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From: shovey@buffnet.net (steve hovey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 <-> 4.4BSD Lite?
Date: 17 Nov 1995 18:40:34 GMT
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: Perry Grieb <c23peg@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com> wrote:

: >I see that Walnut Creek has a 4.4BSD Lite CD, version 2.
: >Is FreeBSD 2.1 based upon the "version 2" code or not?

: Not directly.  Some of the bug fixes and enhancements of 4.4Lite2 have
: been folded into the code, other things have been solved differently
: in FreeBSD before 4.4Lite2 has been released.

Dumb question of the day - why do they call it LITE?
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