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]

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: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.