Wind River terminating BSD/OS

tarkow

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servus


ich weis nicht ob das hier schon gepostet wurde

diese nachricht lässt alle BSD user wohl aufschrecken


Yesterday, on the bsdi-users mailing list, it was reported that Wind River Japan had announced that they will be discontinuing BSD/OS Internet Server Edition (ISE) on Dec. 13, 2003.
This user commented: "I hope that only WR Japan is going to discontinue BSD/OS ISE, not entire WR."

But Wind River USA has also sent out emails saying this "is your official notification that we are initiating the retirement phase for all of our BSD/OS-based products".

The letter said Wind River had to re-evaluate their products due to the difficult economic situation of the past few years.

The final version of BSD/OS, BSD/OS 5.1 ISE, will be available as an upgrade for 5.0 ISE customers in October with sales ending on December 31, 2003. This will be available in binary and binary with source code, as with previous releases.

The 5.1 enhancements will include: Kerberos 5, gcc 3.2.2, gdb 5.2.1, binutils 2.3.1, TCP Segmentation Offload, USB 1.1 support, enhanced DMA bus support, and Common Access Method (CAM) Layer support.

The Retirement Plan which was included with the letter said that the standard support and maintenance for all releases of BSD/OS ISE (including bug fixes and patches for BSD/OS 4.3.x ISE and BSD/OS 5.x ISE) ends on December 31, 2004.

The letter also said that Wind River will retain the BSD/OS technology.

Some BSD/OS users hope that the code will be released under a BSD license or transferred to another party.

Some interesting BSD/OS features include its IPFW (not related to FreeBSD's code of same name) which includes a packet filtering language and kernel hooks; boot.default/boot.define boot loader routines for boot-time kernel configurations (based on text files) which is similar to OpenBSD's boot.conf and FreeBSD's loader; and "Mods" for updating the base system.

BSD/OS already made its BSD Authentication System code available and it is used by OpenBSD.

Many BSD/OS users over the past few years have been commenting on the list about their migrations from BSD/OS. Users have made comments like: "Our FreeBSD migration is almost complete" and "have migrated all BSD servers to Red Hat Linux 9".

In March 2000, BSDI merged with Walnut Creek CDROM. Then in April 2001, Wind River bought the BSD properties from BSDi (new name) and BSDi became the hardware company, iXsystems.

At that time, "FreeBSD came along for the ride and ... gave Wind River a pulpit in the open source community." Around October 2001, Wind River stopped providing financial aid for FreeBSD



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servus


sorry cw habe es nicht gesehen das es schon ein post dazu gibt

oh man hoffe das mir niemand FeeBSD wegnimmt

:)
 
Original geschrieben von tarkow
servus


sorry cw habe es nicht gesehen das es schon ein post dazu gibt


Macht doch nix! :D

oh man hoffe das mir niemand FeeBSD wegnimmt

Wieso das denn?

Alle drei BSDs haben mit keiner Firma zu tun. Sie werden frei entwickelt.

CW
 
oh man hoffe das mir niemand FeeBSD wegnimmt
Schon mal die BSD Lizenz gelesen?
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:...
Auf Deutsch in etwa: Weiterverbreitung und Nutzung in Quell- und Binärform mit oder ohne Veränderung sind gestattet, falls folgende Bedingungen erfüllt sind: ...

Du kannst Dir also jederzeit den kompletten source code nehmen und damit dein eigenes BSD aufmachen. Vielleicht hast Du hier im Forum die Postings um DragonFlyBSD verfolgt -- Matt Dillon hat genau das gemacht. Wenn Du Lust hast, mach Dein eigenes TarkowBSD (hey, sieht noch nicht mal schlecht aus).
 
Original geschrieben von tarkow
ich weis nicht ob das hier schon gepostet wurde

Ja wurde es.

diese nachricht lässt alle BSD user wohl aufschrecken

Nein, warum sollte? Weil ein kommerzielles BSD evtl. sterben sollte?
 
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servus



asg ich habe es ja verstanden nobody is perfect


es war ein fehler von mir die nachricht nicht genau zu lesen ich habe gleich emotionell reagiert


ich habe ziemlich schnell gemerkt das ich mich geirrt hatte
 
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