Linux Support for SGI MIPS computer

[Andrew Mathews]

Shane A Broomhall wrote:
> HI All,
> 
> I have the possibility of getting my hands on a Second hand but still
> reasonably well performing SGI MIPS computer.  I have had a quick look
> on Google and it seems that there is some support for porting some
> flavors of Linux across to this platform. The pages that I visited
> indicated that support was still a work in progress.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone has had any personal experience at installing
> any flavor of Linux/BSD on these Mips boxes ??
> 
> Thanks and Cheers
> 
> 
> Shane Broomhall
> 
> Brisbane Australia
> 

Shane-
  While I have a few SGI's around, all of different sorts, the Indy is 
the only machine right now that's capable of running X. The Challenge 
series, and the Indigo2 are only capable to use serial consoles. I 
haven't tried Linux on any as IRIX is *quite* capable of doing 
everything. I love both os'es dearly, but would still recommend IRIX on 
SGI/MIPS hardware. See: http://oss.sgi.com/mips/ for more info.

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Andrew Mathews
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