Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 03:02:11 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: Tom Huppi <thuppi@huppi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what are patches ? Message-ID: <42043733.7060002@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0502041958160.74497@nuumen.pair.com> References: <ef60af0905020416242ee9cac3@mail.gmail.com> <42041327.7020107@makeworld.com> <ef60af0905020416362733ef5d@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.BSF.4.58.0502041958160.74497@nuumen.pair.com>
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Tom Huppi wrote: > > Almost totally unrelated, but this reminds me of a very pleasant > conversation I had with on of the early FreeBSD developers. He > mentioned that the FreeBSD project grew out of what was known as > 'the unofficial 386BSD patch kit' or something like that name. He > said that it got to the point where the patch set was indeed > larger than the distribution of the OS of interest (which was, I > believe, the first port of BSD Unix to the x86 architecture.) I > didn't get the sense that he was joking about that. > He wasn't. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/history.html Mark --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0505-1, 02/02/2005 Tested on: 05/02/2005 03:02:12 avast! - copyright (c) 2000-2004 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com
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