[H-GEN] sun or sgi monitor

David Jericho davidj at pisoftware.com
Wed Aug 13 19:27:33 EDT 2003


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On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:19:53PM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote:
> Question?  What OS are you planning on running on them?  IRIX, Linux or
> some other OS?

To be honest, *BSD and Linux on SGI machines sucks. Big time. 

You lose support on all the hardware that makes SGI machines
interesting in the first place. 

Stick with IRIX. It's not all that different to Linux, and it works
well on the hardware.

-- 
David Jericho
Systems Administrator, Plugged In Software

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