An OutoftheMain Activity 3798

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:08:22 +0000 (UTC)

FreeBSD 1.x was based on 4.3BSD - there never was a 4.4BSD other than 4.4BSD Lite and then later 4.4BSD Lite 2 (the changes for Lite 2 were incorporated into FreeBSD when they happened - I can probably find cvs log entries for it if you like).

I'm working from personal memory (I used FreeBSD 1.0, 1.1, 1.1.5 and 1.1.5.1)- but just as confirmation from the FreeBSD handbook history section:

------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first CDROM (and general net-wide) distribution was FreeBSD 1.0, released in December of 1993. This was based on the 4.3BSD-Lite ("Net-2") tape from U.C. Berkeley, with many components also provided by 386BSD and the Free Software Foundation. It was a fairly reasonable success for a first offering, and we followed it with the highly successful FreeBSD 1.1 release in May of 1994.

Around this time, some rather unexpected storm clouds formed on the horizon as Novell and U.C. Berkeley settled their long-running lawsuit over the legal status of the Berkeley Net-2 tape. A condition of that Debt Settlement was U.C. Berkeley's concession that large parts of Net-2 were "encumbered " code and the property of Novell, who had in turn acquired it from AT&T some time previously. What Berkeley got in return was Novell's "blessing" that the 4.4BSD-Lite release, when it was finally released, would be declared unencumbered and all existing Net-2 users would be strongly encouraged to switch. This included FreeBSD, and the project was given until the end of July 1994 to stop shipping its own Net-2 based product. Under the terms of that agreement, the project was allowed one last release before the deadline, that release being FreeBSD 1.1.5.1. ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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