[SunRescue] SS10 SX board...curious

[GregoryLeblancGLeblanc at cu-portland.edu]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt Mosiejczuk [mailto:kurt at csh.rit.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 7:35 AM
> To: 'rescue at sunhelp.org'
> Subject: RE: [SunRescue] SS10 SX board...curious
> 
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> > won't be bothering with X on any of my SPARCs.  IRIX is 
> just too good.
> > 	Grego
> 
> *shudder*
> 
> I suppose that may be true for a home network, but I have a friend who
> went from an all-Sun shop to Sun and SGI, and is now back to 
> being all-Sun
> BECAUSE of IRIX and the (lack of) support SGI gives out.
> 
> Fun stuff like:
> 
> Admin: We've got this bug.
> SGI: That's fixed in 6.4
> Admin: But my machines won't run 6.4
> SGI: Correct.
> Admin: So can I get a fix for my machines?
> SGI: That bug is fixed in 6.4
> 
> Ugh.

Hmm, that sucks.  I'm in a bit different situation, and I'm NOT looking at
it from a support standpoint.  I've got one of those SunHelp Indy's, and a
pretty good friend down at the local SGI office.  So I managed to get a full
copy of the media for 6.5.8, and the books, and got to go down to their
office here to install these machines via the network.  Since this is a
desktop machine, I don't expect to find too many show-stopping bugs, as all
it needs to do is provide Netscape that doesn't look like crap, and a whole
SLEW of GNOME Terminals so that I can manage the rest of the network.  
All that said, I've only been using IRIX since last Wednesday, and not very
heavily at that (except for playing with my IndyCam).  I'm far too busy
trying to get our network upgraded/put back together before school starts up
again in a few weeks. 8^) Later,
	Grego