Debian for Solaris, HP-UX, etc.
Hello
just to start another flamewar (or rather hope that I'm failing in
starting a flamewar): What about Debian vor proprietary OSs?
Two reasons why I asked this question:
1) In our institute we've got an Ultrasparc 10 which was configured
to run a network spectrum analysis and only this. There were
no user logins (just root :-(((), no gateway defined (no connection
to anywhere (except the connections defined in the network analysis
program), no cc installed (a call to 'cc' claimed to have not installed
any development bundle. To say it short: It is a poor box.
Do I have to start from scratch to install all the fine GNU software.
I really dislike tis idea because I know how it *could* work
much better!
2) OK, so far this discussion would nit distinguish from the
Debian/*BSD discussion which was quite long and I really lost
the queue of discussion.
But the second reason would probably that we could convince some
companies to switch to dpkg because it is so fine. If I would be
a Sun employee and would see, how fine the Debian packaging system
works I'd try to adapt it to my own system.
In my opinion we could loose nothing, if we would support this or
would just give the starting kick for such a project but could
win something from further development inside these companies.
Just my two cents
Andreas.
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