10 May
2013
10 May
'13
2:48 p.m.
On 10 May 2013, at 17:14, "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
wrote:
On 05/10/2013 04:21 PM, David Griffith wrote:
Have you ever tried running Linux on a Sun IPC?
Linux on an Alpha is probably the worst.
I'd argue NT 4 on Alpha is better.
SGI Indy:
I have one. I made the mistake of putting linux on it. It's now the
slowest linux box I've ever used... (;
My first Indy was a R4600 and I didn't have IRIX, so I net-installed Linux
on it. It would take 4 hours to complete a kernel build, and it took 11
hours to build X. I gave up on doing the gcc build.
I think a lot of that was due to GCC's abyssmal code generation on those
architectures at the time. It's much better nowadays.
But still not what i'd call "fantastic". ;)
I'll never understand the drive to put Linux on an SGI. "Gee, we've got
all this great hardware, let's WASTE it!"
People want to run linux on everything. Even toilets!
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajW2fDy41fY)
Linux is definitely a waste of SGI's hardware.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA