Debian NetBSD

bXTr writes "Interesting project over at SourceForge. Quoting from the website, 'Debian NetBSD is a port of the Debian Operating System to the NetBSD kernel. It is currently in an early stage of development and cannot currently be installed from scratch. Instead, a tarball of the current envionment is available and can be extracted into a handy directory on a NetBSD system.' Check out the reasons why they're doing it and some interesting commentary at DailyDaemonNews on this."

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[Anonymous Coward]

for those to lazy to click the link here is what it says:

Why Debian NetBSD?
NetBSD runs on hardware unsupported by Linux. Porting Debian to the NetBSD kernel increases the number of platforms that can run a GNU-based operating system.
The Debian Hurd project demonstrates that Debian is not tied to one specific kernel. However, the Hurd kernel is still relatively immature - a Debian NetBSD system would be usable at a production level.
Lessons learned from the porting of Debian to NetBSD can be used in porting Debian to other kernels (such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD).
In contrast to projects like Fink or Debian w32, Debian NetBSD does not exist in order to provide extra software or a Unix-style environment to an existing OS (the *BSD ports trees are already comprehensive, and they unarguably provide a Unix-style environment). Instead, a user or administrator used to a more traditional Debian system should feel comfortable with a Debian NetBSD system immediately and competent in a relatively short period of time.
Not everybody likes the *BSD ports tree or the *BSD userland (this is a personal preference thing, rather than any sort of comment on quality). Linux distributions have been produced which provide *BSD style ports or a *BSD style userland for those who like the BSD user environment but also wish to use the Linux kernel - Debian NetBSD is the logical reverse of this, allowing people who like the GNU userland or a Linux-style packaging system to use the NetBSD kernel.
Because we can.

hmm

[Enrico Pulatzo]

How's that for your hardcore, commie conspiracy?

yeah but,,,

[fiftyfly]

how would you pronounce that? "nut-bastard?"

Re:So how long...

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know, but I can say it will happen before Richard Stallman takes a shower.

I shoulda seen this one coming...

[xcomputer_man]

Finally, it's the GNU/BSD distribution!

Re:I shoulda seen this one coming...

[CatherineCornelius]

Finally, it's the GNU/BSD distribution!

Gnu's not Unix...except when it is.

Re: I actually have seen the pattern....

[Pengo]

Mandrake/RedHat -> Debian/Slackware -> *BSD -> Debian

;-)

Re:I would prefer the other way around

[Dahan]

personally, I would like to see a BSD distro with ports and all, but with a linux kernel.

Me too, but only to annoy the FSF zealots who keep insisting on GNU/this and GNU/that :) LinuxBSD would be funny--nothing GNU except for the toolchain and a few other utilities. I don't actually see a real advantage of a system like that over a standard Linux distro, but the idea amuses me :)

What next?

[archen]

Does this mean that the "BSD is dyeing" guy is going to finally update his message to include Linux?