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BSDi Internet Super Server Version 4.0

also known as BSD/OS

summary

BSDi Internet Super Server (also known as BSD/OS) is a commercial BSD UNIX for Pentiums and other processors.

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Intended purpose

server/mainframe: small to large scale servers

desktop/workstation: workstations (for those with UNIX familiarity)

handheld: not appropriate

real time: not appropriate

Kind of OS: proprietary BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) UNIXw40 owned by Wind Riverw71

Current Version: 4.0w15

Cost: $995 for base product or 16 user licensew40

Hardware Supported: Intel Pentium (Pentium, Pentium Pro, and Pentium II)w40, 80486w40, 80386w40, Sun SPARC and Ultra-SPARCw40, Motorola PowerPCw40 (see “BSD/OS 4.0 SMP Motherboard Compatibility” at http://www.BSDI.COM/products/internet/mpmb)

Maximum Number of Processors:

Number of bits:

Kernel: BSDw40

POSIX: IEEE POSIX 1003.1 compatiblew40

“BSD/OS supports the IEEE POSIX 1003.1 standard. BSDi has tracked the IEEE POSIX 1003.2 standard and is modifying utilities to conform. BSD/OS networking includes both the OSI and TCP/IP standards. The BSD/OS C compiler (gcc) supports ANSI C; all system headers comply with ANSI-C’s requirements. The X Window System (Version X11R6) is an industry standard window system based on software from MIT.”w40

File Systems Supported: BSDi Fast File Systemw39, NFSw39, SMB (through SAMBA)

Other Systems Emulated:

Graphics Engine:

Text Command Shell: UNIX shells

User Interface (graphic): Motif (through third party supplier Xi Graphics)w40

Graphic Command Shell:

Internet Services:

“Yesterday’s college students learned their UNIX expertise on Linux and FreeBSD. Today they’re working in IT departments, and many of them are openly hostile to both Microsoft and Windows NT. As a result, Linux, BSD, Solaris, and other forms of UNIX are finding their way into IT departments, both overtly and on the sly.

“For example, are you sure that’s an NT server you’re connecting to at work? IS employees in many corporations have secretly installed UNIX servers that provide native NT services. Why take such a risk? Linux and FreeBSD are free, as is SAMBA, the software that provides NT services. So the IS department saves money. And managers are unlikely to find out UNIX is behind the scenes because fewer people will complain about server downtime.

“Fewer people will complain because the servers are more stable than Windows NT. Linux, FreeBSD, and BSDI UNIX outperform Windows NT by a wide margin on limited hardware, and under some circumstances can perform as well or better than NT on the best hardware. Once behind in scalability features, UNIX on Intel is catching up and may soon surpass NT in the number of processors it can use, and how it uses them.” —Nicholas Petreley (editor-in-chief of NC World and columnist for InfoWorld and NT World Japan), “The new UNIX alters NT’s orbit: The re-emergence of UNIX threatens to modify the future direction of NT”, NC World, April 1998w51

Other:

“Why does Wind River need both BSD/OS and FreeBSD? Wind River’s customers demand a fully supported commercial system with carefully controlled product direction, quality, and support. BSD/OS provides these benefits and Wind River will therefore continue to invest in the direct development of BSD/OS and its successors. These will provide the primary revenue engine for the BSD technology.

“Wind River also recognizes the enormous leverage that open source projects can provide. When encouraged to prosper, open source can produce a wide variety of useful, stable technology and ideas. FreeBSD offers this opportunity for Wind River to cultivate. BSD/OS and other Wind River products will selectively incorporate technology or ideas surfaced by FreeBSD, including applications and drivers, and BSD/OS will maintain a high degree of compatibility with FreeBSD to optimize this synergy. To encourage the growth of FreeBSD, Wind River will also selectively donate technologies to the open source community. This plan provides Wind River customers with the best of both open source and commercial systems.” —Wind River, “bsdi_faq”, May 2001w71

“How do FreeBSD and BSD/OS fit into Wind River’s product strategy? As embedded applications become more and more connected, it is imperative that they have the ability to interoperate with the mission-critical applications running on the Internet.

“The agreement to acquire BSDi software gives Wind River customers the assurance that their connected smart devices will be highly compatible with UNIX applications, which are the most widely deployed applications powering the Internet today.

“The addition of a UNIX-based OS is consistent with Wind River’s strategy to be uniquely positioned to provide end-to-end solutions that enable customers to develop connected smart devices with market efficiencies in a challenging and ever-expanding market (see diagram below).” —Wind River, “bsdi_faq”, May 2001w71

references

further reading: web sites

Please send recommendations on additional URLs to Milo.

user group web sites

http://www.nexial.nl/cgi-bin/bsdi search of BSDi-users mailing list

http://www.stokely.com/unix.sysadm.resources/faqs.a-m.html#faq.link.bsdi “Stokely’s BSDi System Administrator FAQ links”

http://www.linuxrx.com/WS_Linux/OS_comparison.html “The Linux resource exchange — Operating systems comparison” LINUX, HPUX, Windows NT, BSDi, FreeBSD, IRIX, Digital UNIX, Solaris, Macintosh, OS/2, UnixWare, OpenServere83

http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/ John Kirch’s article “Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 versus UNIX”

further reading: books

For more UNIX book listings, see also the general book listings on the UNIX web page.

If you want your book reviewed, please send a copy to: Milo, POB 1361, Tustin, CA 92781, USA.

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further reading: books: introductory/general

A Practical Guide to the Unix System; by Mark G. Sobell; Addison-Wesley Pub Co; October 1994; ISBN 0805375651; paperback; 800 pages; $37.95

further reading: books: internet

Building a Unix Internet Server; by George Eckel; New Riders Publishing; June 1995; ISBN 1562054945; paperback (with CD-ROM); 325 pages; $30.40

further reading: books: enterprise/business

further reading: books: content creation

further reading: books: programming

Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series); by W. Richard Stevens; Addison-Wesley Pub Co; June 1992; ISBN 0201563177; hardcover; 744 pages; $63.95

further reading: books: hardware

further reading: books: miscellaneous

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