Re: [Sheflug] SGI Linux

[Richard Lowe <nospam [at] richlowe.demon.co.uk>]

* Jos? Luis G?mez Dans (j.l.gomez-dans [at] sheffield.ac.uk) wrote:
> 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.
>

http://freeware.sgi.com

> > (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?).
> 
> 	Jos?

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