From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: madcrow.maxwell@gmail.com (Michael Kerpan) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:41:37 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Open Sourcing IRIX? In-Reply-To: References: <57FF0370-6EC5-4282-BCB2-06DD34C3C2B1@mac.com> Message-ID: <8dd2d95c0611270641v289bf26ag9bbd2b5310b9fc60@mail.gmail.com> 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 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs >