On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 06:11:33PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] thought:
>
> Hi,
>
> > Silly PC hardware **grumblegrumble**
>
> Personally, I want an SGI box. I support them at work and they are way
> cool. The only problem is they run this fsck'ng propreitary Irix OS that
> has more security holes out of the box than swiss cheese. Even upgrading
> to 6.5.10 (released all of last month) misses at least one vulnerability.
> Grrr... Still, SGI actually knows how to do a real GUI :)
I thought SGI had adopted Linux for their low end market or am I reading
really old Linux Magazines?
> It's really a pity Linux MIPS never went farther than it did. I'd love to
> see Linux running on an O2, or better yet, an Octane.
Can you not just lash on one of the current distros or is Linux MIPS the
appropriate distro/kernel to use for SGI (said he showing his ignorance)?
>
> Later,
> Caity
>
--
Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Domestic Sysadmin :-)
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