| To: | Amarjit Sathi <A.Sathi@cs.bham.ac.uk> |
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| Subject: | Re: Choices choices... |
| From: | Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de> |
| Date: | Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:15:02 +0000 |
| Cc: | linux-mips@linux-mips.org |
| In-reply-to: | <458A9A00.2030506@cs.bham.ac.uk> |
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Amarjit Sathi wrote: > I have been given an SGI Onyx2 rackmount system with 16 MIPS RS10000 > processors. The graphics engine is not supported, the rest of the system is basically an Origin 2000, which is semi-supported. > I want to put linux on it and I was wondering if anyone had > experience of linux on this system or would recommend a flavour of linux > for it. The usual suspects for this are Gentoo Linux and Debian Linux. AFAIK Gentoo has a live CD with precompiled Kernel, for Debian you have to patch and build your own Kernel for now. > I have a collection of RedHat servers at the moment so something that > would allow me to integrate them would be good. I don't know of a .rpm based Distribution which would support SGI Origin. Thiemo |
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