Update GNU/NetBSD port pages

Drop most irrelevant information and dead links. Make it extremely
clear the port is completely abandoned. Merge most of the remaining
content which might be of historical interest into a single page.

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diff --git a/english/ports/netbsd/alpha.wml b/english/ports/netbsd/alpha.wml
deleted file mode 100644
index 61399e4dc9d..00000000000
--- a/english/ports/netbsd/alpha.wml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,118 +0,0 @@
-#use wml::debian::template title="Debian GNU/NetBSD for Alpha" BARETITLE="yes" NOHEADER="yes"
-#use wml::fmt::verbatim
-{#style#:
-<style type="text/css">
-    pre.input {
-	margin-left:	5%;
-    }
-</style>
-:##}
-
-<div class="important">
-<p><strong>
-This porting effort has long been abandoned. It has had no updates since october
-2002. The information in this page is only for historical purposes.
-</strong></p>
-</div>
-
-
-<h1>Debian GNU/NetBSD for Alpha</h1>
-
-
-<h2>Status</h2>
-
-<p>This port is currently at a very preliminary stage.  Currently, it
-cannot boot of its own, but a build chroot which is hosted on a native
-NetBSD-alpha system is setup.  Some basic packages are already done,
-and it is now even possible to build some packages with:</p>
-
-<pre class="input">
-    (chroot)# dpkg-source -x package.dsc
-    (chroot)# cd package-*
-    (chroot)# dpkg-buildpackage -d -us -uc
-</pre>
-
-<p>However, the chroot to build these packages in is still using most
-of NetBSD's libraries (in particular its libc), along with gcc and
-binutils.  The current subgoal is to build a fully working
-<em>native</em> Debian tool chain.  There are some <a
-href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2002/debian-bsd-200201/msg00203.html">issues</a>
-with this, so any help is greatly appreciated.</p>
-
-
-<h2>Available Packages</h2>
-
-<p>Most of the binary packages produced so far did compile with
-little to no changes, although some features had to be turned off for
-now due to the lack of some build dependencies.</p>
-
-<verbatim>
-||/ Name              Version               Description
-+++-=================-=====================-==================================================================
-ii  autoconf2.13      2.13-39               automatic configure script builder (obsolete version)
-ii  automake          1.4-p4-1.1            A tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles.
-ii  autotools-dev     20020102.1            Update infrastructure for config.{guess,sub} files
-ii  bison             1.32-1                A parser generator that is compatible with YACC.
-ii  bzip2             1.0.1-14              A high-quality block-sorting file compressor - utilities
-ii  debconf           1.0.25                Debian configuration management system
-ii  debconf-utils     1.0.25                Debconf utilities
-ii  debhelper         3.4.1                 helper programs for debian/rules
-ii  debianutils       1.15                  Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian.
-ii  dejagnu           1.4-4                 framework for running test suites on software tools.
-ii  diff              2.7-28                File comparison utilities
-ii  dpkg              1.9.18                Package maintenance system for Debian
-ii  dpkg-dev          1.9.18                Package building tools for Debian
-ii  file              3.37-3                Determines file type using "magic" numbers
-ii  flex              2.5.4a-20             A fast lexical analyzer generator.
-ii  flex-doc          2.5.4a-20             Documentation for GNU flex.
-ii  gettext           0.10.40-1             GNU Internationalization utilities
-ii  gettext-base      0.10.40-1             GNU Internationalization utilities for the base system
-ii  groff             1.17.2-16             GNU troff text-formatting system
-ii  groff-base        1.17.2-16             GNU troff text-formatting system (base system components)
-ii  gzip              1.3.2-3               The GNU compression utility.
-ii  hostname          2.09                  A utility to set/show the host name or domain name
-ii  info              4.0b-2                Standalone GNU Info documentation browser
-ii  libbz2-1.0        1.0.1-14              A high-quality block-sorting file compressor library - runtime
-ii  libbz2-dev        1.0.1-14              A high-quality block-sorting file compressor library - development
-ii  m4                1.4-14                a macro processing language
-ii  patch             2.5.4-6               Apply a diff file to an original
-ii  tar               1.13.25-1             GNU tar
-ii  texi2html         1.64-cvs20010402-2    Convert Texinfo files to HTML
-ii  texinfo           4.0b-2                Documentation system for on-line information and printed output
-ii  wget              1.7-3                 utility to retrieve files from the WWW via HTTP and FTP
-ii  zlib-bin          1.1.3-19              compression library - sample programs
-ii  zlib1g            1.1.3-19              compression library - runtime
-ii  zlib1g-dev        1.1.3-19              compression library - development
-</verbatim>
-
-
-<h2>Resources</h2>
-
-<h3>Packages</h3> 
-
-<p>
-Currently, neither the binary packages nor the build chroot is
-available online, but will be soon.
-</p>
-
-<h3>Patches</h3>
-
-<ul>
-<li><a href="https://people.debian.org/~michaelw/debian-netbsd.patch">
-quick'n'dirty patch</a> to make <a href="https://packages.debian.org/dpkg">
-dpkg</a> compile.  With some additional tweaking of
-<code>INCLUDE_PATH</code> and <code>LDFLAGS</code>, it even compiles
-on a <em>native</em> NetBSD system.
-</li>
-</ul>
-	
-
-<h2>Contact</h2>
-
-<p>For further information please contact <a
-href="mailto:michaelw@debian.org?subject=Debian%20GNU/NetBSD%20Alpha">
-Michael Weber</a>.</p>
-
-## Local variables:
-## sgml-default-doctype-name: "HTML"
-## End:
diff --git a/english/ports/netbsd/index.wml b/english/ports/netbsd/index.wml
index 13b13576f6e..8e76caa36ff 100644
--- a/english/ports/netbsd/index.wml
+++ b/english/ports/netbsd/index.wml
@@ -1,218 +1,133 @@
 #use wml::debian::template title="Debian GNU/NetBSD" BARETITLE="yes" NOHEADER="yes"
 #use wml::fmt::verbatim
-{#style#:
-<style type="text/css">
-    .update {
-	color:		red;
-	background:	inherit;
-	font-weight:	bold;
-    }
-</style>
-:##}
-
-<define-tag update endtag=required>
-  <p><span class="update">UPDATE: </span>
-    %body
-  </p>
-</define-tag>
-
 
