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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!simtel!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 <-> 4.4BSD Lite? Date: 19 Nov 1995 17:11:39 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <48nogb$sao@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <482dv7$nj@kocrsv08.delcoelect.com> <485446$kk1@uriah.heep.sax.de> <48ikv2$1vd@buffnet2.buffnet.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 shovey@buffnet.net (steve hovey) writes: > : Not directly. Some of the bug fixes and enhancements of 4.4Lite2 have > : been folded into the code, other things have been solved differently > : in FreeBSD before 4.4Lite2 has been released. > > Dumb question of the day - why do they call it LITE? Because it's not so fat. :-) No, because of [insert today's owner of the UNIX sources here] insisted that their UNIX/32V source code of 15 years ago constituted a valuable trade secret, so that any portions of the tree still containing such code (about 5 % of the entire tree) had to be removed before releasing it to the public. The `true 4.4' runs on some HP machines, if i remember well. You need a 32V license in order to get it. That's why the `Lite' version isn't a complete and runnable system. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)