(computers & tech) FREE SGI Indy and O2 (North of Boston) (fwd)

miah jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com
Thu Sep 9 18:20:01 EDT 2004


Use the admin toolbox for just about any administration task.  I'm
sure there are ways to do things without their gui admin tools, but I
found it easiest to just use them.

The IRIX manpages are rather informative too.. Sorry to hear you can't
use GCC, I've been told by friends that IRIX's CC is superior, but I
don't really believe it =)

Good luck.

-miah

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 06:08:01PM -0400, Josh Pollak wrote:
> 
> On Sep 9, 2004, at 6:00 PM, miah wrote:
> >
> >Anyways, IRIX is a pain, I wouldn't run it unless I had a specific
> >application that required it (which was the case at that job).  And I
> >do personally own a Indigo2, and to prove how useful it is, it sits in
> >the basement of my workspace gathering dust.
> >
> 
> You guys laugh, but we've got a contract here that requires us to port 
> our Linux code to Irix, and the only box we've got is a pokey old O2. 
> Compound on to that the fact that we can't use GCC, we need to use 
> SGI's CC, and it keeps complaining about the license manager being 
> down. Oh yeah, and none of us know crap about adminning SGI's beyond 
> the basic Unix commands. Ugh.
> 
> I tried to convince the management we should be a newer, used SGI, but 
> I think they are too lazy too look for one. And we wouldn't know how to 
> admin it.
> 
> -Josh
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