Re: Debian for Solaris, HP-UX, etc.
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 03:03:59PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> just to start another flamewar (or rather hope that I'm failing in
>> starting a flamewar): What about Debian vor proprietary OSs?
>>
>
>Just a note, I do know of a company that is hoping to base a dist on the
>Solaris kernel and infrastructure and using Debian as the core of
>applications. However, Debian itself will never support this as we
>consider it very non-free (because it requires non-free software of the
>Solaris kernel in order to use it). The same could be said for HP, AIX,
>etc...
I thought that Linux/SPARC used the same system calls as Solaris/SPARC?
If I'm correct in this then surely you could install that Solaris/Debian OS
and then install a Linux kernel package. If not then what's stopping this
from being done?
--
Confucius wrote: To be fond of knowledge is better than simply acquiring it,
and to take delight in it is far better than simply being fond of it.
Reply to: