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From: jcargill@oka.cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 4.4-lite?
Date: 22 Jun 1994 21:23:16 GMT
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
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In article <VIXIE.94Jun22131553@office.home.vix.com>,
Paul A Vixie <vixie@vix.com> wrote:
>> But not everyone NEEDS (another) copy of the same old utility sources,
>> at least not immediately. My (admittedly uninformed) guess is that
>> much of the 4.4-lite tree is very similar to the Net/2 tree, at least
>> in the /usr/src/{sbin,usr.bin,bin} areas.
>
>Quite wrong. There are little but important changes everywhere, in almost
>every file. There are huge changes in various spots. It's a whole new
>system. BNR2 is _old_.
Thanks for the clarification; I guess I was thinking that the
multitudes of changes spread throughout the system would be critical
to someone trying to *run* 4.4-lite, but not to everyone that just
wanted to take a look and learn something about it....
>
>> It seems to me that the kernel sources from 4.4-lite, which should
>> make for the most interesting bed-side reading material, would be an
>> *extremely* appropriate post for comp.sources.unix. The kernel source
>> tree should be of a reasonable size; in fact, it should be a drop in
>> the daily USENET bit-bucket.
>
>At a megabyte a day (my personal quota for c.s.unix), it would still take
>weeks just to get the kernel sources out. Replicated FTP would be much
>much better.
Agreed... I just hope replicated-ftp happens sooner than the several
weeks it would take to trickle it out through c.s.unix. ;-)
Yes, I know, I'm greedy. ;-)
Jon
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