Just down in the dumps and thought I would post. I miss the magic. I remember seeing an Indigo for the first time in the early 90s and then some Onyx/Challenge/Crimson systems. It was such an inspiring product line of software/hardware. I loved the exotic hardware and the case designs. Because those moments had such a strong impact on me at the time, I started on a path that has led me to build a very nice career as a Unix admin/engineer. I still use my fuel, o2, and octane on a daily basis at work. Although now I can really only use them for ssh machines to admin other systems, I still love them. I hope I can continue to use them for a long time.
I was never a really big Sun fan but have always supported them. Their older stuff was cool and they were great machines but just didn't have the polish and usability that IRIX has. Looking at CDE in Solaris makes me a bit sick to my stomach, whereas IRIX still looks good even though it is so old. The Oracle buyout has been a total pain in the ass. It took 4 months for them to ship a simple 2U system. Their support portal is the worst. One comment on the front page of their portal summed it up perfectly "This support site gives feces a bad name!". OpenSolaris is dead.... Oh well...
DEC is gone, HP-UX and AIX from IBM are so boring, I would rather use Win2k8 Server....
I won't touch on OSX server. That should be a post by itself. It could have taken over the entire Unix server/workstation market but Apple Computer dropped the computer from their name and are officially a consumer device company. I can't fault them for their choices, they are swimming in cash. I still use OSX as my main system on a daily basis and it is the best thing out there.
xBSD. Loved them, used to use Free and Net as daily machines back in the day... Sysinstall sucks. It was ok in 1998, but come on....NetBSD has a great installer. Simple, to the point. I even had my mom using FreeBSD on her laptop (window maker as her wm) in the early 2000s.
It seems like the only thing left is Linux....
Go ahead and flame me but Linux sucks in the enterprise. I do give thanks to all of the hard work and contributions so many have made to developing free software. Why does RedHat put games in an enterprise server os? I like to play with Linux but hate supporting it. I stopped using it as a desktop because it is just too much of a pain in the ass. SuSE and Ubuntu are no better.
I just miss the magic. I miss salivating over marketing material from SGI. I miss Dreaming of having a fridge sized Onyx next to my desk and a couple of brand new 21" Sony granite monitors with that logo "Silicon <cube> Graphics" at the bottom. Xsgi and 4Dwm were great, I didn't think X sucked using IRIX back in the day. I watched code rush again and it put me in this mood. SGI systems all over the place, Netscape as the browser, the internet blowing up. I miss that time period.
I have a dual socket quad core xeon/skull trail system with two video cards, 16GB of ram, chocked full of 1TB hdds, 2 24" flat panel displays in an ugly expensive (although cheaply made) and it is running windows 7. How boring is that? Will computers ever inspire me like they did when SGI was king? Will computers every be fun again?
I was never a really big Sun fan but have always supported them. Their older stuff was cool and they were great machines but just didn't have the polish and usability that IRIX has. Looking at CDE in Solaris makes me a bit sick to my stomach, whereas IRIX still looks good even though it is so old. The Oracle buyout has been a total pain in the ass. It took 4 months for them to ship a simple 2U system. Their support portal is the worst. One comment on the front page of their portal summed it up perfectly "This support site gives feces a bad name!". OpenSolaris is dead.... Oh well...
DEC is gone, HP-UX and AIX from IBM are so boring, I would rather use Win2k8 Server....
I won't touch on OSX server. That should be a post by itself. It could have taken over the entire Unix server/workstation market but Apple Computer dropped the computer from their name and are officially a consumer device company. I can't fault them for their choices, they are swimming in cash. I still use OSX as my main system on a daily basis and it is the best thing out there.
xBSD. Loved them, used to use Free and Net as daily machines back in the day... Sysinstall sucks. It was ok in 1998, but come on....NetBSD has a great installer. Simple, to the point. I even had my mom using FreeBSD on her laptop (window maker as her wm) in the early 2000s.
It seems like the only thing left is Linux....
Go ahead and flame me but Linux sucks in the enterprise. I do give thanks to all of the hard work and contributions so many have made to developing free software. Why does RedHat put games in an enterprise server os? I like to play with Linux but hate supporting it. I stopped using it as a desktop because it is just too much of a pain in the ass. SuSE and Ubuntu are no better.
