Re: silicon Graphics hardware

2008-09-22 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 21 September 2008 03:23:58 pm Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:48:37PM -0400, Tim Kellers wrote: > > I googled a bit this morning and, except for some old (Freebsd 4.x) > > posts, I didn'r see anything terribly relevant, but does FreeBSD run > > on any Silicon Graphics ha

Re: silicon Graphics hardware

2008-09-21 Thread David Kelly
On Sep 21, 2008, at 2:23 PM, Erik Trulsson wrote: FreeBSD does not (AFAIK) run on any Silicon Graphics machines. During SGI's descent from greatness into obscurity they built Windows NT machines with Intel CPUs before embracing Linux. FreeBSD *should* run on those systems but IMO SGI per

Re: silicon Graphics hardware

2008-09-21 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:48:37PM -0400, Tim Kellers wrote: > I googled a bit this morning and, except for some old (Freebsd 4.x) > posts, I didn'r see anything terribly relevant, but does FreeBSD run on > any Silicon Graphics hardware? I've heard that (maybe) an Ubuntu > distro _might_ run i