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This is why someone needs to build a ports like system for IRIX. There is pkgsrc but it seems most of the packages don't build. Very disappointing as I find tardists a pain in the arse to deal with. Sadly with a dying toolchain and frozen development it seems we are slipping into BeOS territory, where they too lack an updated toolchain due to ABI changes after GCC 2.95

Interesting. How much did you buy your ANS for?

Bad news fellas - 11 CURRENT release notes for FreeBSD indicate they're dropping the IA-64 port.

I have a local source for Altix 350s though and have asked the NetBSD project to add me to their Hardware available page.

Just an update that -fs or none there is no difference. I'm guessing that with the 300MHz CPU in there that may be the bottleneck? Video plays fine when converted to Xvid on my server. I'll do some more digging

I'll probably just have to wait till the Raspberry Pi APIs up and running again I'll use that and my XBOX Classic for playback.

You could also check out MorphOS, look at MorphOS.de and see if you device is supported. It has a free evaluation version for download, the only reason I never used it was because I don't like that it is 32-bit only and only runs on secondhand hardware.

FireWire is a yes.
USB is iffy, depends on the computer, the HDD/enclosure ( Disk drives won't work period ) and whether Walpurgis Night witches are around or killed by Homura.

Cinenate35: from what I know most of the people that made SGI any good are gone. The company is essentially Rackable wearing SGI's corpse

I've a working V6 for sale in the FS forums if you're interested.

Re sluggishness its probably not the WM, but Systemd. The overhead it adds will slow down your computer. I'd suggest rolling back to Wheezy or else migrating to another distro. There is no reason that a clean OS install/upgrade should be any slower, especially with LXDE.

Re desktop environment, CDE is always an option, and with some tuning you can make it look/operate like 4DWM. Also, Enlightenment is another I've used, very appealing but also lightweight.

It won't, you're going to break the distro trying to remove it... You can always move to another distro, but I'm sure thats not something you're wanting to do. Gentoo and Slackware currently do not utilise systemd, but thats probably not gonna change. Take it from me - I left GNU/Linux for BSD, not only for systemd, but for other reasons.

I have FreeBSD and NetBSD as desktops and they work just fine. Since hamei is throwing out Windows as a suggestion, as a BSD fan, I'll throw out mine. NetBSD for the Raspberry Pi and your laptop. It should work out nicely, you'll need to configure the system by hand, but I doubt that will be an issue for you.

I was gonna say Classic, since you do TenFourFoz and Classilla, this is a cakewalk by comparison. Unless you want to try porting Firefox 4 and up to IRIX :p

hamei, don't lump BSD in with BeOS or Loonix please. Netflix, Juniper and Sony all use BSD, and without BSD, GNU/Linux wouldn't have had a network stack.

I'm messing with you man.

How do you anticipate it matches up with an x64 chip for the same application?

Was it because they wanted a fresh start, or did they think that they'd never be able to port IRIX for whatever reason, or did they just think it wouldn't be competitive.

So in a nutshell it has specialised instructions and a core for database usage, and if these can be utilised, it will do better at the limited market of running OracleDB software? I know that's a gross oversimplification but I'm not an electrical engineer so I can't say I really am well acquainted with the industry terminology.

Printing isn't a big deal, who prints from IRIX anyways? I'm a thinking a Tardist is in order. Kanpai!

At this point I just hate to see the source of IRIX remain unreleased and bitrotting in Rackable's hands. IRIX under BSD or CDDL would be awesome.

Maxxdesktop/5DWM is useless for non GNU/Linux users. I for one don't want an awesome interface over a CLI that is anti user by design and pisses all over what makes UNIX great

Beyond that I'd really like to have their X11R6 implementation opened if nothing else. There are still some shortcomings of X.Org, which could be supported by the code of XSGI.

Kumba wrote: CLI that is anti-user by design? Do you mean bash?

All inclusive of the GNU commandline tools included with a GNU/Linux distro. Examples:

Sed: BSD and Solaris sed don't have issues with syntax, which makes commands portable between them. However I ALWAYS have to make adjustments to the -i syntax when testing on GNU/Linux.

Bash: Slow and adds useless features to a shell ( pdksh and zsh user here )

Awk: GNU Awk, again incompatible with BSD awk and nawk, meaning I have to add checks for each, or else pollute the other systems with GPL code.

GCC/binutils: Memory hogging, slow to compile, breaks binaries run as -O3 ( Clang doesn't )

Understand Kumba I'm not against individual developers of GNU/Linux, but all my research points to real innovation coming from BSD, and only questionable enhancement from the GNU/Linux side that takes several attempts to get a half-working solution. Examples:

Device handling: Devfs did need replacement, but HAL made the situation worse with its constant polling and dirty hacks. Udev fixed the problem mostly, but now that's tangled into Systemd. Before you say eudev, I used Arch prior to moving to BSD, and by far it was the best GNU/Linux experience to date. I used eudev, sysvinit and netcfg for device, init and network over systemd for all three. However this broke half of the packages for Arch, made the Arch build system break, and D-bus constantly misbehaved. Point is, I'd love to use a solution that WORKS and doesn't involve me going into Gentoo level of difficulty ( BSD is far easier than Gentoo to setup, even with 'shortcuts' ) On BSD, they now have devd, which can use HAL, but isn't made to, and choosing to not use something like HAL won't break half your packages/ports.

