[TUHS] Open Sourcing IRIX?

Michael Kerpan madcrow.maxwell at gmail.com
Mon Nov 27 09:46:20 AEST 2006


That would be pretty cool, but frankly the IRIX kernel is unneccsary.
A bettter thing to do would be to contribute the stuff like the IRIX
GUI and the like.

Mike

On 11/26/06, Lord Doomicus <lorddoomicus at mac.com> 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
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