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Debian NetBSD

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-something-different dept.

bXTr writes "Interesting project over at SourceForge. Quoting from the website, 'Debian NetBSD is a port of the Debian Operating System to the NetBSD kernel. It is currently in an early stage of development and cannot currently be installed from scratch. Instead, a tarball of the current envionment is available and can be extracted into a handy directory on a NetBSD system.' Check out the reasons why they're doing it and some interesting commentary at DailyDaemonNews on this."

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  1. yeah but,,, by fiftyfly · · Score: 2, Funny

    how would you pronounce that? "nut-bastard?"

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    "Sanity is not statistical", George Orwell, "1984"
  2. I shoulda seen this one coming... by xcomputer_man · · Score: 3, Funny

    Finally, it's the GNU/BSD distribution!

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    Am I a hipster-doofus?
    1. Re:I shoulda seen this one coming... by CatherineCornelius · · Score: 5, Funny
      Finally, it's the GNU/BSD distribution!

      Gnu's not Unix...except when it is.

  3. Re: I actually have seen the pattern.... by Pengo · · Score: 3, Funny


    Mandrake/RedHat -> Debian/Slackware -> *BSD -> Debian

    ;-)

  4. Re:I would prefer the other way around by Dahan · · Score: 3, Funny
    personally, I would like to see a BSD distro with ports and all, but with a linux kernel.

    Me too, but only to annoy the FSF zealots who keep insisting on GNU/this and GNU/that :) LinuxBSD would be funny--nothing GNU except for the toolchain and a few other utilities. I don't actually see a real advantage of a system like that over a standard Linux distro, but the idea amuses me :)

  5. What next? by archen · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does this mean that the "BSD is dyeing" guy is going to finally update his message to include Linux?