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Porting Debian to... Windows
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.
After this I recommend they work on getting the Linux kernel to work, then maybe a Windowing system, XFree might do the trick, then the various utilities that Debian is known for.
Wait a minute, that's not Windows at all...
Shouldn't you have used this icon instead?
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Isnt this backward? Should we be porting software from Windows to Linux(e.g., WINE) instead of from Linux to Windows? Come on, Windows has enough good software already. Why spend time porting the useful stuff from Linux into the busted Windows environment?
This makes it easier for people to stay in Windows. I'm gonna do some research because I suspect Bill G. must be behind this.
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Give me LIBERTY, or give me a check.
This port is meant to run on any win32 implementation. Some win32
implementations are free (wine, reactos), others are not (microsoft).
free implementations are of course recommended and cygwin is proven
to work fine on wine.
Let's see... Install Linux, configure WINE and then....
Install Linux!
Why not GNU/Windows?
Apart from the regular obligatory joke about running DPKG on Cygnus on WINE on Linux, one wonders how this thing uses the Windows registry.
Most windows apps still use the registry to store app specific info.
Will dpkg use the same?
...is when the team announce the latest Unstable release, Windows users will feel right at home :)
--- Hot Shot City is particularly good.
I'm dying to see WINE ported to Win32! :-)
MOD THE CHILD UP!
eventually the linux apps will overtake the quality of the windows apps
Waiting...tapping foot...still waiting....yawn...
When tools make it possible to run Windows software under Linux, it will make people switch to Linux, as they can still run there Windows software.
When tools makes it possible to run Linux software on Windows, it will make people switch to Linux becourse they will be familier with the software anyway.
Well have to give you credit for the spirit, if not the logic.
This may shock you but you cannot "take it and do whatever you want to with it". I would receive a Richard Stallman rectal exam if I were to take any of the GPL components of Debian and utilized them in a commercial product without releasing the source. I have done some stupid, dumb things in my life like bungie jumping, walking in certain neighborhoods in New Orleans after midnight and running a NT webserver but there is one thing I would never dare to do. I would never do anything that caused Richard Stallman to come in contact with me. Now that's scary.
Respect the GPL or meet a fate worst than death!
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
No, no, no... Computers are not tools, they are sacred instruments of religious worship. Every Windows CD microwaved is a sacrifice to Linus the Great. There is no god but Linus. Praise the Penguin! Grovel before the Beatified - RMS, AC et al. Soon the Kingdom of OSS is to come, and the Mighty Redmond will perish. The geek shall internet the Earth.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Once there are no killer Windows apps left to replace, there will be no reason to have Windows at all-- and wouldn't that be nice? :)
Well, that's one of the problems, isn't it? Bill and his armies of coders aren't going to stand still, wait for Linux to catch up in terms of application volume and quality (as perceived by the average PC-buying person), and then say "Ah, now we have a fair, level playing field on which we can compete with Linux. Let's start designing stuff again".
*ahem* Shouldn't the be called "GNU/Windows"?
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