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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:what makes it debian? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you read the Debian homepage you will see that Debian is striving to provide a platform-agnostic, kernel-agnostic operation system environment.

    As well as Debian GNU/Linux there is already Debian GNU/Hurd.

    Debian/NetBSD is an effort to provide the NetBSD kernel with the Debian software utilities. I for one can't wait.

    You're not missing the point of what a distro is, this is something the Debian folk want to do.