From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dubhthach@compsoc.nuigalway.ie (Paul Duffy) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 03:34:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [TUHS] Open Sourcing IRIX? In-Reply-To: <57FF0370-6EC5-4282-BCB2-06DD34C3C2B1@mac.com> References: <57FF0370-6EC5-4282-BCB2-06DD34C3C2B1@mac.com> Message-ID: 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 > >