An icon has been snuffed. Wind River has announced the end of BSD/OS, or BSDi. This isn't altogether surprising, as Linux and (Free|Net|Open)BSD have taken what little market BSDi had. The decline of the small ISP also hastened the end of BSDi, as it has been successfully marketed as the OS for the small to midsize ISP. The first Unix derivative I ever really used was BSDi. I still use it here and there, and I c An icon has been snuffed. Wind River has announced the end of BSD/OS, or BSDi. This isn’t altogether surprising, as Linux and (Free|Net|Open)BSD have taken what little market BSDi had. The decline of the small ISP also hastened the end of BSDi, as it has been successfully marketed as the OS for the small to midsize ISP. The first Unix derivative I ever really used was BSDi. I still use it here and there, and I can recite the the kernel rebuild (not recompile 😉 procedures in my sleep. I also have scores of BSD/OS Mods hanging around for some reason.Even so, it’s worth noting… besides, even with the end of BSDi at 5.1, it’s legacy will exist for years to come. dogbert:~ $ date Mon Sep 15 15:30:44 EDT 2003 dogbert:~ $ uname -a BSD/OS dogbert.jpj.net 4.1 BSDI BSD/OS 4.1 Kernel #0: Thu Nov 18 15:10:44 MST 1999 polk@hephaestus.BSDI.COM:/hrel/proto/4.1-i386/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 dogbert:~ $ uptime 3:25PM <b>up 583 days</b>, 1:17, 1 user, load averages: 0.25, 0.16, 0.13 dogbert:~ $