I just miss the magic. I miss salivating over marketing material from SGI. I miss Dreaming of having a fridge sized Onyx next to my desk and a couple of brand new 21" Sony granite monitors with that logo "Silicon <cube> Graphics" at the bottom. Xsgi and 4Dwm were great, I didn't think X sucked using IRIX back in the day. I watched code rush again and it put me in this mood. SGI systems all over the place, Netscape as the browser, the internet blowing up. I miss that time period.
I have a dual socket quad core xeon/skull trail system with two video cards, 16GB of ram, chocked full of 1TB hdds, 2 24" flat panel displays in an ugly expensive (although cheaply made) and it is running windows 7. How boring is that? Will computers ever inspire me like they did when SGI was king? Will computers every be fun again?
![Tezro :Tezro:](../../../static/e851bf57-1b1c-4265-bca4-a7d1f81bfa24.png)
![Onyx2 Deskside :Onyx2:](../../../static/c5e5e540-9978-4881-a2c7-03a0966847e5.png)
![Indigo :Indigo:](../../../static/87e9763c-ce73-4d26-938a-4a2b4fe7fce2.png)
![Indigo :Indigo:](../../../static/87e9763c-ce73-4d26-938a-4a2b4fe7fce2.png)
![Indigo :Indigo:](../../../static/87e9763c-ce73-4d26-938a-4a2b4fe7fce2.png)
![Indigo :Indigo:](../../../static/87e9763c-ce73-4d26-938a-4a2b4fe7fce2.png)
![Indigo :Indigo:](../../../static/87e9763c-ce73-4d26-938a-4a2b4fe7fce2.png)
![Indigo :Indigo:](../../../static/87e9763c-ce73-4d26-938a-4a2b4fe7fce2.png)
![Indy :Indy:](../../../static/551ec4c8-0cfa-4405-b16f-a385b1e1dd27.png)
![Indy :Indy:](../../../static/551ec4c8-0cfa-4405-b16f-a385b1e1dd27.png)
![Indy :Indy:](../../../static/551ec4c8-0cfa-4405-b16f-a385b1e1dd27.png)
![Indy :Indy:](../../../static/551ec4c8-0cfa-4405-b16f-a385b1e1dd27.png)
![Indy :Indy:](../../../static/551ec4c8-0cfa-4405-b16f-a385b1e1dd27.png)
![Indy :Indy:](../../../static/551ec4c8-0cfa-4405-b16f-a385b1e1dd27.png)
![O2 :O2:](../../../static/0c7871d0-9389-4bed-bc98-92880c14a0cd.png)
![O2 :O2:](../../../static/0c7871d0-9389-4bed-bc98-92880c14a0cd.png)
![O2 :O2:](../../../static/0c7871d0-9389-4bed-bc98-92880c14a0cd.png)
![O2 :O2:](../../../static/0c7871d0-9389-4bed-bc98-92880c14a0cd.png)
![O2 :O2:](../../../static/0c7871d0-9389-4bed-bc98-92880c14a0cd.png)
![1600SW :1600SW:](../../../static/f89a8efe-c6ac-4e69-b28c-354d24cc1158.png)
![1600SW :1600SW:](../../../static/f89a8efe-c6ac-4e69-b28c-354d24cc1158.png)
![320 :320:](../../../static/d8d24f43-48f2-486a-ae07-60e2f07104e0.png)
![Indigo2 IMPACT :Indigo2IMP:](../../../static/94bfa481-1942-4968-b9bc-067f70ce3c87.png)
![Indigo2 :Indigo2:](../../../static/b2625cae-9138-424e-9bde-7a4b7dee195b.png)
![Octane2 :Octane2:](../../../static/b00b732f-70b9-4b44-a792-92283f38dbe7.png)
![Octane2 :Octane2:](../../../static/b00b732f-70b9-4b44-a792-92283f38dbe7.png)
![Octane :Octane:](../../../static/20ac3a2d-b815-459f-9321-778d81f71231.png)
![Fuel :Fuel:](../../../static/c6dc14a0-0275-427f-a2d0-06fc7b277427.png)
![Fuel :Fuel:](../../../static/c6dc14a0-0275-427f-a2d0-06fc7b277427.png)
Stolen!
![4D310 :4D310:](../../../static/ca47d801-7171-4a6c-941b-d88c5c284ebe.png)
![Crimson :Crimson:](../../../static/9de4e2a4-de36-48fc-a247-f670bbc1c527.png)