[rescue] SGI Indigo2 & IRIX 6.5

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Sun Nov 30 20:48:14 CST 2008


On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, Phil Stracchino wrote:

>> On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>>> You still have a large choice of desktop manageres on IRIX, you just
>>> have the inconvenience of (usually) having to compile the one which you
>>> actually like.
>>
>> Yes, but the one that comes with the box is fast and useful, not bloated
>> and slow like KDE and GNOME.
>
> KDE is not Linux.
> GNOME is not Linux.

Okay, then Linux comes with no desktop environment.  Point for IRIX.  Oh,
Linux also doesn't come with a dynamic loader.  Or a shell.  Or a
bootloader.  Damn, what can you do with that thing?

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