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From: md@bsc.no (Mark Dapoz)
Subject: Re: The 4.4BSD-Lite distribution announcement
Message-ID: <1994Apr27.074929.1863@newsroom.bsc.no>
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Organization: Bergen Scientific Centre, Bergen, NORWAY
References: <2p4ieg$89j@agate.berkeley.edu> <1994Apr21.122620.13770@newsroom.bsc.no> <2p9esl$lam@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 07:49:29 GMT
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In article <2p9esl$lam@agate.berkeley.edu> bostic@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic) writes:
>In article <1994Apr21.122620.13770@newsroom.bsc.no>,
>Mark Dapoz <md@bsc.no> wrote:
>>
>>Are there any portions of 4.4BSD-Lite which were not present in the
>>original 4.4BSD distribution?  The reason that I'm asking is that I
>>noticed that 4.4BSD-Lite supports ISO 9660 filesystems (or so the
>>announcement says) but I didn't see this support in the original 4.4BSD
>>distribution.  Are there any other things which have been added/changed?
>>I was under the impression that 4.4BSD-Lite was just a stripped down
>>4.4BSD.
>
>There are a lot of fixes and improvements (although few major
>structural changes) in the 4.4BSD-Lite release.

Then I guess the next obvious question is, is there a new release of the
full 4.4 source or alternativly, are there patches that we can apply to
the original 4.4 source tree?

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Mark Dapoz	Bergen Scientific Centre, Bergen, NORWAY	md@bsc.no

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