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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. *sigh* by TheViciousOverWind · · Score: 0, Redundant
    1. Port Debian to every platform known to man
    2. ???
    3. PROFIT!
    --
    My <1000 UID is with a hot chick
  2. What's next? by f97magu · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Ok, we have Debian NetBSD for Sparc running. What's next?

    GNU AIX for Mips?
    Apple Windows for Alpha?
    Microsoft FreeBSD for 6502?

  3. What I'd love to see... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What I'd love to see is one of the BSD's using the Linux kernel.

    Clean, comfortable and standard userland space with all the bells and whistles of the Linux kernel; with the usual 'experimental' drivers in the production release kernels.