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From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: Re: 4.4-lite?
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Date: Tue, 19 Jul 1994 19:34:35 GMT
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In article <30em65$g17@autodesk.autodesk.com> greywolf@autodesk.com (I can teach you how to fish...) writes:
>I find it kind of difficult to believe that FreeBSD started with 4.4-Lite,

FreeBSD 1.x is based on Net/2.

FreeBSD 2.0 will be based on 4.4-Lite.  The core FreeBSD team is
taking a virgin 4.4-Lite system and making it work on Intel, plus they
are pulling forward the things in FreeBSD that the core team thinks
are cool.

I'm grossly oversimplifying here, but that is essentially correct.  It
is a different approach than, say, NetBSD which is taking its current
Net/2 based system and pulling in the 4.4-Lite files and rewriting
those files that were tainted.

Which approach is better?  I don't know, nor am I qualified to pass
judgement on that.  I know of very few people that are, yet many that
do aren't.

Warner
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