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 EAA08354 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 04:22:02 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id EAA06323 for linux-list; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 04:21:21 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id EAA00916 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 04:21:19 -0800 (PST) mail_from (torbjorn.gannholm@fra.se) Received: from x.fra.se (x.fra.se [193.12.220.1]) by sgi.sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via SMTP id EAA05208 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 04:21:16 -0800 (PST) mail_from (torbjorn.gannholm@fra.se) Received: from fra.se by x.fra.se via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/940406.SGI.AUTO) for id NAA07922; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 13:27:53 +0100 Message-ID: <365AA647.62A5565D@fra.se> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 13:27:53 +0100 From: "Torbjörn Gannholm" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; IRIX 5.3 IP12) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com" Subject: help offered Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk First my apologies for asking questions you all know the answer to: What kind of SGI-machines does Linux currently work on? In what areas does IRIX6.5 have a significant edge over Linux performancewise? We really want to put Linux on _everything_ we've got, from PI's to O2000 (we might also keep a PowerSeries380 for fun), as well as on suns and pcs. It would make everything a lot simpler to administrate, plus if we're not happy we can try to hack something. If necessary for performance, we can keep IRIX on the numbercrunchers, and, if that's not a performance problem, use gcc/egcs and glibc. Same questions for these contra Irix Development Kit as above. I have my employer's blessing to put time into porting and/or development of Linux/gcc/glibc for SGI-machines if someone just points me in the right direction. I have solid programming experience, I have dabbled a bit in sysadmin and am a quick learner (I have at times written useful code in unknown languages from examples), but haven't been this deep in before. -- /Torbjörn This message is a personal message from Torbjörn Gannholm and does not necessarily represent the opinion of my employer.