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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. Re:Transition by m_ilya · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Funny but I've switched my desktop OS in slightly different order:

    RedHat -> Slackware -> FreeBSD -> Debian

    For desktop OS I find Debian Linux more convient than FreeBSD for two reasons:

    • Linux have better support for multimedia devices than FreeBSD
    • Debian have more prepackaged software than FreeBSD and in general quality of debian packages is better than FreeBSD ports thanks for Debian strict packaging policy.

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