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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. The snake eats its tail... by Anonymous Coward · · 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!