 #############################################################################
 <div class="important">
 <p><strong>
-This porting effort has long been abandoned. It has had no updates since october
+This porting effort has long been abandoned. It has had no updates since October
 2002. The information in this page is only for historical purposes.
 </strong></p>
 </div>
 
-
 <h1>
 Debian GNU/NetBSD
 </h1>
 
-
 <p>
-Debian GNU/NetBSD is a port of the Debian Operating System to the
+Debian GNU/NetBSD (i386) was a port of the Debian Operating System to the
 NetBSD kernel and libc (not to be confused with the other Debian BSD ports
-based on glibc). It is currently in an early stage of development - however,
-it can now be installed from scratch.
+based on glibc). At the time it was abandoned (around October 2002), it was
+in an early stage of development - however, it was installable from scratch.
 </p>
 
-# link dead <p>
-#<a href="http://www.srcf.ucam.org/debian-netbsd/floppies">\
-#Download experimental install floppies</a> (last
-#updated 6th October 2002)
-#</p>
-
 <p>
-<a href="why">Why Debian GNU/NetBSD?</a>
+There was also an attempt to start a Debian GNU/NetBSD (alpha) port, which
+could be run from a chroot in a native NetBSD (alpha) system, but was not
+able to boot of its own, and was using most of the native NetBSD libraries.
+A <a
+href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2002/debian-bsd-200201/msg00203.html">status
+message</a> was sent to the list.
 </p>
 
