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- 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.
-