10 May
2013
10 May
'13
2:14 p.m.
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 think a lot of that was due to GCC's abyssmal code generation on those
architectures at the time. It's much better nowadays.
I'll never understand the drive to put Linux on an SGI. "Gee, we've got
all this great hardware, let's WASTE it!"
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
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.