Irix?

[carrja99]

Recently I've been hearing people claiming they've finally found the OS that suits thier needs, and it's IRIX. What is IRIX? What are it's stregnths and weaknesses compared to Linux? Does anyone here use irix, and if so, why?

[FoBoT]

i haven't tried it yet, but i went and looked at the web site a week or so ago

[El_Cu_Guy]

What is IRIX?

A UNIX-based operating system from SGI that is used in its computer systems from desktops to supercomputers. It is an enhanced version of UNIX System V Release 4. IRIX integrates the X Window system with OpenGL, creating the first realtime 3-D X environment.

IRIX is compliant with UNIX System V Release 4 and The Open Group's many standards, including UNIX 95, Year 2000, and POSIX.

Open Source at SGI Overview

SGI established its intellectual alliance with Open Source years before the term was coined. That alliance continues to this day through contributions of SGI intellectual energy and properties to the Open Source developmental maelstrom. SGI believes that connecting ever more of the distributed intellectual resources of the Net helps individual developers and the global Open Source community to develop alliances and accelerate the growth and maturation of market-like computational ecologies.

[sean_foulkes]

only 2 questions: the important ones.

Is it free?
Does it run any cool(specifically linux) programs?

[zagiboy]

I love IRIX. I run it on my SGI indigo. No different from any other UNIX. If you want pure UNIX, go for FreeBSD, or OpenBSD. Last time I heard, its riddled with security holes. IM me if you need more info, AIM is Zagiboy.

[bandwidth_pig]

Originally posted by zagiboy
I love IRIX. I run it on my SGI indigo. No different from any other UNIX. If you want pure UNIX, go for FreeBSD, or OpenBSD. Last time I heard, its riddled with security holes. IM me if you need more info, AIM is Zagiboy.

Interesting. Some of the largest sites on the internet use BSD (Yahoo for example). NetBSD if I am not mistaken. But really, if you want to really examine this, Unix was never designed with security in mind, much like the internet itself, and since all of the major flavors are branches off some portion of the "Unix Tree" if you will, one almost wonders if it is all relative. Besides, it's not the OS. It's how you run it.