marka@phi.UUCP (Mark Allen) (01/02/91)
Does anyone know how to get a copy of the 386BSD UNIX discussed in the January
issue of Dr. Dobb's?
Thanks in advance.
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In article <180@phi.UUCP>, marka@phi.UUCP (Mark Allen) writes:
Mark> Does anyone know how to get a copy of the 386BSD UNIX discussed
Mark> in the January issue of Dr. Dobb's?
I read over the article a few times, and they mention that you had to
meet UCB's requirements... Perchance is one of those requirements an
AT&T source license as required for all other BSD implementations.
Afterall, in the article the authors of 386BSD said that they started
with old BSD source for another platform... Actually the fact that the
authors once held an AT&T source license (I assume since they worked
on BSD before), I would naturally assume that 386BSD would still
require AT&T licensing as a derivative work...
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Anyone able to tell me what the requirements for bsd source license are? and who to contact? This is a university and we have at&t license already. shouldn't be a big problem I wouldn't think. -- Randy Buckland "It's hard to work North Carolina State University in a group when you're randy@ncsu.edu (919) 737-2517 omnipotent" -- Q
herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (daniel lance herrick) (01/10/91)
In article <180@phi.UUCP>, marka@phi.UUCP (Mark Allen) writes: > Does anyone know how to get a copy of the 386BSD UNIX discussed in the January > issue of Dr. Dobb's? There was an email address for one of the authors / implementers with the article. The following answer to my question came after Christmas: Subject: Re: 386BSD availability From abvax!iccgcc.DNET!herrickd@uunet.UU.NET Fri Dec 21 12:18:39 1990 Date: 21 Dec 90 14:13:00 EDT From: "CONTR HERRICK, DAN" <abvax!iccgcc.DNET!herrickd@uunet.UU.NET> Subject: 386BSD availability To: "william%berkeley.edu" <william%berkeley.edu%uunet.uu.net@abvax.icd.ab.com> Dear William, In your article about the port, you close by saying "Those of you who can meet U of Cal requirements should obtain a copy of 386BSD from the U of Cal...." But you give no hint of where to begin the process. Help. dan herrick herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com 386BSD is distributed by the University of California at Berkeley CSRG. You should contact them at 415-642-7780 when 386BSD is available. In the meantime, the February issue will feature several complete and freely redistributable programs used in the actual 386BSD port. In addition, those are universities and research institutions and some commercial entities may be covered under current source license agreements. In this case, the next release of the Reno tape will have most of the 386 work merged in, if not all of it. BTW, here is the University's official statement on the subject: " The 386BSD support will be available in February as part of a revision of the 1989 Networking Release distribution. One very important fact to remember is, that although the 386BSD itself support is not AT&T proprietary, much of the rest of the operating system and utilities ARE AT&T proprietary. Therefore, the February distribution will NOT be a complete system and cannot be booted or run on a 386 machine. The distribution will not require an AT&T license, but will require a Berkeley license and distribution fee. Previous fees were approximately $500, but the actual fee has not yet been determined. The 4.4BSD release is scheduled for the middle of 1991, and additional, non-proprietary support for the 386 will be made available at that time." Thank you for your kind interest, Bill and Lynne Jolitz. end of quotation. My impression from this is: 1: this is not cheapnix. 2: it is not past tense as the intro to the issue editorial suggested 3: they want people using it, but Berkeley wants them to be the right kind of people The articles will make good reading, regardless of availability. dan herrick herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (01/10/91)
In article <4700@awdprime.UUCP> woan@excelsior (Ronald S Woan) writes: In article <180@phi.UUCP>, marka@phi.UUCP (Mark Allen) writes: Mark> Does anyone know how to get a copy of the 386BSD UNIX discussed Mark> in the January issue of Dr. Dobb's? I read over the article a few times, and they mention that you had to meet UCB's requirements... Perchance is one of those requirements an AT&T source license as required for all other BSD implementations. Yup. Plus you have to get a BSD4.4 license from UCB. It's NOT as exciting as it first sounded. Me, I'm still waiting for the GNU Kernel. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) FAX 315-268-7600 It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear -- Freeman Dyson I joined the League for Programming Freedom, and I hope you'll join too.
cfreas@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Terry Freas) (01/11/91)
In article <180@phi.UUCP> marka@phi.UUCP (Mark Allen) writes: >Does anyone know how to get a copy of the 386BSD UNIX discussed in the January >issue of Dr. Dobb's? Read the editorial. It might not be finished yet. Over the course of the next several issues, articles will appear describing the system culminating with info. on how to get the distribution. -- Jeremy Wohl / wohl@max.physics.sunysb.edu / cfreas@csserv1.ic.sunysb.edu