Debian NetBSD for Sparc

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."

Comments

Genesis

[mirko]

In the begining
There was nothing
then God said :
apt-get install light

Re:Genesis

[Anonymous Coward]

There is one true God, and he uses the ports tree.

Re:Genesis

[Anonymous Coward]

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night,
God said, "Let Newton be," and all was light.

-- Alexander Pope

It did not last; the devil howling "Ho!
Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo.

-- Sir John Collings Squire

Re:Genesis

[Anonymous Coward]

thought it was apt-get install man,
packages required: light, water-land, animals, birds, fish, plants, earth, etc...
and he downloaded and installed for 6 days, on the 7th he said "oh, its finally done."

and now we wait for the day he types
>apt-get remove satan
>dpkg-reconfigure reality

Re:Genesis

[MrHanky]

The world was taken into production, and God made Adam and Eve:

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man:

$ man woman

UNDOCUMENTED(7) Linux Programmer's Manual UNDOCUMENTED(7)

NAME

undocumented - No manpage for this program, utility or function.

DESCRIPTION

This program, utility or function does not have a useful manpage. Before opening a bug to report this, please check with the Debian Bug Tracking System (BTS) at <http://bugs.debian.org/> if a bug has already been reported. If not, you can submit a wishlist bug if you want.

Later on, Adam had two sons, and both submitted wishlist bugs for Woman.

Re:Genesis

[ajs]

thought it was apt-get install man,
packages required: light, water-land, animals, birds, fish, plants, earth, etc...
and he downloaded and installed for 6 days, on the 7th he said "oh, its finally done."

Hmm, I think there was something about crashing on the 7th day... Of course, I may be mis-translating ;-)

Re:Genesis

[Anonymous Coward]

Downloaded and installed for 6 days? Had to be Gentoo.

Re:Genesis

[Anonymous Coward]

No he said
rpm --install universe.rpm
after mounting the three dimensions
and restarting the daemons

Stupid debian maintainer humor
was still present in the universe though
so God pressed Ctrl-Alt-Del
and went to play soul reaver on his Playstation

You've got to admire these guys

[rf0]

NetBSD can run on more platforms than you can shake a stick at. Also with the ability to run IRIX binaries as well gives it a bit more depth/reach. Just shows what portable code can do. Anyway time to boot my Dreamcast :)

Rus

Re:You've got to admire these guys

[SuperCal]

"can run on more platforms than you can shake a stick at",

After shakeing a stick at my XBox, I can say without reservation, that while net BSD will run on many many systems, it will not run on more platforms than one can shake a stick at.


The previous sentence is preposition terminated.

Re:You've got to admire these guys

[Faggot]

The NetBSD Project -- We Use Irix So You Don't Have To!

Re:You've got to admire these guys

[toganet]

You shook your stick at one platform. So far you've beat Novell.

Re:You've got to admire these guys

[CoolVibe]

Huh?

(yeah, that was an old (last years) april fool joke of mine, but what the heck :) Lots of japanese fell for it hook, line and sinker.)

Debian

[chevelleSS]

It is great to see Debian running on everything known to man.. However I have never understood why they are so far behind other distributions?

Gnu Debian BSD

[Zach Garner]

Gnu/Debian BSD

Why God, Why!?

Thank you Captain Obvious

[Anonymous Coward]

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."

In related news, scientists for the dairy industry announced that pouring milk into glasses will increase the number of glasses which contain milk.

favorite movie

[Anonymous Coward]

Debian does Dallas.

Re:why?

[Anonymous Coward]

FreeBSD has 7000 or 8000 ports in it's ports tree now. I don't know about NetBSD -- as I don't run it.

But seriously now, does anyone REALLY need any more xclocks?!?

It's not the size that counts, it's how you use it.

Re:Why Not run the Superior NetBSD??

[Anonymous Coward]

basicly(sic) your(sic) getting debian linux with the netbsd kernel replacing the linux kernel.

Does that mean it should be called Debian GNU/Linux/NetBSD?

Debfoster?

[Vagary]

God, being a perfect being, must be using debfoster, the perfect package management tool. So assuming that the only fostered package is man, only packages man depends on should be keepers. If man were to no longer depend on lucifer, it would be automatically unfostered. So either man depends on satan, or God has fostered satan. (I think I've heard both arguments from modern theologists...)