[geeks] SGI & linux

Caleb Shay caleb at webninja.com
Tue Jul 29 08:11:20 CDT 2003


Rob Fielding wrote:
<snip>

  However they're other legasy is X Windows.
> There's no XFree86 support for their hardware and their X Windows system 
> is undoubtedly as foreboding a challenge as keeping IRIX going. Perhaps 
> further reason for them to stop making custom GFX and adopting 3rd party 
> ones...
<snip>

Actually, you can run Linux w/XFree on an Indy (and apparently I2 now 
also, but I haven't tried that). 
http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/linux-mips/xfree86/


Cheers,

Caleb



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