-<h2>
-How to install
-</h2>
-
-<p>
-Download the floppy images from the above link. For laptops, use the laptop
-images - for all other machines, use the normal ones. Write these images to 
-floppies. Boot off the first disk - you will be prompted to swap disks. Once
-the menu system has appeared, follow the instructions that you are presented
-with.
-</p>
-
-<h2>
-TODO
-</h2>
-
-<p>
-Packages that need to be produced
-</p>
+<h2>Historical News</h2>
+
+<dl class="gloss">
+  <dt class="new">2002-10-06:</dt>
+  <dd>
+      Experimental install floppies are now available for installing
+      a Debian GNU/NetBSD system.
+  </dd>
+  <dt>2002-03-06:</dt>
+  <dd>
+      Matthew hacked <a href="https://packages.debian.org/ifupdown">ifupdown</a>
+      in a workable state.
+  </dd>
+  <dt>2002-02-25:</dt>
+  <dd>
+      Matthew has reported that shadow support and PAM works on NetBSD
+      now.  <a href="https://packages.debian.org/fakeroot">fakeroot</a>
+      seems to work on FreeBSD, but still has issues on NetBSD.
+  </dd>
+  <dt>2002-02-07:</dt>
+  <dd>
+      Nathan has just <a
+      href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2002/debian-bsd-200202/msg00091.html">reported</a>
+      that he got Debian GNU/FreeBSD to boot multiuser.  Also, he's
+      working on a packages-only install (using a hacked debootstrap)
+      featuring a considerably smaller tarball.
+  </dd>
+  <dt>2002-02-06:</dt>
+  <dd>
+      According to Joel gcc-2.95.4 passed most of its test-suite and
+      is packaged.
+  </dd>
+  <dt>2002-02-06:</dt>
+  <dd>X11 works on NetBSD!  Again, kudos to Joel Baker
+  </dd>
+  <dt>2002-02-04:</dt>
+  <dd>First step towards a Debian/*BSD archive: <br />
+      <a href="mailto:lucifer@lightbearer.com">Joel Baker</a>
+      <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2002/debian-bsd-200202/msg00067.html">
+      announced</a> a <kbd>dupload</kbd>able archive for FreeBSD and
+      NetBSD Debian packages.
+  </dd>
+  <dt>2002-02-03:</dt>
+  <dd>Debian GNU/NetBSD now
+      <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2002/debian-bsd-200202/msg00043.html">
+      self-hosting</a>!  Note that it still needs a working NetBSD for
+      installation.
+  </dd>
+  <dt>2002-01-30:</dt>
+  <dd>The Debian GNU/*BSD port now has a webpage!</dd>
+</dl>
+
+<h2>Why Debian GNU/NetBSD?</h2>
 
