A Look at IRIX 6.5.17

XFS writes "OSNews got their hands on the latest version of IRIX, 6.5.17 (released in August), and they have published an interesting article about it and they explain why IRIX was and still is, one of the best workstation Unices out there. Especially when it comes to multimedia/GL performance. I hope SGI will do something with IRIX though, as they seem to have let it fall behind and be one of these great technologies that get lost through various corporate focus shifts..."

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"The OS looks dated" - WTF?

[Gothmolly]

Recipe for technology article:
1 paragraph fluff
1 paragraph spin
1/2 cup FUD

Mix in HTML editor.
Publish.

Seriously, this article is light on details, and filled with inane comments like "the OS looks dated". While there were some good comments, half of the time it was gushing over the X server, or cheering over the fact that the author can run XMMS. What about performance? Applications? Hardware compatibility/expandibility? Talk to us about the box - does SGI/IRIX know about USB, for instance? FireWire?

Details please..

In other SGI news:

[Sn4xx0r]

They just hired Jon "maddog" Hall to 'help SGI to sponsor and encourage a community-based "Extreme Linux" movement around SGI's NUMAFlex architecture.'

X11 credit's where credit is due

[Diabolical]

This is a fine example that X11 is a good graphics-server.

Although alot of X11 bashing has been going on IRIX shows us that X11 is actually a very viable and capable graphics-server and certainly gives the finger to all those X11 implementations which have been done BAD.

So please, next time you go and blame your sucky graphics on X11, take a good look at the implementation of it in your system.