4.4BSD-Lite is source code ONLY.  If you love to read good code and
tinker with your system, this is the disc for you.  This software
contains software developed by the University of California,
Berkeley, and its contributors.  This CDROM includes source code and
manual pages for the C library, about 95% of the utilities
distributed in 4.4BSD, and all but a few files from the kernel.  The
system is almost entirely ANSI C and IEEE POSIX 1003.1 and 1003.2
standards compliant.

The 4.4BSD-Lite distribution adds support for several new
architectures including Sparcstations 1 and 2, MIPS based Decstation
3100, 5000, and Sony NEWS, 68000 based HP 9000/300 and Omron Luna,
and 386 based PC's.  Both the HP300 and SPARC ports can run native
operating system binaries via emulation.

Note: It is not possible to compile or run 4.4BSD-Lite without a
preexisting system that is already installed and running.
4.4BSD-Lite does not contain program binaries for any architecture.  

    Major new facilities include: 

* A new virtual memory implementation derived from the MACH operating
system developed at Carnegie Mellon.

* A new virtual filesystem interface supporting filesystem stacking.

* A freely redistributable version of NFS.

* A new log-structured filesystem that provides near disk-speed
output and fast crash recovery.

* The conversion to the IEEE Std1003.1 (``POSIX'') facilities.  The
new terminal driver is similar to the System V driver with extensions
to get the functionality previously available in the 4.3BSD terminal
driver.

* Several new tools and utilities including a new ``make'' which
allows simplified makefiles for the system software and allows
compilation for multiple architectures from the same source tree.

* Many IEEE Std1003.2 facilities.  Most of the traditional utilities
are new versions conformant with POSIX standards.  Almost the entire
manual suite is new.

* Kerberos (version 4) authentication software is integrated into
much of the system (including NFS) to provide the first real network
authentication on BSD.

* Many new utilities and additions in the C-library.

* And more.