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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. Genesis by mirko · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    1. Re:Genesis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      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

    2. Re:Genesis by ajs · · Score: 4, Funny

      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 ;-)

  2. You've got to admire these guys by rf0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

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    1. Re:You've got to admire these guys by SuperCal · · Score: 5, Funny

      "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.

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  3. Debian by chevelleSS · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?