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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. Re:At first by silicon_synapse · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    I'm not sure I agree. The Debian tools aren't too scary; it's the Debian install that's a bear. If there was a better installer for Debian I garauntee many more people would use it. It really is terrible if you haven't installed Debian a dozen times. Most people would give up on Debian before the install is complete and just use Mandrake or something. Are there any private projects to provide an alternate isntaller for Debian?