From: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
To: Amarjit Sathi <A.Sathi@cs.bham.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Choices choices...
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:15:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061221151501.GC30873@networkno.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <458A9A00.2030506@cs.bham.ac.uk>
Amarjit Sathi wrote:
> I have been given an SGI Onyx2 rackmount system with 16 MIPS RS10000
> processors.
The graphics engine is not supported, the rest of the system is basically
an Origin 2000, which is semi-supported.
> I want to put linux on it and I was wondering if anyone had
> experience of linux on this system or would recommend a flavour of linux
> for it.
The usual suspects for this are Gentoo Linux and Debian Linux.
AFAIK Gentoo has a live CD with precompiled Kernel, for Debian
you have to patch and build your own Kernel for now.
> I have a collection of RedHat servers at the moment so something that
> would allow me to integrate them would be good.
I don't know of a .rpm based Distribution which would support SGI Origin.
Thiemo
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2006-12-21 14:28 Choices choices Amarjit Sathi
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