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Debian NetBSD for Sparc

Posted by Hemos on from the building-it-for-Sun dept.

Dan writes "Matthew Garrett has demonstrated his success in building a Debian operating system on the Sparc architecture on top of the NetBSD kernel. Additionally Joel Baker reported about significant work for the NetBSD/x86 port, such as dpkg and APT, that will work without additional patches. NetBSD runs on hardware unsupported by Linux. Folks working on the project say that porting Debian to the NetBSD kernel increases the number of platforms that can run a Debian-based operating system."

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  1. Re:Why Not run the Superior NetBSD?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    the difference is that you will have all the GNU tools and it will be in the format of a linux system

    That's great, I'll get the poorly documented GNU userland and shitty System V init. I think I'll stick to vanilla NetBSD with it's decent man pages and rc.d system.

  2. Debian sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah, Debian sucks. It's inconsistent. Not like the SSS principle of Slackware. Red Hat works fine as well. SlashDot Editors: Why Slackware doesn't have its own logo and when something is about Slack we just see a pinguin??? Tux does it with Slack!!!

  3. Re:*BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    and now Debian / Gnu *BSD. Thus, debian is dying..

  4. Slackware rulez! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You got it. No Debian please. Many users think that Debian is the only GNU/Linux distro; that's not true! There are better distroes! Simple_Solid_Stable_Secure = Slackware

  5. Re:What about Slackware? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hehe, you're right. If I had job (sys/net admin) and servers were needed would buy Intel-compatible and run Slackware or Red Hat. Not "Debian GNU/BSD" LOL These guys are crazy. I love simplicity.