Miscellaneous Operating Systems/Hardware

I installed it on my Devuan build on my MacPro 3,1. Really weird, everytime I try to launch anything in the /opt/MaXX/bin32 directory, it says "file not found". Maybe it has been a long day of BS at work and my brain isn't working....

I played with it, found 5DWM was too unstable, but using MWM with all of the apps gave a pretty pleasant experience. I'd be interested to know what's missing from IRIX compared to a MaXX setup.

foetz wrote: ldd problematic_file

Any executable in the bin32 folder return
"not a dynamic executable"

For example, ldd -v 5Dwm

DMJC wrote: I played with it, found 5DWM was too unstable, but using MWM with all of the apps gave a pretty pleasant experience. I'd be interested to know what's missing from IRIX compared to a MaXX setup.

How did you get it to run?
I tried Debian and Fedora, no go. =(

opcode wrote: I installed it on my Devuan build on my MacPro 3,1. Really weird, everytime I try to launch anything in the /opt/MaXX/bin32 directory, it says "file not found". Maybe it has been a long day of BS at work and my brain isn't working....

See my reply five messages above...

Where do you get it? The project website points to a Sourceforge page with no files available for "Downloads."

ianj wrote: Where do you get it? The project website points to a Sourceforge page with no files available for "Downloads."

http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=16729754&start=120#p7393697

Ahh Thanks Vishnu Wasn't MaXXX working on a new build? Did he give those files out for testing?

opcode wrote: Ahh Thanks Vishnu Wasn't MaXXX working on a new build? Did he give those files out for testing?

Indeed he did say he was working on a new build, and then he promptly disappeared. Again...

Slightly off-topic: What steps would you need to go through (specifically with SGI's intellectual property) to clone the IRIX Interactive Desktop? And if it were cloned, which toolkit would you want to see it using? Would you want an exact copy or a themeable environment (default theme would be an exact copy) that would allow for a more modern look?

segfault wrote: Slightly off-topic: What steps would you need to go through (specifically with SGI's intellectual property) to clone the IRIX Interactive Desktop? And if it were cloned, which toolkit would you want to see it using? Would you want an exact copy or a themeable environment (default theme would be an exact copy) that would allow for a more modern look?

Now it is HP's intellectual property... which won't make things easier I fear.

vishnu wrote:

opcode wrote: Ahh Thanks Vishnu Wasn't MaXXX working on a new build? Did he give those files out for testing?

Indeed he did say he was working on a new build, and then he promptly disappeared. Again...

I saw a post out of MaXX Interactive Desktop on Facebook recently - so assuming that he's running that page it isn't 100% dead after all.

armanox wrote:

vishnu wrote:

opcode wrote: Ahh Thanks Vishnu Wasn't MaXXX working on a new build? Did he give those files out for testing?

Indeed he did say he was working on a new build, and then he promptly disappeared. Again...

I saw a post out of MaXX Interactive Desktop on Facebook recently - so assuming that he's running that page it isn't 100% dead after all.

Huh! Well you could knock me over with a compression connector...

he's baaaaaack!

Sorry for the lack of updates. My health has been up and down for quite a while, but I think we've figured it out

Updates:
1) HP acquired SGI... I've reopened the discussion and waiting for a reply
2) I retain the rights for MaXX and binaries/installers must come from maxxinteractive.com as of now.
3) Working on new code and looking for c,c++ and Java developers
4) Fedora 25 and Debian8/Ubuntu 16.04 are the supported releases
5) New links (see below)
6) Incremental releases will be the way to go.
7) New release dubbed Onyx is on the work
Writing technical documents to facilitate the involvement of contributors

Here are the main links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maxxdesktop/
main site : http://www.maxxinteractive.com

-Eric

maxxi.desktop wrote: he's baaaaaack!

Sorry for the lack of updates. My health has been up and down for quite a while, but I think we've figured it out

Updates:
1) HP acquired SGI... I've reopened the discussion and waiting for a reply
2) I retain the rights for MaXX and binaries/installers must come from maxxinteractive.com as of now.
3) Working on new code and looking for c,c++ and Java developers
4) Fedora 25 and Debian8/Ubuntu 16.04 are the supported releases
5) New links (see below)
6) Incremental releases will be the way to go.
7) New release dubbed Onyx is on the work
Writing technical documents to facilitate the involvement of contributors

Here are the main links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maxxdesktop/
main site : http://www.maxxinteractive.com

-Eric

Awesomeness - let us know what exactly you are looking for. I for one am more then happy to help with testing, and I have some experience with C, C++, and Java (most of my experience is in C/C++), but I am sure that plenty of others would be willing to step up to help with development too. Just think - getting some helpers might really kick this thing into gear!

maxxi.desktop wrote: he's baaaaaack!

