From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 29 12:10:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A239155D8 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:10:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA24644; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:31:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:31:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: J McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what is the 'lite' in 4.4 BSD Lite? (n/t) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, J McKitrick wrote: J, you sure are trying to learn as much as possble about FreeBSD as fast as possible. :) Lite means "unencumbered" as you may know, BSD was derived from AT&T code many, many years ago, the 'Lite' release was the system released without any AT&T code that you might have needed a license for. afaik, it didn't even boot or compile until a few of the FreeBSD and 386/BSD founders got a patchset worked out. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message