 <ul>
-<li>
-any of the libs in <kbd>/lib</kbd> or <kbd>/usr/lib</kbd> that aren't
-currently packaged need to be
-</li>
-<li>
-  base-passwd is desperately unhappy
-  <update>
-    We now have a basically working base-passwd for FreeBSD and             
-    NetBSD (modulo a segfault).  Thanks to Nathan and Matthew.              
-  </update>
-</li>
-<li>equivalents of console-tools/data need to be produced
-    <update>
-      Packages that provide the basic functionality have been produced
-    </update>
-</li>
-<li>
-netbase needs to be rebuilt. This is probably one of the more awkward
-ones - we have source for the BSD versions of ifconfig et al, but the
-semantics are somewhat different. If we stick with BSD semantics, we
-have to deal with any scripts that assume Linux-style semantics. Does
-the Hurd follow Linux-style semantics, and if not how have they dealt with
-this?
-  <update>
-     Marcus Brinkmann from the Hurd Team
-     <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2002/debian-bsd-200202/msg00087.html">\
-     clarified</a> this a bit and sketched possible solutions. The current
-     approach is to use the NetBSD tools and modify ifupdown in order to 
-     provide the same interface to the user.
-  </update>
-</li>
-<li>procps (probably best to just provide the BSD versions)</li>
-# link dead <li>sysklogd
-#  (we can probably use <a
-#  href="https://packages.debian.org/msyslog">msyslog</a> instead)
-#
-#  <update>
-#     <a href="https://packages.debian.org/msyslog">msyslog</a> works on
-#     NetBSD (modulo some hickups related to paths of files)
-#  </update>
-#</li>
-<li>sysvinit
-  (BSD init doesn't support runlevels. We can hack it to work
-  like Debian with a single runlevel without too much trouble)
-  <update>
-    sysvinit is up and running, Matthew has managed to boot natively
-    into Debian GNU/NetBSD on i386!  There are still some glitches
-    wrt. boot scripts, but it's an important step
-    towards a fully working system.
-  </update>
-</li>
-<li><a href="https://packages.debian.org/fakeroot">fakeroot</a>
-  <update>
-    Fakeroot now works.
-  </update>
-</li>
-<li>XFree86
-    (Nathan is having a go at this currently, and discovered that
-    <a href="https://packages.debian.org/ed">ed</a> is needed, which
-    segfaults.  Several people are investigating on this issue.)
-
-    <update>
-        ed works when building with libed.a.  Also, quoting Joel:
-	<q>X11 is in a workable state</q>!  It's not packaged
-	properly, but it works.  Expect packages soon.
-    </update>
-</li>
-<li>gcc-3.0
-    (Neither gcc-3.0.1 nor gcc-current are in a usable state for
-    NetBSD at the moment.  Joel has a working version of gcc-current
-    and posted the <a
-    href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2002/debian-bsd-200202/msg00137.html">results
-    of the test suite</a>.  libstdc++ is still very unhappy.)
-
-    <update>
-        gcc-3.0.4 has been released and now <a
-        href="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.0/features.html">supports
-        NetBSD ELF systems</a> (at least for the x86 target).
-    </update>
-</li>
-# link dead <li>How to handle architectures?<br />
-#    There is currently an on-going <a
-#    href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2002/debian-bsd-200202/msg00033.html">discussion</a>
-#    on the mailing list about Marcus Brinkmann's <a
-#    href="http://master.debian.org/~brinkmd/arch-handling.txt">arch-handling
-#    proposal</a>.
-#</li>
+<li>NetBSD runs on hardware unsupported by Linux. Porting Debian to
+the NetBSD kernel increases the number of platforms that can run a
+Debian-based operating system.</li>
+
+<li>The Debian GNU/Hurd project demonstrates that Debian is not tied
+to one specific kernel. However, the Hurd kernel was still relatively
+immature - a Debian GNU/NetBSD system would be usable at a production
+level.</li>
+
+<li>Lessons learned from the porting of Debian to NetBSD can be used
+in porting Debian to other kernels (such as those of <a
+href="https://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</a> and <a
+href="https://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>).</li>
+
+<li>In contrast to projects like <a href="https://www.finkproject.org/">Fink</a>,
+Debian GNU/NetBSD did not exist in order to provide extra software or a
+Unix-style environment to an existing OS (the *BSD ports trees are already
+comprehensive, and they unarguably provide a Unix-style environment).
+Instead, a user or administrator used to a more traditional Debian system
+would feel comfortable with a Debian GNU/NetBSD system immediately and
+competent in a relatively short period of time.</li>
+
+<li>Not everybody likes the *BSD ports tree or the *BSD userland (this
+is a personal preference thing, rather than any sort of comment on
+quality). Linux distributions have been produced which provide *BSD
+style ports or a *BSD style userland for those who like the BSD user
+environment but also wish to use the Linux kernel - Debian GNU/NetBSD
+is the logical reverse of this, allowing people who like the GNU
+userland or a Linux-style packaging system to use the NetBSD
+kernel.</li>
+
+<li>Because we can.</li>
 </ul>
 
-
 <h2>
 Resources
 </h2>
 
-<ul>
-<li><a href="$(HOME)/">Debian</a></li>
-
-<li><a href="http://www.netbsd.org/">NetBSD</a></li>
-
-# link dead <li>
-#<a href="http://www.srcf.ucam.org/debian-netbsd/">\
-#Matthew's apt-gettable package archive</a>
-#</li>
-
-# link dead <li>
-#<a href="http://debian-bsd.lightbearer.com/">Joel's apt-gettable archive</a>
-#of packages for FreeBSD and NetBSD
-#</li>
-
-# link dead <li>
-# <a href="ftp://trantor.utsl.org/pub/">A FreeBSD based chroot
-# environment and some packages</a>
-# </li>
-
-# link dead <li>
-#<a href="http://debian-bsd.lightbearer.com/debian-gnu-freebsd.tar.bz2">Another
-#FreeBSD chroot tarball</a> and <a
-#href="http://debian-bsd.lightbearer.com/kernel-ext2.tar.gz">kernel
-#with ext2 support</A>, both built by 
-#<a href="mailto:rmh@debian.org">Robert Millan</a>.
-#</li>
-
-# link dead <li>
-# <a href="http://master.debian.org/~dexter/debian-freebsd/">Debian
-# GNU/FreeBSD packages</a> (very old, based on FreeBSD-3.3 and slink)
-# </li>
-</ul>
-
 <p>
-There is a Debian GNU/*BSD mailing list. Send email to
-<a href="mailto:debian-bsd-request@lists.debian.org?subject=subscribe">\
-debian-bsd-request@lists.debian.org</a> with subscribe as the subject in
-order to join. Archives are available at
+There is a Debian GNU/*BSD mailing list. Most of the historic discussions
+about this port happened there, which are accessible from the web archives at
 <url "https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/" />.
 </p>
 
