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 (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id HAA02418; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 07:18:59 -0700 Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id HAA13015 for linux-list; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 07:18:32 -0700 Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id HAA13008 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 07:18:29 -0700 Received: from alles.intern.julia.de (loehnberg1.core.julia.de [194.221.49.2]) by sgi.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/970507) via ESMTP id HAA10451 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 07:17:46 -0700 env-from (ralf@Julia.DE) Received: from kernel.panic.julia.de (kernel.panic.julia.de [194.221.49.153]) by alles.intern.julia.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA24018; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:07:49 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle Received: (from ralf@localhost) by kernel.panic.julia.de (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA28016; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 16:07:36 +0200 Message-Id: <199706201407.QAA28016@kernel.panic.julia.de> Subject: Re: Getting X on Linux/SGI To: todds@ontko.com (Todd Shrider) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 16:07:36 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com In-Reply-To: from "Todd Shrider" at Jun 20, 97 08:42:47 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Hi, > that can hook up to the network, via cable or phone or whatever, browse > the web, ineract with the tv video feeds, receive and send mail (even if > only operating as a pop-client), browse news feeds, maybe even run > someting like Point-Cast as your "TV Screen Saver". > > When I think of systems, runnig chips like the 4300i, that can do things > like this, I think a pared down Linux is a very justified choice to run > them with. I'd rather it than Windows CE! If your still thinking of Linux The Algorithmics P4032 which I recently mentioned I'm also running Linux on has a R4300i. The patches are too dirty and still based on 2.1.14, so they're not in the CVS tree ... I'd love to see one of the MIPS based palmtop class machines to run Linux ... Ralf From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Ralf Baechle Message-ID: <199706201407.QAA28016@kernel.panic.julia.de> Subject: Re: Getting X on Linux/SGI Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 16:07:36 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: from "Todd Shrider" at Jun 20, 97 08:42:47 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com To: Todd Shrider Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Message-ID: <19970620140736.VO3vhIycGkhIrUO6UwIBFytBTmYwvnC3h4gJF_bzsfE@z> Hi, > that can hook up to the network, via cable or phone or whatever, browse > the web, ineract with the tv video feeds, receive and send mail (even if > only operating as a pop-client), browse news feeds, maybe even run > someting like Point-Cast as your "TV Screen Saver". > > When I think of systems, runnig chips like the 4300i, that can do things > like this, I think a pared down Linux is a very justified choice to run > them with. I'd rather it than Windows CE! If your still thinking of Linux The Algorithmics P4032 which I recently mentioned I'm also running Linux on has a R4300i. The patches are too dirty and still based on 2.1.14, so they're not in the CVS tree ... I'd love to see one of the MIPS based palmtop class machines to run Linux ... Ralf