From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id MAA78214 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 12:10:08 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id MAA94268 for linux-list; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 12:09:01 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from oz.engr.sgi.com (oz.engr.sgi.com [150.166.42.13]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id MAA25264; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 12:08:58 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (ariel@oz.engr.sgi.com) Received: (from ariel@localhost) by oz.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id MAA42738; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 12:08:58 -0700 (PDT) From: ariel@oz.engr.sgi.com (Ariel Faigon) Message-Id: <199806041908.MAA42738@oz.engr.sgi.com> Subject: Re: Linux / freeware To: rlane9@csc.com Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 12:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (SGI/Linux mailing list) In-Reply-To: <4A256619.002A27F8.00@cscmail.csc.com> from "rlane9@csc.com" at Jun 4, 98 05:42:13 pm Reply-To: ariel@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (Ariel Faigon) Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME5a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk : :I'm a SGI at CSC running a network of O2s, O200s and Onyx2s, plus a couple :of Indys and a Challenge S, running 6.2, 6.3, 6.4 on the approriate :hardware, plus 6.5B on one of the Indys. All up about 30 machines, and I :have more or less BOFH level control of them. I've even got a gutless :(R4000SC / 24bit / 32MB) Indy at home that I can explode at will, which :is about to be upgraded from 6.2 -> 6.5B. : : What I was wondering was: is any of the above useful to you for either :the Linux port, or freeware support. I am not an expert C programmer, :but I'm not totally clueless, having ugrad C experience. I'm fairly :advanced at SGI admin and support, and have Linux on PCs at home. I have :fast-ish internet connectivity at work (512kB - which is quick for OZ) :and will have a Linux PC sitting at an ISP shortly. : : I have the full SGI developer kit at work + gcc, with gcc at home, :plus the chunks of IDO required to bootstrap gcc. I can even provide an :Australian WWW mirror if that would be useful. : : I'd be fairly happy to bang my head against a wall trying to get Linux :running on my Indy, and to help with testing IRIX apps under linux. :There seems to be little point porting all the Irix apps to Linux with :the associated licensing probs, when every SGI box comes with the base :OS already. : :------------------------------------------------------------------------- :Richard Lane, System Administrator :CSC Australia - Major Defense Projects - Network Engineering :CSC email: :------------------------------------------------------------------------- : : [CCing the Linux list] Dear Richard, Thanks for the offers. I'm signed on the web pages because I helped put them up however, I'm swamped with "real" work and am no longer put my time into coordinating the SGI/Linux port. My best advice would be: please subscribe to the mailing list install SGI/Linux on your Indy and communicate your experiences and suggestions on the list. There are about 100 subscribers most of them ouside SGI. -- Peace, Ariel From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: ariel@oz.engr.sgi.com (Ariel Faigon) Message-ID: <199806041908.MAA42738@oz.engr.sgi.com> Subject: Re: Linux / freeware Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 12:08:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A256619.002A27F8.00@cscmail.csc.com> from "rlane9@csc.com" at Jun 4, 98 05:42:13 pm Reply-To: ariel@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (Ariel Faigon) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com To: rlane9@csc.com Cc: SGI/Linux mailing list Message-ID: <19980604190857.VkLP-BFMmPw6q8UyApQIFF1hfAEwuzgP992xkD-tj00@z> : :I'm a SGI at CSC running a network of O2s, O200s and Onyx2s, plus a couple :of Indys and a Challenge S, running 6.2, 6.3, 6.4 on the approriate :hardware, plus 6.5B on one of the Indys. All up about 30 machines, and I :have more or less BOFH level control of them. I've even got a gutless :(R4000SC / 24bit / 32MB) Indy at home that I can explode at will, which :is about to be upgraded from 6.2 -> 6.5B. : : What I was wondering was: is any of the above useful to you for either :the Linux port, or freeware support. I am not an expert C programmer, :but I'm not totally clueless, having ugrad C experience. I'm fairly :advanced at SGI admin and support, and have Linux on PCs at home. I have :fast-ish internet connectivity at work (512kB - which is quick for OZ) :and will have a Linux PC sitting at an ISP shortly. : : I have the full SGI developer kit at work + gcc, with gcc at home, :plus the chunks of IDO required to bootstrap gcc. I can even provide an :Australian WWW mirror if that would be useful. : : I'd be fairly happy to bang my head against a wall trying to get Linux :running on my Indy, and to help with testing IRIX apps under linux. :There seems to be little point porting all the Irix apps to Linux with :the associated licensing probs, when every SGI box comes with the base :OS already. : :------------------------------------------------------------------------- :Richard Lane, System Administrator :CSC Australia - Major Defense Projects - Network Engineering :CSC email: :------------------------------------------------------------------------- : : [CCing the Linux list] Dear Richard, Thanks for the offers. I'm signed on the web pages because I helped put them up however, I'm swamped with "real" work and am no longer put my time into coordinating the SGI/Linux port. My best advice would be: please subscribe to the mailing list install SGI/Linux on your Indy and communicate your experiences and suggestions on the list. There are about 100 subscribers most of them ouside SGI. -- Peace, Ariel