Re: Free UNIX for non-commerical use.

From: Bob Hoekstra (Bob.Hoekstra_at_HoekstraSystems.ltd.uk)
Date: 07/28/03 

Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 23:15:29 +0100

Yuan wrote:
> As much as I don't like the Linux hype, I still have to admit it is a
> poprlar OS.
> At least I can't find any Unix magazine, there isn't a magazine I know just
> for Unix
> but quiet a few for Linux.

Try Sys Admin (http://www.sysadminmag.com/) and become a member of Sage
(http://www.sage.org/) to receive ;login:

You are right, the rest have all disappeared. However, much of what you read in Linux mags
is applicable to Unix. Pity that so much is at a very simple level :-(

>>And you're missing the point. Anything will run on anything if
>>ported. You don't need MIPS to have SGI, etc. etc. etc. If SGI's
>>OS was worthwhile, it would get ported. No?
>>
>
> Yes, it will get ported, but will it run as well as on the original
> hardwares?
> Can Solaris on a x86 runs as well as on a Sparc machine?

Nobody has the source for Irix outside of SGI. Why should SGI port it? They have gone very
heavily into Linux support for x86 machines, which they also produce. I suspect that in
the long run Irix/MIPS will become an expensive niche market, eventually to die out. If
SGI survive it will be as a shipper of cool, mainly x86, hardware and perhaps some
high-end servers. 

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