD kernel, but rather the Mach kernel, Infact, the core of Darwin is of a totally different design to BSD, being of an elegant microkernel structure rather than the monolithic structure that BSD still retains. It is strange that Apple would choose to tout that their OS is based on 4.4BSD, which even by BSD standards is obsolete by over 10 years.

    Darwin includes totally rewritten filesystem and network support and does not use the BSD code here either. Infact, BSD code is only used in the OS as a "skin" to wrap the underlying OS in order to provide a virtual Unix-like environment, in much the same way as Cygwin wraps Windows.

    Higher up in userland, adapted versions of the BSD tools are used for the Unix command line, an odd choice, considering the GNU utilities are superior. Files are kept in odd places and in many cases manpages are out of date. Many basic system services such as user authentication are provided by Apple's own proprietary system rather than the traditional Unix methods. In general, the OS X command line is a lackluster and messy ordeal, and certainly radically unlike any BSD system.

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  4. Er by AvengerXP · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why would you stop selling something that's already dead anyhow?

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  5. Re:BSD Dead? by EelBait · · Score: 0, Troll

    Naw. Not trying to prove anything. I'm just tired of playing with the dependency hell that is the world of Linux. I tried Linux. It's just too -- I dunno -- "ill-defined" for lack of a better term.

    I don't know why, but the FreeBSD ports system just works, and I don't need to spend hours chasing down every little shared library.

    BSD just seems a bit more "well-defined" and stable than Linux. I think it makes more sense to use an OS that gets the job done, and stays below the radar of hackers. Why try be a 1337 Linux d00d when FreeBSD gets the job done with 1/10 the noise?

    Maybe it's my background in mathematics and engineering showing through affecting my preferences.