27 Nov
2006
27 Nov
'06
9:34 a.m.
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(a)mac.com
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