-<hr />
-<p>
-To contact the Debian GNU/NetBSD team, send email to 
-<email "debian-bsd@lists.debian.org" />.
-Comments, questions, or suggestions regarding our section of Debian's
-website are also welcome at that address.
-</p>
-
 ## Local variables:
 ## sgml-default-doctype-name: "HTML"
 ## End:
diff --git a/english/ports/netbsd/news.wml b/english/ports/netbsd/news.wml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0d28590f319..00000000000
--- a/english/ports/netbsd/news.wml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
-#use wml::debian::template title="Debian GNU/*BSD News" BARETITLE="yes" NOHEADER="yes"
-
-
-<h1>Debian GNU/*BSD News</h1>
-
-<dl class="gloss">
-  <dt class="new">2002-10-06:</dt>
-  <dd>
-      Experimental install floppies are now available for installing
-      a Debian GNU/NetBSD system.
-  </dd>
-  <dt>2002-03-06:</dt>
-  <dd>
-      Matthew hacked <a href="https://packages.debian.org/ifupdown">ifupdown</a>
-      in a workable state.
-  </dd>
-  <dt>2002-02-25:</dt>
-  <dd>
-      Matthew has reported that shadow support and PAM works on NetBSD
-      now.  <a href="https://packages.debian.org/fakeroot">fakeroot</a>
-      seems to work on FreeBSD, but still has issues on NetBSD.
-  </dd>
-  <dt>2002-02-07:</dt>
-  <dd>
-      Nathan has just <a
-      href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2002/debian-bsd-200202/msg00091.html">reported</a>
-      that he got Debian GNU/FreeBSD to boot multiuser.  Also, he's
-      working on a packages-only install (using a hacked debootstrap)
-      featuring a considerably smaller tarball.
-  </dd>
-  <dt>2002-02-06:</dt>
-  <dd>
-      According to Joel gcc-2.95.4 passed most of its test-suite and
-      is packaged.
-  </dd>
-  <dt>2002-02-06:</dt>
-  <dd>X11 works on NetBSD!  Again, kudos to Joel Baker
-  </dd>
-  <dt>2002-02-04:</dt> 
-  <dd>First step towards a Debian/*BSD archive: <br />
-    <a href="mailto:lucifer@lightbearer.com">Joel Baker</a>
-    <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2002/debian-bsd-200202/msg00067.html">
-     announced</a> a <kbd>dupload</kbd>able archive for FreeBSD and
-     NetBSD Debian packages.
-  </dd>
-  <dt>2002-02-03:</dt>
-  <dd>Debian GNU/NetBSD now 
-      <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2002/debian-bsd-200202/msg00043.html">
-        self-hosting</a>!  Note that it still needs a working NetBSD for
-	installation.
-  </dd>
-  <dt>2002-01-30:</dt>
-  <dd>The Debian GNU/*BSD port now has a webpage!</dd>
-</dl>
-
-## Local variables:
-## sgml-default-doctype-name: "HTML"
-## End:
diff --git a/english/ports/netbsd/people.wml b/english/ports/netbsd/people.wml
deleted file mode 100644
index c061336e595..00000000000
--- a/english/ports/netbsd/people.wml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-#use wml::debian::template title="The people behind Debian GNU/*BSD" BARETITLE="yes" NOHEADER="yes"
-
-<h1>Debian GNU/*BSD</h1>
-
-<h2>Contacting the Developers</h2>
-
-#<p>
-#In alphabetical order:
-#</p>
-#<ul>
-#<li>Robert Millan</li> <!-- d00d, FreeBSD-i386, NM -->
-#<li>Joel Baker</li> <!-- NetBSD-i386, NM -->
-#<li>Matthew Garrett</li> <!-- NetBSD hero -->
-#<li>Wartan  Hachaturow</li> <!-- FreeBSD-i386, DD, wart@d.o -->
-#<li>Nathan P. Hawkins</li> <!-- FreeBSD-i386, DD, utsl@d.o -->
-#<li>Jimmy Kaplowitz</li> <!-- NetBSD-i386, DD, jimmy@d.o  -->
-#<li>Andreas Schuldei</li> <!-- OpenBSD-i386, DD,  -->
-#<li>Michael Weber</li><!-- NetBSD-alpha, DD, michaelw@d.o -->
-#</ul>
-
-
-<h3>Mailing Lists</h3>
-<p>
-<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/">debian-bsd</a> is a
