BSD / OS
| BSD / OS | |
|---|---|
| developer | Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (BSDI) |
| License (s) | Proprietary |
| Current version | 5.1 ISE (October 2003) |
| ancestry |
UNIX ↳ BSD ↳ BSD / 386 ↳ BSD / OS |
| Architecture (s) | x86 , SPARC , PowerPC |
| timeline | BSD / 386 BSD / OS |
| Others | Development stopped |
BSD / OS (formerly BSD / 386 ) is a commercial Unix - Operating system of the company Berkeley Software Design (BSDI) and comes from the BSD UNIX family. Development stopped in 2003. BSD / OS was primarily in the area of Internet - server systems used and most recently by the company Wind River Systems developed and marketed.
history
BSD / 386
In 1991 a group of BSD developers left Berkeley University and formed Berkeley Software Design (BSDI) to develop a commercial Unix operating system for i386 processors. The BSD / 386 operating system was created based on 4.3BSD Net / 2 . The first public version 0.3.1 was released in April 1992.
Shortly after the release of version 1.0, the developer Bill Jolitz left the group in March 1993 to develop the free Unix operating system 386BSD , which later became an important basis for the free BSD derivatives FreeBSD and NetBSD .
Compared to the competing products, BSD / 386 stood out primarily through low license fees for the source code.
BSD / OS
After a legal dispute with the Unix System Laboratories (USL) over the rights to Unix, BSDI developed version 2.0 of its operating system based on 4.4BSD-Lite , which means that it no longer contained any USL-based source texts. In addition, the system was renamed BSD / OS in order not to be limited to the i386 architecture in further development and was published in January 1995 as BSD / OS 2.0 . One of the most important areas of application was the Internet server area.
Although BSD / OS set itself apart from the free BSD derivatives of the time thanks to its well-developed SMP support and commercial support, it got increasing competition from them. The lack of certification by the Open Group also meant that sales figures continued to decline towards the end of the 1990s.
Through a merger of BSDI with Walnut Creek CDROM, at that time the largest distributor of FreeBSD and the Linux distribution Slackware , in March 2000 BSDI's range was expanded. In April 2001 the company Wind River Systems finally took over the rights to BSD / OS as well as the FreeBSD distribution from BSDI and in turn pledged to promote the development of FreeBSD. On December 13, 2003 the further development and towards the end of 2004 the support of BSD / OS by Wind River Systems was discontinued.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release of April 4, 2001: http://www.windriver.com/news/press/pr.html?ID=436