From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 5 03:02:38 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93B4D16A4CE for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 03:02:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ptb-relay02.plus.net (ptb-relay02.plus.net [212.159.14.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F14B043D2D for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 03:02:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marko@freebsd.org) Received: from movens.plus.com ([80.229.231.20] helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ptb-relay02.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1CxGDU-0001Cc-An; Sat, 05 Feb 2005 03:02:36 +0000 Message-ID: <42043733.7060002@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 03:02:11 +0000 From: Mark Ovens User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 7.0 (Windows/20050113) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Huppi References: <42041327.7020107@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0505-1, 02/02/2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what are patches ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 03:02:38 -0000 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