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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!pnl-oracle!osi-east2.es.net!cronkite.nersc.gov!dancer.ca.sandia.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!news.duke.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!toads.pgh.pa.us!news.sei.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!postman+ From: Vijay_Anand@transarc.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: 4.4-lite CDROM from O'Reilly Date: Wed, 3 Aug 1994 15:59:05 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 22 Message-ID: <giDzQ9CSMUYgATEAgX@transarc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: po6.andrew.cmu.edu I'm thinking of getting this cdrom mainly to use it as a companion to the 4.3BSD book by Leffler et. al. Could people familiar with this CDROM's contents answer the following questions. 1. What does the term "lite" refer to? 2. Is the full kernel source available in the cdrom - My interest is in the VM, process mgmt and file system code. 3. Is there any documentation, say about changes made since 4.3BSD and a description of the changes? 4. Of what additional use is this cdrom other than as an educational one? 5. I noticed that ftp.cdrom.com has a compressed tar file of the entire CDROM as well as the CDROM filesystem tree itself. I don't have the resources to download the 40MB file; is there some place in the net that has a tar file of just the sources (under /usr/src)? 6. How would you compare this cdrom with the one from Dr. Dobbs which contains 386BSD 1.0 with the articles written by Jolitz in the magazine included? Thanks, Vijay