Re: Debian GNU userland for SunOS
http://openrock.net/Solaris has my ancient attempt to do just that. Tell
me if its totally rotten then I might finally wipe out my solaris
archive...
On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Chad Miller wrote:
> >From the responses I've received, I guess I should be more precise in
> what I'd like to do:
>
> (Cross-?)Compile GNU programs for SunOS, and release them. No kernel, no
> Sun binaries, &c. It should contain exactly everything that's released
> with Debian Linux or Hurd, except the kernel, and kernel loader.
>
> The installation procedure should partition disks or at least wipe them,
> preserving whatever kernel and boot-necessary stuff is already there, and
> removing everything that's userland-related. It then installs a FHS-
> compliant, GNU system.
>
> It's not an operating system, exactly, so calling it Debian GNU/SunOS is
> misleading, so that will have to be addressed. Ideas? Flames?
>
> - chad
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> BTW, in The Debian Free Software Guidelines, part 4, there's a split
> infinitive in the parenthesied part.
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> --- social_contract Sat Feb 12 16:14:01 2000
> +++ social_contract-mod Sat Feb 12 16:15:12 2000
> @@ -128,3 +128,3 @@
> number from the original software. (<em>This is a
> - compromise. The Debian group encourages all authors to not
> + compromise. The Debian group encourages all authors not to
> restrict any files, source or binary, from being
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