Re: SGI Freeware Feb. 2004

From: S.Chang (shu.chang_at_mapson.ieee.org)
Date: 01/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:54:35 GMT

Linux on SGI User wrote:
> roberson@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Walter Roberson) wrote in message news:<bv6rqj$5ht$1@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>...
>
>>In article <bv6p63$9nq$1@ente.berdmann.de>,
>>Bernhard Erdmann <be+usenet@berdmann.de> wrote:
>>:Shouldn't it be available by now?
>>
>>It's only January. And the previous Freeware hasn't come out yet.
>
>
> not to worry because freeware is not needed anymore i think. when sgi
> puts out linux on mips and you can easily upgrade to a real working os
> with all these greate open source tools included then there is no
> need.
>
Is that all you know? open source? take a look into GPL, it has more
restrictions than commercial softwares, at least I can use commercial
Unix and know everything we developed in the lab can be published
without any questions being asked by the vendors, can you do that with
softwares under GPL?
Source is opened but only for decoration!

> i will post info to put an athlon combo in your sgi so you can run
> linux right now and not need others to make the freeware for you
Buy a PC, install Linux, and wait for X to crash so you can press
Crt+Alt+Back, how exciting when you are half way through a 6000 CPU hour
simulation, only happens on Linux, not even M$ will give you this
pleasure of losing everything you have done.

Not everything is all abut parallel processing, how many CPUs can Linux
handle in an SMP system? 2? 4? 8? how about over 100 CPUs in vertical
config? can "young" Linux handle that?

S.Chang

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