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From: rps@gabriel (Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro)
Subject: Re: 4.4BSD-Lite (Was: BSD vs. Linux)
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 13:22:37 GMT
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James W. Adams (jwa@yog-sothoth.dcrt.nih.gov) wrote:

: All this hoopla over 4.4BSD-Lite has me a bit confused.  According to
: the release announcement letter for 4.4BSD-Alpha, 4.4 Lite was to be
: essentially Net-2 with bug fixes, some enhancements and support for
: additional architectures, with no new kernel files and only a few
: additional programs.  Most of the real improvements in 4.4BSD were in
: the kernel interfaces and filesystems, code which the letter distinctly
: implied would *not* be in 4.4 Lite.

: Has this situation changed, or am I correct in assuming that the change
: in BSDI from Net-2 to 4.4-Lite will result in minimal functional
: benefit?

In the releases notes for BSD/386 1.1:
"Futures:
    BSD 4.4-Lite, including new filesystems features and performance"

--
 Rui Salgueiro |   Dpt. de Matematica    |"In my life / Why do I smile
 rps@mat.uc.pt | Universidade de Coimbra | at people who I'd much rather
 rps@inescc.pt |    Portugal - Europe    |   kick in the eye" - Morrissey