[rescue] IRIX/SGI opinions of O2 for graphics?

[Gary Nichols]

Good information!  What's your take on the 320?  The one in my possession 
came with EN-TEE 4 Workstation on it - I've read online that some people 
are picking these boxes up now for cool linux/gimp workstations.

What's your take on it Nick?  

Gary (who feels much more enlightened about Linux on SGI)

 On Tue, 
10 Sep 2002 nick at snowman.net wrote:

> I'm trying not too.  Just FYI the o2 GFX support came via the SGI-VISW
> support, which as you pointed out also uses the cobalt GFX.  X runs, it's
> just borring old X on FB support, there were a few bugs initially, but
> those are worked out.  On o2 there are still some quirks with the ethernet
> driver we're trying to track down.  SGI-VISW is starting to bitrot because
> so few use it, but as far as I know it's still functional, if not as good
> as it was.  Please don't make claims against linux unless you know what's
> going on.  For now the o2 port is low profile, and has received minimal to
> no support from SGI, and I don't expect to get any as o2 is dieing.  There
> are a few major apps missing (mozilla, because of something about "missing
> multigot/xgot" which I don't quite understand), but in general app
> availability is far far far better than irix.
> 	Nick