[geeks] Linc is cool

David Michaud geeks at sunhelp.org
Tue May 15 17:28:17 CDT 2001


"Joshua D. Boyd" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 15 May 2001, David Michaud wrote:
> > I'm baffled as to why one would want to cripple a functional machine by
> > putting linux on it. Put linux on a Silicon Graphics machine, and it
> > might as well just be a peecee.
> 
> Oh yes, then there are the people who bought an SGI as governement surplus
> without realizing that an OS cost another $600.  I bet they are going to
> be pretty big fans of Linux/MIPS whenever it gets to be good enough to do
> real work on.
> 

I'm sure that those people are not going to care about licensing, and
hence:

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=IRIX+set

-Dave




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