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From: steve@hacker.demon.co.uk (Stephen M. Youndt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: BSDI/FreeBSD
Date: 27 Sep 1994 06:13:06 GMT
Organization: "Hacker at Large"
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In article <ianm.780627543@miles>, ianm@qualcomm.com (Ian McCloghrie) writes:
> 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 about the 4.4lite move being part of the settlement. So far as I
know, it's always been their plan. As usual, though, probably required by the
settlement, details are sketchy.
> 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).
Last I heard, they were shooting for Thanksgiving (end of November for the
rest of the world).
Cheers,
Steve
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