BSDi announces release of BSD/OS 4.2

BSD Today carried an announcement today that BSDi has released BSD/OS 4.2. The press release says that BSD/OS now has XFree 4.0 support, robust SMP, VPN/IPSec, Linux binary compatibility through the Linux Application Platform, and Java 2 Runtime and Development environments on both SPARC and Intel platforms.

Re:BSD

[alsta]

If I am not all behind the door here, BSD/OS is based on 4.2BSD. Not 4.4. Significant changes have been made since BSD/OS once emerged, but still, I think the first versions were based on 4.2BSD, thus the debacle between UCB, BSDI and AT&T.

Not very important anymore though.

Re:BSD/OS vs FreeBSD, etc?

[bugg]

Err, no, BSD was the original BSD. I think I see what you're saying: BSDI was founded by Bostic with other former CSRG members. It was a way to continue development of BSD after the Uni cut funding.

Realize, however, that there is a clear distinction between BSD and BSD/OS. One's very free, the other is not.

Re:BSD's

[ozzmosis]

this is due to the fact that geeks dont use BSDi. because of the heavfy price it cost to get it. Also BSDi is not a very good client, (in my personal opnion) there is no gnome , kde , etc for it. you can get the source your self. But it will be a chore to compile it, cuz there is not a port system in BSDi.

Re:BSD/OS vs FreeBSD, etc?

[ozzmosis]

freebsd also has ports which bsdi does not.

Re:BSD/OS vs FreeBSD, etc?

[elbuddha]

Noto Bene: This should in no way be considered an authoritative answer. As a matter of fact it probably contains less information than you already know.

From what I understand the biggest differences are along the lines of hardware support. BSD/OS has much better SMP support, and better drivers due to proprietary software/information provided by manufacturers which BSDi has signed NDA's for.

Re:BSD/OS vs FreeBSD, etc?

[Tairan]

FreeBSD is the free version. BSD/OS is the expensive version. FBSD comes with free source, but BSD/OS does not. Most FreeBSD programs should run fine on BSD/OS. BSD/OS was also the original BSD. It's more stable. Did I miss anything?

BSD/OS vs FreeBSD, etc?

[Tumbleweed]

I've never been able to find out much info comparing BSD/OS and FreeBSD - can anyone give a quick overview of what the major differences are?

Re:new releases.

[dcs]

Because {Free,Net,Open}BSD are much more important to the Slashdot community than BSD/OS.

For one thing, anyone who wants can get the first three, just clicking on one of the URLs in the stories. The last one requires $$$.