tom wrote:
> And I know a group at KSC that's getting rid of a bunch of O2s. We'd love to
> grab them and make a nice little Beowulf cluster out of them :-).
> Unfortunately, we don't have the time at work to do a port :-(
>
> On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Jeremy Parsons wrote:
> ? I think it would be very relevant. My company recently sold around 30
> ? of the R3000 Indigo's. Just about every person who bought one of these
> ? was interested in the SGI/Linux project and wanted to know if they would
> ? some day be able to run Linux on it.
> ?
> ? Jeremy Parsons
> --
I have a feeling that someone hasn't any chance to port Linux in the O2 or
Indigo2 platform unless Sillicon Graphics wants too. In other words, by
giving a great deal of information in public for building the appropriate
drivers. Am I wrong about it ?
By the way, SGI has officialy report to support Linux on visual
workstations. Any ideas if they will also transfer the desktop enviroment
commonly used in IRIX ? This seems to me very likely, in regards of
providing a common user interface both in IRIX based systems and Linux
based systems provided by SGI. That could be a great benefeat of the Linux
community..
Personally I haven't find any Linux user interface more nicely crafted
than SGI's 4DWM.
Theodore .
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