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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. Oh, come on now, this is ridiculous! by DoctorScooby · · Score: 1, Troll

    I mean, won't you people just let BSD die in peace?

    Especially NetBSD. Everybody who's trying to run BSD on a Vic20 should just be shot. Really.

  2. "Up Yours, MS"/OS by RLiegh · · Score: 0, Troll

    There's a ton of home-brew linux OS's out there. Why not add your UYM$/OS to the fray? :)

  3. Big deal by mao+che+minh · · Score: 0, Troll

    Big deal, it still isn't Linux.