From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 6 3:17:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C3E7937B719 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 03:17:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 27666 invoked by uid 100); 6 Mar 2001 11:17:37 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15012.51024.938212.113209@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 05:17:36 -0600 To: Konrad Heuer Cc: Mike Meyer , Subject: Re: 4.4BSDLite (was Re: BSD Strains) In-Reply-To: References: <15012.4172.716615.331667@guru.mired.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Konrad Heuer types: > On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > > BSD Lite is really only of historical interest. > I'm not sure whether 4.4BSDLite is of historical interest only. I think > there's a lot of code from 4.4BSD still important for FreeBSD & Co. What's > about lots of man pages, much userland code and our famous C library libc > and others? Sure, the code from 4.4BSD Lite plays a large part in most BSD distributions. That's what provides the interest - if it weren't a major part of the history of the BSD distributions, there would be no "historical interest" for the FreeBSD community. The "only" applies to the distribution. It's not a complete OS distribution as is, because it's missing the parts that AT&T had a copyright on. A lot of the code is now outdated. While much of the code in FreeBSD is based on 4.4BSD Lite, that integration happened with FreeBSD 2.0. What interest other than historical is there in FreeBSD 2.0? There should be more such interest than in 4.4BSD Lite, as FreeBSD 2.0 has more code in common with 4-STABLE than 4.4BSD Lite. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message