[TUHS] BSD/OS

[Kevin Bowling]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 4:44 PM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 5:40 PM Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling at kev009.com> wrote:
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>> I have been playing around a bit with this in VirtualBox.
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>> Maybe due to the backing company, I had assumed it was a commercial FreeBSD variant.  But looking a bit harder, it seems like it was a distinct strain of 386bsd like NetBSD and FreeBSD.  There seems to be scant information about it online.  Does anyone know if its story is told somewhere?
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> Wasn't this from BSDi? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD/OS It wasn't a commercial version of 386bsd, per se, but based on a porting to the PC work Jolitz had done prior to 386BSD.  They shared a common (very recent) ancestor. And there was much drama around it all.

Yeah you got it, this is the BSDi product that was previously called
BSD/386 and eventually wound down at WindRiver.

What I've gleaned so far is like you said, some of the 386bsd patch
set and then maybe the 4.4-lite refresh along the way.  The final
version has FreeBSD's CAM.

https://gunkies.org/wiki/BSD/386 and the parent page on seem to
suggest it originated off Net/2 directly.

Very hard to find a cohesive story for some reason.

> Or is this something else?
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> Warner