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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. Debian is an OS? by CheeseMunkie · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    *blink*

    I thought Debian was a distribution? That is, it's a kernel and assorted utilities. If we want to get right down to it, I always thought the kernel itself was the OS...

    What makes a distribution is its installer and software management. That is, the main difference between SuSE and Debian and Red Hat is yast, apt, and rpm. So... They're porting apt to NetBSD? That's well and good, but is both unnecessary and not worth this fanfare.

  2. ^ Mod this up by biftek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That would have to be probably the best bit of writing i've seen on slashdot for a while. I got strange deja vu to some other book i've read (no, not copied text, just the idea), but can't remember the title. Oh well.