Doug,
Please also feel free to peek in or join my 'home' group, MDLUG (Metro
Detroit Linux Users Group) mdlug@collie.net. SGI in Farmington Hills,
Michigan (suburban Detroit) is also the very kind sponser of our monthly
meeting, and as some of those folks are also list subscribers, I'm sure they
would be pleased to answer some of your IRIX questions (and those guys are
*sharp*, especially Dr. Joe Landman of SGI).
I concur Dow. SGI rates an A++ for opening their XFS journaling file systems
to Open Source. Very, very cool, I can't wait!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dow Hurst" ">dhurst@kennesaw.edu>
To: "DOUG S KENLINE" ">DOUG.KENLINE@prodigy.net>; ">ale@ale.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] sgi indy r5000
> I must reply since I work with IRIX all day every day!
>
> IRIX is SGI's Unix variant ( And a nice one at that!)
>
> You can find alot of file system similarity with SuSE Linux. However,
> RedHat has the chkconfig utility incorporated from IRIX into their
> distribution.
>
> SGI always has cutting edge stuff in hardware and software
> concentrating on graphics, so you will find XFS type journaling file
> systems exploding into Linux this year from their kindness to the Open
> Source movement. Last year was introduction of the graphics on the
> Pentium based SGI workstation line. I have SuSE Linux ReiserFS on my
> laptop which helps on boot up time alot.
>
> Your gonna love the graphics on your Indy if it is the XZ engine. The
> Indy comes with 8bit, 24bit, and 24bit Zbuffered graphics. What you
> want to have is the 24bit Z buffered engine known as XZ graphics.
>
> The Indy's are known for input output options encompassing Sound,
> Video and S-Video, Ethernet RJ45 and AUI, ISDN, SCSI, parallel, and
> serial. If you have IRIX 6.2 on the system then you should check your
> patches for known security holes as the current version of IRIX is
> 6.5.7. If you have connections thru the University System of GA or
> some such educational institution you may be able to get hardware and
> software contracts for a reduced rate. A software contract is more
> important at this point since you may want some of SGIs nice
> software. The compilers, printing software, logical volume plexing,
> software development environment, and software packaging environment
> to name a few, require licenses to function. You can try out the free
> SGI software page at www.sgi.com for lots of free stuff.
>
> Don't leave this list, just add the SGI lists on USENET. The software
> and admin lists are helpful.
>
> You probably should look into APC's Powerchute plus for IRIX for safe
> shutdown on power failure.
>
> Also, Linux on MIPs is there but that's about it. What I've heard is
> that most packages either are broken or not ported. I haven't tried
> it myself. I hope you enjoy your machine!
> Dow
>
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