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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


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