Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:31:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: J McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what is the 'lite' in 4.4 BSD Lite? (n/t) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910291229490.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9910291832280.8801-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, J McKitrick wrote: J, you sure are trying to learn as much as possble about FreeBSD as fast as possible. :) Lite means "unencumbered" as you may know, BSD was derived from AT&T code many, many years ago, the 'Lite' release was the system released without any AT&T code that you might have needed a license for. afaik, it didn't even boot or compile until a few of the FreeBSD and 386/BSD founders got a patchset worked out. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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