(thing) by Fandango Sat Nov 13 1999 at 9:11:32

A BSD-derived commercial OS which used to be a good choice for web servers (before FreeBSD became more solid), but now has some disadvantages compared to FreeBSD and Linux, including:

  • Costs too much. BSDI used to be fairly inexpensive ($100 or so), but the current version costs $995 ($2995 for a source code license!).
  • Expensive source code.

Not as good as FreeBSD or Linux and a lot more expensive, but at least it's better than SCO.

I like it!
(thing) by Empty Threats Mon Oct 13 2003 at 1:49:52

An extraordinarily stable BSD derivative for i386 PC compatibles, created by the late BSDi, and eventually sold to Wind River Systems. A great deal of code from BSD/OS was shared with the FreeBSD project, which probably has something to do with FreeBSD 5's greatly improved SMP.

Many ISP's were fond of BSD/OS, and source licenses were both available and relatively affordable.

Unfortunately, Wind River Systems is mostly an embedded systems company, and BSD/OS does not appear to fit into their future plans. As of December 31, 2003, they plan to stop selling BSD/OS internet server, with support to end one year afterwards.

A piece of Unix history will die with it.

I like it!

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