From owner-freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 27 15:30:14 2004 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E5BE16A4D0 for <freebsd-mips@freebsd.org>; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:30:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (coyote.seekingfire.com [24.72.10.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AA5843D49 for <freebsd-mips@freebsd.org>; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:30:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id D7AC354E; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:30:13 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:30:13 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> To: Gregory Nou <gregorynou@altern.org> Message-ID: <20041027153013.GD94897@seekingfire.com> References: <1098890272.39238.69.camel@alfred> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1098890272.39238.69.camel@alfred> X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to <http://www.habeas.com/report/>. X-GPG-Key-ID: 828AFC7B X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5584 14BA C9EB 1524 0E68 F543 0F0A 7FBC 828A FC7B X-GPG-Key: http://www.seekingfire.com/gpg_key.asc X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IRiX or FreeBSD ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to MIPS <freebsd-mips.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mips>, <mailto:freebsd-mips-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mips> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-mips@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-mips-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mips>, <mailto:freebsd-mips-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:30:14 -0000 On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 05:17:52PM +0200, Gregory Nou wrote: > Hi ! > I recently get an Octane Station > I have on HD with Irix, but since I do not have a license, I'm not > likely to use it. > I was wondering if I should try to get one, switch to freebsd, or > install a linux. > Could you tell me where the project is ? Is there a usable version ? http://hardware.majix.org/computers/sgi/buyers-guide.shtml has a section ("IRIX") that discusses some of the IRIX license issues. NetBSD runs fine on my O2, though I use a serial console rather than the graphical console. I'd prefer to run FreeBSD but, last I heard on this this, the port wasn't at a comparable level of development yet. http://www.seekingfire.com/projects/e3hardware/index.html#laz -T -- | <- You must be smarter than this stick to ride the Internet -- Mike Handler, paraphrased from Bev White