Porting Debian to... Windows

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Posted by michael on Tuesday December 4, 2001 @02:39AM 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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Walking arse first by KarmaBlackballed · 2001-12-04 02:47 · Score: 3, Funny

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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The snake eats its tail... by Anonymous Coward · 2001-12-04 02:48 · Score: 4, Funny

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!
Another advantage... by mav[LAG] · 2001-12-04 03:34 · Score: 3, Funny

...is when the team announce the latest Unstable release, Windows users will feel right at home :)

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Re:Sometimes the OS doesn't matter by Anonymous Coward · 2001-12-04 03:42 · Score: 3, Funny

eventually the linux apps will overtake the quality of the windows apps

Waiting...tapping foot...still waiting....yawn...
Re:At first by Anonymous Coward · 2001-12-04 03:47 · Score: 3, Funny

It's amazing how the slashdot people can look at the positive side of everything...
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.
What ever you want? Don't Think So! by toupsie · 2001-12-04 04:09 · Score: 3, Funny

This may bother you, but everything on Debian is Open Source. And that means that you can take it and do whatever you want to with it, including porting it to windows.
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!

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