From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:23:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from phoenix.bawue.net ([193.7.176.60]:57803 "EHLO mail.bawue.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S28643801AbWLUPXZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:23:25 +0000 Received: from lagash (p54A47735.dip.t-dialin.net [84.164.119.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.bawue.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB9BFBBC16; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:14:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from ths by lagash with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GxPdO-0006d5-8T; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:15:02 +0000 Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:15:02 +0000 To: Amarjit Sathi Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Choices choices... Message-ID: <20061221151501.GC30873@networkno.de> References: <458A9A00.2030506@cs.bham.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <458A9A00.2030506@cs.bham.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Thiemo Seufer Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 13507 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ths@networkno.de Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips 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