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Re: Debian/Solaris



On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 08:58:05AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Darren O. Benham wrote:
> > 
> > Or more the the point...when does BSD become Debian GNU/BSD?  When does
> > Solaris become Debian GNU/Solaris (there is such a project, right?)
> 
> I build some debian packages for Solaris a while back. The remains of that
> project are at ftp://ftp.fuller.edu/Solaris. But apart from that the
> project is dead. I just came up with that name. It was not intended as a
> full distribution but as debian packages and dpkg working on a
> differnet OS utilizing system resources (such as c library and native
> binaries). Solaris is a quite sysadmin hostile environment from my
> experience.
And I was taking it as an example.  I have no access (or real interest) in
solaris
> 
> Debian/BSD probably means you want to do it from ground up and have no
> native BSD binaries right?
I don't know.  Somebody came up with a pretty good point about maintaining
compatibility with other -- non-Debian BSD applications.  I"m real tempted,
now, to keep the BSD libc at a minimum.  
> 
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