Sorry for the lack of updates. My health has been up and down for quite a while, but I think we've figured it out

Updates:
1) HP acquired SGI... I've reopened the discussion and waiting for a reply
2) I retain the rights for MaXX and binaries/installers must come from maxxinteractive.com as of now.
3) Working on new code and looking for c,c++ and Java developers
4) Fedora 24 and Debian8/Ubuntu 16.04 are the supported releases
5) New links (see below)
6) Incremental releases will be the way to go.
7) New release dubbed Onyx is on the work
Writing technical documents to facilitate the involvement of contributors

Here are the main links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maxxdesktop/
main site : http://www.maxxinteractive.com

-Eric

Correction: Fedora 24 is the version. Too many uncertainties for ABI compatibility, the intro of Wayland as default Windowing System and Python 3.6 (for anything Blender)

maxxi.desktop wrote:

maxxi.desktop wrote: he's baaaaaack!

Sorry for the lack of updates. My health has been up and down for quite a while, but I think we've figured it out

Updates:
1) HP acquired SGI... I've reopened the discussion and waiting for a reply
2) I retain the rights for MaXX and binaries/installers must come from maxxinteractive.com as of now.
3) Working on new code and looking for c,c++ and Java developers
4) Fedora 24 and Debian8/Ubuntu 16.04 are the supported releases
5) New links (see below)
6) Incremental releases will be the way to go.
7) New release dubbed Onyx is on the work
Writing technical documents to facilitate the involvement of contributors

Here are the main links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maxxdesktop/
main site : http://www.maxxinteractive.com

-Eric

Correction: Fedora 24 is the version. Too many uncertainties for ABI compatibility, the intro of Wayland as default Windowing System and Python 3.6 (for anything Blender)

I wouldn't worry too much about Fedora 25 until it is closer to release. Fedora will have to include X.org still because Wayland + nvidia proprietary drivers currently does not work, and other desktops (XFCE, LxQT, plus the basic Window Managers like FVWM and Window Maker) do not support Wayland at this time (and I doubt that FVWM or Window Maker ever will). There again, the Fedora team has a history of just breaking things and not really caring, plus they have been trying to shove Wayland down our throats for what, six years now? Too many things at this time do not support Wayland for that to be the only option (plus they would break compatibility with other developers, like the TDE team, Mplayer, CDE, etc).

I think we all will be happy to have it working with Ubuntu 16.04 and Fedora 24 though

Eric, I have a couple decades experience with C, C++ and Motif and would be happy to help. Presumably you have the source code to Viewkit as well? Are you using, or did SGI use RapidApp/BXPro for their development? I have BXPro 5-something on my Linux box and on my SGIs, and RapidApp on my SGIs...

vishnu wrote: Eric, I have a couple decades experience with C, C++ and Motif and would be happy to help. Presumably you have the source code to Viewkit as well? Are you using, or did SGI use RapidApp/BXPro for their development? I have BXPro 5-something on my Linux box and on my SGIs, and RapidApp on my SGIs...

That would be awesome! ViewKit is sadly one of those great technology that felt into a black hole when SGI went chap-13 and loose interest in its desktop technologies I only have binaries from a BXPro version... I am using ViewKlass for MaXX and it does pretty much anything I need it to do. I could tell you more offline

Please send me your contact details via pm

cheers

maxxi.desktop wrote: That would be awesome! ViewKit is sadly one of those great technology that felt into a black hole when SGI went chap-13 and loose interest in its desktop technologies I only have binaries from a BXPro version... I am using ViewKlass for MaXX and it does pretty much anything I need it to do. I could tell you more offline

Please send me your contact details via pm

cheers

ICS has the Viewkit source code, presumably they could still be lobbied into selling a binary that would work with one of the MaXX Desktop target distributions, here's a link to their rather bare-bones Viewkit page:

http://motif.ics.com/products/viewkit

The binary I got from them 15 years ago no longer works with any recent Linux. I've never used Viewklass but if you're happy with it I'm sure it's fine.

Regardless of any of that, PM sent!