Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 18:22:43 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: kriston@ibm.net (Kriston J. Rehberg) Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux Message-ID: <199805140122.SAA16743@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 May 1998 14:18:05 EDT." <7918-Wed13May1998141805-0400-kriston@ibm.net>
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>AT&T license that BSD 4.3 and earlier suffered from. Indeed, I am >still not sure (after reading all the background on the *BSD releases) >which of the "big three" BSD releases came directly out of BSD4.4-Lite >and which releases came from a hacked-apart BSD 4.3 made to resemble >an "unencumbered" BSD 4.4-Lite without actually having arisen directly >from 4.4-Lite itself. John Dyson and me did the port of the 4.4BSD-lite code that became the basis for FreeBSD 2.0. It is entirely 4.4BSD-lite - we even threw out our FreeBSD 1.x source code repository just to be sure that all traces of Pre-4.4-lite were purged. There are some pieces of code that were developed in 386BSD and FreeBSD 1.x that still remain (part of the Mach VM system and some i386 code), but these never had anything to do with AT&T/USL. As far as I know, we're the only *BSD, with the possible exception of BSDI, that can honestly claim a complete restart from scratch. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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