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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!news.funet.fi!nntp.hut.fi!nntp!sja From: sja@snakemail.hut.fi (Sakari Jalovaara) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: 4.4-lite? Date: 20 Jul 94 14:47:41 GMT Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 21 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <SJA.94Jul20164741@gamma.hut.fi> References: <Bs2yi5F.dysonj@delphi.com> <michaelv.774429899@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <30d91q$cs6@quagga.ru.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: gamma.hut.fi In-reply-to: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za's message of 18 Jul 1994 06:55:54 GMT > [Difference between incorporating 4.4 code into 4.3 vs. starting from 4.4] > I don't think that NetBSD-1.0 can claim to be 4.4BSD-based. [...] > I think that in order to > claim to be 4.4-Lite based, one has to have the 4.4-Lite code as the > starting point of one's development. Dunno... If the kernel _is_ 4.4 code, it would seem very confusing not to call it 4.4. Regardless of its history. Splitting hairs with the semantics of the word "based" is likely to bring more confusion than positive values to everyone's life. Start with a file containing the "hello world" program. Delete that program and insert the 4.4-Lite kernel code. I'd call that 4.4-based. Not "modified hello world". "You see, this wall is really not red, it was green originally, we just painted it over with red. So it really only _looks_ red." ++sja