Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!chalmers.se!mathrt0.math.chalmers.se!d6mbeng From: d6mbeng@dtek.chalmers.se (Magnus Bengtsson) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: 386BSD (was Re: MINIX on a 486?) Message-ID: <1991Jun13.165309.20341@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se> Date: 13 Jun 91 16:53:09 GMT References: <13393@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1991Jun12.145309.29231@ukpoit.co.uk> Sender: news@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se (Evald Nyhetsson) Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden Lines: 22 In article <1991Jun12.145309.29231@ukpoit.co.uk> paul@ukpoit.co.uk (Paul Wood) writes: >In article awb@ed.ac.uk (Alan W Black) writes: >>As someone else said BSD will be available >>"soon" for almost free. (Someone disagreed but I'm not sure why -- the >>"soon" bit is the most arguable). >My guess is the "almost free" part is the problem. I understand that it >is not going to be free to private individuals. In fact is going to be >very expensive compared to Minix. Can someone clarify? What I heard (or, rather, read somewhere -- I forget where) is that 386BSD will be distributed as part of 4.4BSD in source form only. Since it is not free from AT&T code, you will need a source code license from AT&T, if you want 386BSD. And that is *NOT* free -- it is not even cheap by any standards... Could someone who actually KNOWS the facts confirm or deny this? -- Magnus Bengtsson Chalmers University of Technology d6mbeng@dtek.chalmers.se Gothenburg, Sweden