ken mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think somewhere down the path, we missed something.
> I'll try to say that someone may have been mentioning
> this concept: http://www.debian.org/ports/
>
> If you look closely, there are a few paragraphs about
> taking kernels and building the Debian OS around those
> kernels (Debian GNU/OpenSolaris = Solaris kernel with
> Debian infrastructure (OS w/ported apps) built around
> it). I think the NetBSD people are doing something
> like this as well. So, we take out the Linux kernel
> and just compile the same Debian sources around the
> Solaris/OpenSolaris kernel.
You cannot do this because the Debian people apply patches
on the sources that are Linux specific and in many cases are
known to break compatibility with other platforms like
Solaris.
Jörg
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