Timeline 1994

4.4BSD-Lite

The release of 4.4BSD-Lite was annoounced ad March 1, 1994.

The distribution is a source distribution only, and does not contain program binaries for any architecture. It will not be possible to compile or run this software without a pre-existing system that is already installed and running. In addition, the distribution does not include sources for a complete system. It includes source code and manual pages for the C library, approximately 90% of the utilities distributed as part of 4.4BSD, and most of the kernel (the same subsystems that were deleted in Net/2 are still missing in 4.4BSD-Lite - support for executing files, doing physical I/O, managing the buffer cache, handling process tracing, terminal character I/O, and doing accounting). Because the Computer Systems Research Group has shut down (other than a brief reunion to put together this release), there will not be anyone available at Berkeley to assist with problems, so sites are encouraged to ensure enough local expertise to find and fix any problems that are encountered.

Source: http://www.de.freebsd.org/de/ftp/releases/4.4BSD-Lite

FreeBSD 2.0

FreeBSD 2.0 was released in november.

Some highlights from the new features

• This release is based entirely on CSRG's latest (and last) BSD release - 4.4 Lite.
• IP multicast support upgraded from the woefully ancient 1.x code in 4.4-Lite to the most current and up-to-date 3.3 release from Steve D. and Ajit. The non-forwarding code is known to work (for some limited test cases).
• Loadable Kernel Modules; most filesystems are now dynamically loadable on demand

Source: The release notes.