From: madcrow.maxwell@gmail.com (Michael Kerpan)
Subject: [TUHS] Open Sourcing IRIX?
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:41:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8dd2d95c0611270641v289bf26ag9bbd2b5310b9fc60@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611270332120.2479@riviera>
As I said, IRIX itself is nothing but an obsolete kernel. It might be
cool for preservation purposes to have the code (and that's what TUHS
is all about) but as a practical solution, I'm not really sure. SGI
has already opened up a lot of their best stuff (XFS, OpenGL, Inventor
(a sinfully under-used high level layer on top of OpenGL) The main
thing they haven't opened up is their Desktop. It's really a far
superior Motif-based system than CDE (the look, for example is so
well-modified that it doesn't even have that archaic Motif-y look) and
an open source version of the IRIX desktop layered on top of Linux (or
*BSD) would really go a long way towards producing a usable AND
attractive Unix-like for lower-end systems.
Any idea of the odds of at least the IRIX Desktop being opened up?
On 11/26/06, Paul Duffy <dubhthach at compsoc.nuigalway.ie> wrote:
> Highly unlikely. After all they didn't buy out their Unix license like Sun
> did. IRIX has been basically abandoned by SGI which is a pity. However
> their is quite an IRIX user community at Nekochan with 1500 members on the
> forums: http://forums.nekochan.net/index.php
>
> Nekoware as it called is probably the best repositry of
> freeware/opensource software out their for IRIX these days. Even SGI's own
> freeware site points to them.
>
> -Paul
>
> "There is no greater sorrow then to remember times of happiness when
> miserable" -- Dante "The Inferno"
>
> On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, Lord Doomicus wrote:
>
> > Since SGI is EOL'ing IRIX at the end of the year, has anyone asked them if
> > they would donate it's source ( under some sort of OSI license of course ) to
> > the UNIX archive?
> >
> > Or is there too much SysV code in it?
> >
> > It would be cool to have easy access to the older IRIX versions for older SGI
> > hardware.
> >
> > - Derrik
> >
> > Derrik Walker v2.0, RHCE
> > lorddoomicus at mac.com
> > http://www.doomd.net
> >
> > ... I am using an Apple Macintosh to design the Cray-3 supercomputer. --
> > Seymour Cray, 1986
> >
> >
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-27 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-26 23:13 Lord Doomicus
2006-11-26 23:46 ` Michael Kerpan
2006-11-27 3:34 ` Paul Duffy
2006-11-27 14:41 ` Michael Kerpan [this message]
2006-11-28 7:12 ` Wesley Parish
2006-11-28 13:17 ` Michael Kerpan
2006-11-28 13:41 ` John Cowan
2006-11-29 7:04 ` Wesley Parish
2006-11-29 7:14 ` M. Warner Losh
[not found] ` <8B9D43B4-BCF3-4768-98D3-E2D77248458E@vetsystems.com>
2006-11-28 16:57 ` Michael Kerpan
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