23 Oct
2007
23 Oct
'07
12:37 p.m.
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Oct 23, 2007, at 6:02 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
For a laugh, a few years ago I installed Linux on my R4600 133mHz Indy.
The machine took 8 hours to compile a Linux kernel, 21 hours to compile X
- and 34 hours to compile KDE. <chuckle>
Not much of a benchmark, since Linux isn't as efficient on the MIPS
processors as IRIX, for obvious reasons, but... for what it's worth :)
JP
So for the more experienced SGI folks - do you
feel that an Indy or
Indigo is responsive enough to be reasonable to use, or is it worth
holding out for something newer and most likely more expensive to
acquire? Also, something I don't know much about, do the older
personal graphic workstations use odd or impossible-to-find memory, or
are they easy/cheap to load up?
Indigo2, yes...Indigo or Indy, no. Just my opinion.