[SunRescue] OT: FS: SGI Crimson RE

[rescue at sunhelp.org]

Hooray!! I second that. Let's just say, on a basic level, Linux vs. IRIX, there is no comparison. Sure, Linux is a nice OS, pretty stable, blah blah (insert good things about Linux here), but compared to IRIX, its pretty much childs play, like IRIX reliability, scabaility, XFS, 64-bit, ccNUMA, etc.. 

After that, lets compare Linux to IRIX on an SGI machine, like my Indigo2 IMPACT. Absolutely no comparison whatsoever. Who in their right mind would want console only, when I am sitting here doing work in IFX Piranha in 64-bit color?? You have to be insane.

And finally, Linux on a very nice PC where it belongs, versus my SGI..again no comparison. Let's compare SGI OpenGL to Mesa, or ext2fs to XFS. Let's run high-end applications that cost more than some people's houses on IRIX then on Linux. Going to Linux is like going back to Windows. I'm sorry to say it. 

I sure wouldn't want my beautiful box having Linux anywhere near it either.

Of course, I use Linux too. But on a headless PC server... thats where it belongs.

Thanks, -- Finley

rescue at sunhelp.org wrote:
>
> nick at snowman.net wrote:
> > 
> > You would recommend irix instead?
> > 
> 
> Hooray for OS wars!... well, Linux deserves it.
> 
> IRIX is a proprietary OS for proprietary hardware. No other OS should
> even be attempted to be built or run on it. As to why anyone would want
> to, is beyond me. Why someone would want to move from proven, stable,
> rock-solid, completely scalable (ie, ccNUMA) hardware and software to
> hacked together, standard-less, undocumented, inefficient, unscalable
> (ie, beowulf clusters--that's a joke, right?) crap, like Linux, running
> on flaky PC hardware is also beyond me. With this in mind, might I
> remind you what happened when your little MIPS/Linux port kiddies tried
> porting Linux on an Origin2000? The same O2k with 32 processors running
> IRIX performed ~13% better than the O2k with 256 processors running that
> hacked up Linux. There were a number of "benchmarks", which usually
> don't tell you much anyway... I'm sure Quake was one of them though...
> SGI has always, at least until recently, been way ahead of its time...
> in its graphics subsystems, and in its system architecture. Linux has no
> place shoving its way into places where it doesn't belong.
> 
> -Dave
> 
> "Linux is only free if your time is worthless." --MrNutty/SkyWriter/John
> Walton/real person.
> 
> "What do Linux and its users have in common? Both were created after
> 1990." --Cosmos/#sgi
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