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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!csn!boulder.parcplace.com!imp From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) Subject: Re: 4.4-lite? Message-ID: <Ct7D1o.GnL@boulder.parcplace.com> Sender: news@boulder.parcplace.com Organization: ParcPlace Boulder References: <michaelv.774429899@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <Zi2ziVX.dysonj@delphi.com> <30em65$g17@autodesk.autodesk.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 1994 19:34:35 GMT Lines: 24 In article <30em65$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 -- Warner Losh imp@boulder.parcplace.COM ParcPlace Boulder "... but I can't promote you to "Prima Donna" unless you demonstrate a few more serious personality disorders"