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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!news.cic.net!locust.cic.net!pauls From: pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: BSD 4.4 on HP300 hardware Date: 3 Oct 1994 16:11:02 GMT Organization: CICNet, Inc. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <36paem$qh2@spruce.cic.net> References: <CRATH.94Oct3073541@bcaricbe.bnr.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: locust.cic.net In article <CRATH.94Oct3073541@bcaricbe.bnr.ca>, Christopher Rath <crath@bnr.ca> wrote: >I've been reading the BSD 4.4 docs (from O'Rielly). They describe 4.4 >running on HP300 and Sun Sparc hardware. However, they don't say >where a distribution might be obtained. Does anyone have this info? Anything 4.4BSD that's fully bootable system won't be available to the general public (ie, not to people with out a license to receive the encumbered release). You may thank USL for that. The good thing, however, is that NetBSD is unencumbered and will run on most of the platforms for which a port was started in the 4.4BSD distribution. The HP300 and the SPARC (sun4c) are two of those. If you *do* have a license to receive encumbered releases of 4.4BSD, you will want the NetBSD sources anyway, since they contain many fixes you'll want. Currently NetBSD gives you a mostly 4.4BSD kernel (with some key sections rewritten from scratch), and a userland mixture of Net2, 4.4BSD, GNU, and other contributed applications. Further integration of the 4.4BSD release into the NetBSD userland is probably forthcoming. ftp.iastate.edu and sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu are two places to get the NetBSD distribution in source and binary forms. -- Paul Southworth CICNet Systems Support pauls@cic.net