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From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 4.4BSD
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Date: 11 Jan 94 11:26:53 EST
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douzzer@PIRANHA.LCS.MIT.EDU (Daniel G. Pouzzner) writes:
>can anyone direct me to a site with the 4.4BSD release, hopefully
>available via anonymous ftp?

4.4BSD is still subject to [owner-of-the-week-of-the-UNIX-trademark]
licensing, pending the resolution of the suit USL filed against BSDI and
UCB; if the former members of CSRG are still interested if and when BSDI
and UCB win the suit (indeed, if they have not died of old age by that
time, lawsuits being what they are :-), they may or may not get around to
finishing up "4.4BSD lite" as promised.

>as an aside, has anyone ported any of the recent bsd's (e.g.
>4.3network2, 4.3reno) to an R4000 SGI? the wrangling over licensing
>for this -n- that in IRIX has led me to think the only solution is to
>abandon it.

The NetBSD crowd has ported the 386BSD port of Net-2 to several architectures,
and would probably be a good start for an SGI port.  Note, of course, that
you'd lose the gigabytes of fascinating software that accompanies the IRIX
kernel, but if you just want to run plain, vanilla BSD on your fast SGI,
that might be the way to go.