Shane A Broomhall wrote: > HI All, > > I have the possibility of getting my hands on a Second hand but still > reasonably well performing SGI MIPS computer. I have had a quick look > on Google and it seems that there is some support for porting some > flavors of Linux across to this platform. The pages that I visited > indicated that support was still a work in progress. > > I was wondering if anyone has had any personal experience at installing > any flavor of Linux/BSD on these Mips boxes ?? > > Thanks and Cheers > > > Shane Broomhall > > Brisbane Australia >
Shane- While I have a few SGI's around, all of different sorts, the Indy is the only machine right now that's capable of running X. The Challenge series, and the Indigo2 are only capable to use serial consoles. I haven't tried Linux on any as IRIX is *quite* capable of doing everything. I love both os'es dearly, but would still recommend IRIX on SGI/MIPS hardware. See: http://oss.sgi.com/mips/ for more info. -- Andrew Mathews --------------------------------------------------------------- 9:39pm up 33 min, 3 users, load average: 0.38, 0.22, 0.17 --------------------------------------------------------------- RedHat Limbo Beta release 2.4.18-4SGI_XFS_1.1 kernel _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
