Alan Cox writes:
> > My take on this is that since whoever bought that Indy
> > already paid for the OS including the X server and other
> > binaries there should be no reason why not to allow
> > them to run it on top of linux.
>
> Thats simple until someone builds a clone SGI box. RedHat rpms
> actually have some provision for a tool called rhmask which
> requires you have some "original" to generate the new rpm. Anyway
> we don't want to encourage folks not to make the Linux version
> kick the backside of any SGI original item..
It makes no sense to clone an SGI box, since there is no
long-term standard hardware profile. That is, the combination
of hardware and system software provides a consistent model, but
the hardware/software interface changes each generation, both
in graphics and in I/O. For people building MIPS-based linux boxes,
starting with the XFree86 source base, and adding good OpenGL support,
is a better model than trying to use Xsgi. Using Xsgi (and libGL.so)
is simply an expedient way to get graphics support for linux on an
SGI box.
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