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Re: [Sheflug] SGI Linux
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 08:08:18PM +0000, James Bruce wrote:
> (1) if i switch to linux, can i still use my indycam?! its cool....
You might or you might not. I don't know what an indycam is :-)
> (2) do i get a gui , preferably KDE?
You can get the GUI/Desktop b*ll*cks by getting GNOME or KDE for
Irix, either from tarball+compile+... or by getting the pre-compiled
binaries (if these exist). I would have thought that Ximian would have
ximian gnome available, but you can always ./configure make and all the
rest of it (might take over 5 days to compile it, but :-D)
> (3) how fast is it likely to be? ie will linux run slower than irix?
Depends on what you use it for. But I presume that the X server
bundled with IRIX is probably optimised for the gfx card it carries.
Also, SGI's compiler is bound to be "better" than gcc-MIPS.
> (4) does anyone actually have any experience of getting linux on one
> these things? if it was a case of "shove cd in, KDE comes up in half
> hour.." then id be fine, but it seems as though you have to configure
> it so much and get xfree working etc, i just dont know how to do it.
> is there a bootable iso image i can download?! oh , why doesnt suse do
> mips machines. dammit.
Why don't you just stick with IRIX then? You can probably get
gcc and all the gnu bits and bobs installed, and then compile all your
favourite linux software. You have the source use it. I do use gcc on
the university's Sun cluster. Remember that most UN*X software is
thought to be portable.
> (5) if i cant switch it over to linux, what can i do with it? i could
> use it to make little movies and save them to a network drive if i
> could figure out how :) or possibly burn cds? no idea.
3D rendering is a good idea. POVRay is fairly easy to use (or
blender). I do have a number of datasets you could visualise for me and
produce output as en EPS :-)))
Think again, that whatever you can do with Linux you're bound to
be able do do with IRIX. It means re-compilng or trawling the net to
find the binaries and stuff (yeah, we're lazy, so what?).
José
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