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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. I would prefer the other way around by horster · · Score: 5, Informative

    personally, I would like to see a BSD distro with ports and all, but with a linux kernel.

    I just installed FreeBSD recently and have to say i was blown away with how professional the installer was, very simple and powerful - not to mention the ports system.
    debian is nice, apt-get is a great program and the net install is awesome, but I can't say I have much love for dselect. I think debian shows the most promise of any linux distro right now, but in terms of polish, I have to give it to FreeBSD so far.

  2. Debian is not Linux by CatherineCornelius · · Score: 5, Informative
    To me, this is promising. I like to see cooperation between the Linux world and the *BSD world.

    Well I agree with you that it's promising, but do remember that the Debian project is not Linux, but a GNU operating system. There is Debian GNU Linux, and there is Debian GNU HURD, and now (apparently) Debian GNU BSD.