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 PAA78239 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 15:47:58 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id PAA63028 for linux-list; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 15:47:10 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from 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 PAA56995 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 15:47:07 -0800 (PST) mail_from (tnik@hol.gr) Received: from mail.hol.gr (mail.hol.gr [194.30.192.21]) by 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 PAA02853 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 15:46:58 -0800 (PST) mail_from (tnik@hol.gr) Received: (qmail 6496 invoked from network); 26 Mar 1999 23:44:25 -0000 Received: from async007.ath03.tlc.hol.gr (HELO hol.gr) (firewall-user@194.30.216.10) by mail.hol.gr with SMTP; 26 Mar 1999 23:44:25 -0000 Message-ID: <36FC3841.71061373@hol.gr> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 03:45:38 +0200 From: Theodoros Nikitopoulos X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.1.24 ppc) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com CC: s92035@math.aegean.gr Subject: Re: Re: Port to R3000 Indigo References: <36FBEFA3.A6ADB8F0@norden1.com> <9903261648250V.04692@vulture> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk tom wrote: > And I know a group at KSC that's getting rid of a bunch of O2s. We'd love to > grab them and make a nice little Beowulf cluster out of them :-). > Unfortunately, we don't have the time at work to do a port :-( > > On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Jeremy Parsons wrote: > ? I think it would be very relevant. My company recently sold around 30 > ? of the R3000 Indigo's. Just about every person who bought one of these > ? was interested in the SGI/Linux project and wanted to know if they would > ? some day be able to run Linux on it. > ? > ? Jeremy Parsons > -- I have a feeling that someone hasn't any chance to port Linux in the O2 or Indigo2 platform unless Sillicon Graphics wants too. In other words, by giving a great deal of information in public for building the appropriate drivers. Am I wrong about it ? By the way, SGI has officialy report to support Linux on visual workstations. Any ideas if they will also transfer the desktop enviroment commonly used in IRIX ? This seems to me very likely, in regards of providing a common user interface both in IRIX based systems and Linux based systems provided by SGI. That could be a great benefeat of the Linux community.. Personally I haven't find any Linux user interface more nicely crafted than SGI's 4DWM. Theodore .