Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!mips!spool.mu.edu!olivea!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aiai!aipna!awb From: awb@ed.ac.uk (Alan W Black) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: bsd Message-ID: Date: 19 Jun 91 08:49:50 GMT References: <91169.094358A430@HASARA11.BITNET> Sender: news@aipna.ed.ac.uk Reply-To: awb@ed.ac.uk (Alan W Black) Organization: Dept of AI, Edinburgh University, UK Lines: 29 In-reply-to: A430@HASARA11.BITNET's message of 18 Jun 91 10:07:41 GMT In article <91169.094358A430@HASARA11.BITNET> A430@HASARA11.BITNET (Dept. of Mol. Biology, Section of Mol. Cytology) writes: > I looked this morning at a few ftp sites and on one of them > (watmsg.waterloo.edu 129.97.129.9) i found the following entry: > bsd: > total 3520 > -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 3594491 May 5 1989 bsd43.NoATT.tar.Z > It is a bit to large to download immediately but if i am not mistaken > this is a unix distibution. > > Jan Jitze Krol This is, by no means, the full bsd distribution but is only the parts of the 4.3 distribution that have been freed of AT&T code and then released under a different licence. This code is also available from uunet.uu.net (192.48.96.2) there are lots there but also lots missing, e.g. over half the kernel. Many utilies are there in full (especially the network stuff) others are missing. Some time ago some netname (I can't remember who) pushed "The Regents of Berekely" into releasing the code that was AT&T free, but there still has to be a lot more than this freed before anyone can come along and build a system from it. Alan Alan W Black 80 South Bridge, Edinburgh, UK Dept of Artificial Intelligence tel: (+44) -31 650 2713 University of Edinburgh email: awb@ed.ac.uk