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From: root@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian)
Subject: Re: BSDI/FreeBSD
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 14:49:24 GMT
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Ian McCloghrie (ianm@qualcomm.com) wrote:
: A slight addition:  Another part of the settlement with USL specifies
: that their next release be based on BSD 4.4Lite.  This will remove all
: USL proprietary code from the kernel, so there won't be any object-only
: files from this issue.  I'm not sure what the release date is for
: that, but I think it's in the next couple of months (if anyone knows
: better, please correct me).

The BSDI release date is targeted for Thanksgiving (last November). 
There are 22 files that are object-only.  Not much.  Great OS.

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