-mailing list hosted by Debian for development of the various Debian
-GNU/*BSD ports.  If you have problems with the Debian packages of
-these ports, or if you want to join the development, this is the
-right place to start.
-</p>
-
-
-<h3>IRC</h3>
-<p>
-Channel <tt>#debian-bsd</tt> on <a
-href="https://freenode.net/">FreeNode Network</a> (servers
-<tt>irc.debian.org</tt>, <tt>irc.freenode.net</tt>) is a place
-where you can ask your questions, get more information, meet the
-developers or just hang around and catch useful tips &amp; tricks.
-</p>
-
-
-<h2>Contacting the Web Authors</h2>
-<p>
-If you have troubles with the web server, you should contact Debian's
-<a href="mailto:webmaster@debian.org">Webmaster</a>, but if you have any
-additions or find errors in the content of the *BSD porting pages,
-you should write to one of these people:
-</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li><a href="mailto:utsl@debian.org?subject=Debian%20GNU/*BSD%20webpages">
-	Nathan P. Hawkins</a> (FreeBSD port)</li>
-<li><a href="mailto:jimmy@debian.org?subject=Debian%20GNU/*BSD%20webpages">
-	Jimmy Kaplowitz</a> (<a href=".">NetBSD-i386 port</a>, general)</li>
-<li><a href="mailto:michaelw@debian.org?subject=Debian%20GNU/*BSD%20webpages">
-	Michael Weber</a> (<a href="alpha">NetBSD-Alpha port</a>, general)</li>
-</ul>
-
-## Local variables:
-## sgml-default-doctype-name: "HTML"
-## End:
diff --git a/english/ports/netbsd/why.wml b/english/ports/netbsd/why.wml
deleted file mode 100644
index c57848f4291..00000000000
--- a/english/ports/netbsd/why.wml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-#use wml::debian::template title="Debian GNU/NetBSD -- Why?" BARETITLE="yes" NOHEADER="yes"
-
-<h1>Why Debian GNU/NetBSD?</h1>
-
-<ul>
-<li>NetBSD runs on hardware unsupported by Linux. Porting Debian to
-the NetBSD kernel increases the number of platforms that can run a
-Debian-based operating system.</li>
-
-<li>The Debian GNU/Hurd project demonstrates that Debian is not tied
-to one specific kernel. However, the Hurd kernel is still relatively
-immature - a Debian GNU/NetBSD system would be usable at a production
-level.</li>
-
-<li>Lessons learned from the porting of Debian to NetBSD can be used
-in porting Debian to other kernels (such as those of <a
-href="https://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</a> and <a
-href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>).</li>
-
-<li>In contrast to projects like <a href="http://www.finkproject.org/">Fink</a>
-or <a href="http://debian-cygwin.sf.net/">Debian GNU/w32</a>, Debian
-GNU/NetBSD does not exist in order to provide extra software or a
-Unix-style environment to an existing OS (the *BSD ports trees are
-already comprehensive, and they unarguably provide a Unix-style
-environment). Instead, a user or administrator used to a more
-traditional Debian system should feel comfortable with a Debian
-GNU/NetBSD system immediately and competent in a relatively short
-period of time.</li>
-
-<li>Not everybody likes the *BSD ports tree or the *BSD userland (this
-is a personal preference thing, rather than any sort of comment on
-quality). Linux distributions have been produced which provide *BSD
-style ports or a *BSD style userland for those who like the BSD user
-environment but also wish to use the Linux kernel - Debian GNU/NetBSD
-is the logical reverse of this, allowing people who like the GNU
-userland or a Linux-style packaging system to use the NetBSD
-kernel.</li>
-
-<li>Because we can.</li>
-</ul>
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