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Porting Debian to... Windows

Posted by michael on from the not-making-this-up dept.

mike_sucks writes: "The first step to porting Debian to the Win32 platform has been made - dpkg is compiling under Cygwin. Check out the post on debian-devel and the Debian GNU/w32 port's site." Some of the posters on the debian-devel list aren't too pleased with the idea.

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  1. Whats the point? by HanzoSan · · Score: 1, Flamebait



    Its a waste of time, this time could be used for something important.

    ITs not important to port this stuff to windows. If people in windows want linux they can use linux, we dont need to port it to them.

    Its as stupid as Microsoft porting games from Xbox to Windows.

    Why should Microsoft do it? why keep people from buying Xbox?

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    If you use Linux, please help development of Autopac
  2. You mean will it attract morons with their heads ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You mean will it attract morons with their heads up their a$$e$.?
    No because if it was not the case they would have already looked at linux, and if the are stupid enough not to look. We dont want them

  3. Re:OOPS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Fuck off.