From owner-freebsd-www Thu Oct 2 09:13:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA05367 for www-outgoing; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 09:13:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA05362 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 09:13:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA25470; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 09:13:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 09:13:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: DEBOOT cc: www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD question In-Reply-To: <19971002152108.8093.rocketmail@web2.rocketmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, DEBOOT wrote: > Hello. I have a question about FreeBSD. I have a copy of FreeBSD 4.2 > and I was wondering if it is much different than 4.4 or are they > basically the same and 4.4 has a few added features. If youi could > answer this question that would be great. Thanks. If you're referring to the 4.2BSD distribution (not FreeBSD), 4.2BSD is several years old. 4.4BSD is the most current and the one that FreeBSD is based on. Note that if you have the 4.2BSD sources, you don't necessarily have a system that will compile & run on the i386 architecture. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major