*BSD News Article 54365


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!miwok!news.zeitgeist.net!white.dogwood.com!white.dogwood.com!not-for-mail
From: dave@white.dogwood.com (Dave Cornejo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 <-> 4.4BSD Lite?
Date: 11 Nov 1995 18:31:49 -0800
Organization: Dogwood Media
Lines: 15
Message-ID: <483mal$15j@white.dogwood.com>
References: <482dv7$nj@kocrsv08.delcoelect.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: white.dogwood.com

In article <482dv7$nj@kocrsv08.delcoelect.com>,
Perry Grieb <c23peg@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com> wrote:
>I see that Walnut Creek has a 4.4BSD Lite CD, version 2.
>Is FreeBSD 2.1 based upon the "version 2" code or not?
>I plan on getting a new FreeBSD 2.1 CD when they become
>available and just wondered...  Thank you much.  Sorry
>if I need a basic history lesson.

Actually, I think the migration is more the opposite direction - Lite2
reorganized the distribution and incorporated bug fixes from
BSDI/NetBSD/FreeBSD or so I've been told.
-- 
Dave Cornejo                                There is nothing so subtle
Dogwood Media                                           as the obvious
Fremont, California