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From: vixie@vix.com (Paul A Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 4.4-lite?
Date: 22 Jun 94 13:15:53
Organization: Vixie Enterprises
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In-reply-to: jcargill@oka.cs.wisc.edu's message of 22 Jun 1994 14:58:57 GMT
> 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_.
> 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.
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Paul Vixie
Redwood City, CA
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