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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."

2 of 245 comments (clear)

  1. Come on now, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How many times do I have to tell you, it's just not funny!
    Damn it, quit your laughing, it's really not!

    Stop it already! I'm serious!!

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

    Uh...

    Why on earth would you want to run Debian on top of NetBSD, when you could run the real thing?? Rock Solid, multi-architecture, Fast-as-hell TCP stack... All the things that make NetBSD the place to be!