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From: j@interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Q: Where can I find the 4.4BSD source code ?
Date: 13 Nov 1995 10:00:55 +0100
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Chih-Jen Chang  <chihjenc@scf.usc.edu> wrote:
>Where can I find the 4.4BSD source code?
>Is these source code publicly available now ?

It has always been.

O'Reilly has been publishing it in its ``CD-ROM companion'' to their
4.4BSD documentation series.

Walnut Creek CDROM is also publishing it on a CD, and is going to
distribute the upgrade version (4.4-Lite2) now.

Note that 4.4BSD-Lite is *not* a working operating system, its a
``torso'' containing about 95 % of a working system.

I don't know if any ftp server keeps the plain 4.4BSD source tree.
Anyway, you will find the NetBSD and FreeBSD source trees mirrored on
many ftp servers, both systems are 4.4BSD-based with full source
availability.  Unlike plain 4.4BSD, both systems constitute a working
system, in the NetBSD case even on multiple platforms.
-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de
					[private: http://www.sax.de/~joerg/]