Init system: Sysvinit, if configured BSD-style, didn't have any serious problems other than the method of action, Runit and OpenRC works, but Systemd doesn't! Why the hell does my server need D-BUS if its just a frigging webserver??? Literally on OpenBSD I can fire up NGINX within minutes as it is in base, add my files after some config, good to go!

D-bus: I'm gonna get flak here, I know, but I don't see the point. Sockets by themselves work fine for IPC, and while adding a common way for processes to communicate is cool, why not just implement message passing as DragonFly BSD is doing? AmigaOS proves the message passing model works.

In any case, I have no problem using MIT/BSD licenced kit from the GNU project or any of the GNU/Linux distros, as all of it I have come along is innovative, good material. The same can't be said for GPL stuff, its more like, there's nothing better to use, if you have to use it. Nobody uses it because they want to. Nobody on the OpenBSD project builds code for VAX, Alpha or another dead architecture on GCC because it's good, it's because there's no real option!

In regards to how GCC mangles code under -O3, all I know is, when I'm running code through -O3 to ensure I've not overlooked any bugs at that level of optimisation, the same program run under clang doesn't fall apart when run at that high level of optimisation, but GCC does, quite frequently. I don't care to learn enough x86 asm on my server to understand the code, all I care is: Does it break?

Let me say this though: the GPL's viral nature as a licence that anything it touches must be GPL too is the single most aggravating thing about it. I have less of a problem, significantly less, with the LGPL and CDDL. What pisses me off further is that some people take pride in that and say it's in the name of freedom. By that statement, they're no better than the police officers who abuse people in there custody and say it's in the name of freedom. If the GPL backed off that then I'd just licence my contributions under the ISC licence and build a patch against the original program.

Has Classic given up on Classilla? Or is TenFourFox just taking up all of your time?

tcsh is good, but why not zsh? All the features of bash plus ksh plus some.

If I had the space, an Onyx2 or Tezro. I have a friend with both and they're fast as hell. But, very loud and power intensive.

If I had had a better Fuel I would go for Fuel, but I have to say my Octane2 is plenty fast. Just heavy as fuck. It is reliable and well built though.

I know an ex-SGI employee with an "IRIX is forever!" button. Also he has some business cards from his days in the company and, up until a year or two ago, he had an Octane2 maxed out. I shudder to think what he did with it.

Good work Cameron. I'm sure the Apple community appreciates the hard work.

If you end up with any Octane2 skin and chassis I am in the market.

I am selling my Raspberry Pi due to dissatisfaction with support under FreeBSD and NetBSD

Here's what you get:
Raspberry Pi 256MB Model B
Short Crust Case - very nice case for the board.
32GB SD Card, will be loaded with Raspbian or wiped. Like new, only used for trialing the BSDs on it.
DVI-HDMI cord for monitor connection
PSU

Pics: http://imgur.com/YdL02Zg,nlvXqKz,hxaKmnY

Price: $25 including shipping in the US

Found some more stuff in my parts bin I will include for free. Good deal considering the value of most of this.

I would fix this on my BSD boxes by setting the immutable flag, but try this:

Set the resolved.conf the way you want then chmod the file 444 and see if that prevents it being written to.

I am in the market for these for my Octane2. I am located in the US, east coast. PM me if you have these.

Beer: Lambics, Japanese Rice Lagers
Wine: Sparkling wines, Moscato, Marietta Old Vine Red (Blend), Riesling
Sake: Nigori
Sprits: Baijiu, Soju, Vodka, Shochu, Canadian Whisky, blended scotch

Still available

I've interest in looking at the source code to the Ultrix WM and possibly attempting to build and run it. I have confirmed it was at one point released under a BSD-ish license, so legally there should be no strings. Google failed to find it after the first ten or so pages of results, so I'm pretty stumped.

Well, thanks SMJ for a link to the source so I could take a crack at building. Unfortunately it didn't work, not that I expected a miracle or anything. Oh well.

It was more of just curiousity than anything else, and looking at the code gave me an idea of how those old WMs work. Just wish I could find a non-GPL WM I like

Voodoo 2 SLi are still pretty nice for classic gaming, they do really well for their age. Not that I'd play Doom 3 or anything on them!

All I'd be after would be a patch for uwm to compile on FreeBSD - I know C but not enough to dabble in a 20+ year old makefile and source code and make changes.