[TUHS] Open Sourcing IRIX?
Paul Duffy
dubhthach at compsoc.nuigalway.ie
Mon Nov 27 13:34:59 AEST 2006
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
>
>
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