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Re: linux

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Seth Mos wrote:


> At 12:15 3-1-2003 -0500, Patrick_Coleman@raytheon.com wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Can you run Linux on an SGI O2 machine?

	No.

> AFAIK, there have been some tries in the past. Graphics is out of the
> question though, serial console is the only option. I also believe only the
> R5K series were a possibility.

	Yeah, last time I looked, there was a partially working Linux for
Indys (R4K/R5K) that ran in serial console.  No graphics.  Might have been
multiuser, maybe not.  Even though I have a working Indy, I stuck with
Irix.

	I also thought I had seen dmesg from where some brave soul had
booted a Linux SMP kernel on a Origin or something with like 32
processors.. no idea if that was a hoax, or what became of it.

	Given the published SGI strategy of Linux on x86 and IRIX on MIPS,
something tells me any Linux on SGI MIPS machines is going to be a total
hack anyway.

#!/jameel/akari
sleep 4800;
make clean && make breakfast