On 26/02/13 23:08, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi, > > Steven Chamberlain wrote: >> On 26/02/13 08:26, Martin wrote: >>> I understand that the Debian GNU Netbsd project is inactive and has been >>> since 2002, but is the source of what was done still available? >> >> It would be nice to be able to dig this up, but it's actually kind of >> strange how few traces of it can still be found online. It seems like >> bandwidth, FTP space and source code repositories were still relatively >> scarce 10 years ago. > > IIRC the final death for Debian GNU/NetBSD and Debian GNU/FreeBSD > (without "k") was a fire in combination with no backup: > > http://web.archive.org/web/20110728174822/http://www.debian.org/ports/freebsd/bsd-libc-based > (Citing from there: "There were packages available but the public copy > is no longer available due to a server lost in fire. Due to this and > some other unfortunate circumstances, the progress on the port is > presently stalled.") > > See also http://www.debian.org/News/2002/20021122 > > Guessing from other sources on the net, it seems that the GNU/NetBSD > and Debian GNU/FreeBSD (without "k") projects had a lot in common, so > this probably also explains the lack of code and other traces on the > net for Debian GNU/NetBSD. > > Regards, Axel Here you have some more information: * Original thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha/6253 * Files linked in the thread recovered from the past: http://web.archive.org/web/20040407191631/http://people.debian.org/~rmh/knetbsd/pub/
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