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SGI x86 Linux Servers
I think I need an SGI icon- the news from out there just keeps
streaming in-
Mage sent us a link
to an interesting bit from Federal Computer Week
talking about x86 Servers designed to run NT or Linux.
The article has a pretty glaring mistake though, saying that
Red Hat and Caldera are "Public Domain" Operating Systems.
Update: 02/08 05:11 by CT : Hooray! We have an SGI icon now. Anyone have one for
mp3s now?
Could this mean SGI will aid RedHat and XFree86 with 3D accleration code? That would be incredible.
Especially if the SGI machines had hardware 3D acceleration.
Here's to hoping.
According to my friend at SGI. He didn't
have a timetable. The idea is that the
box will have accellerated open-gl. Should
be pretty damn good.
Oh, this is on the Xenon boxes I think.
-- cary
uhh, I dunno, maybe DBAs who get hard at the idea of 4GBps memory bandwidth?????
Sweet!
An SGI icon would be nice. Here is where to get it.
g i_logos.html
http://www.sgi.com/developers/marketing/logos/s
How about a skull and crossbones overlaid on a musical note? ;-)
CT: Hooray! We have an SGI icon now. Anyone have one for mp3s now?
How about the Jolly Roger?
--
Jason Eric Pierce
How 'bout CmdrTaco tries to write one article header without saying 'mp3'.
/. existed when jpeg was new, the hype :p
Hard Drive -mp3
SGI - mp3
Hardware mp3 - mp3
RIAA - mp3
MS- RIAA - mp3
MS - mp3
Everything on the goddamn planet -mP3zzzzzzz
If
would have been unbearable!
-kabloie
The graphics performance appears to be significantly better than what has previously been available for PC's. Whether or not its enough to justify the extra cost is another matter.
Hell, I even submitted a a news.com article about it a week ago.
They sure can. But they won't, because that would mean giving up their secret key to the Windows source code.
mp3.gif
Uh, hello? You can't redefine public domain to suit
your self. Linux is copyrighted software, and therefore
explicitly *not* in the public domain. I suggest
you read the copyright faq for an explanation
of public domain. You can't call freely distributable
software public domain just because you feel like
defining public domain differently today.
People already buy VA research boxes which are pretty overpriced. And I do not think that term "overpriced" works here. People are willing to pay more for Linux to be preinstalled and configured. People are willing to pay more for a possibility of having a phone number where they could call if something screws up. And of course, people are willing to pay for superior thechnology. The SGI Visual PCs smoke all other PC workstations and are priced accordingly. Hell, I bet VS PCs even smoke the $6000 SGI O2 workstations which run IRIX ...
Am I dreaming, or is it slashdot's policy now to randomly delete stories even when they're not duplicates? I know for a fact that I wrote a comment about ESR's 'opinion' on Y2k. But now the whole story seems to be gone.
There are a whole bunch of articles missing from the past few hours. This seems to happen from time to time. It's affecting cachedot as well.
rockin' icon.
wish I could have a Visual pc runing Linux for *my* birthday. *sigh* 8]
There is life outside Linux, you little wannabe!
Sheesh!
j.
The Cursed WWW strikes again!!!
MWAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!
I think it's more like News for Nerds, by Nerds. All Nerdly news All the time. (well most of the time. :)
I read the internet for the articles.
>It's not "News for Nerds", it's "News from Nerds".
:)
Same thing!
-- No, no -- Not that one!
As mentioned there is
:)
restrictions in the license...
I'd like to point out though:
He didn't say the distributions
were public domain,
he said they distributed linux...
If they bundle the kernel with non-free stuff
that is not an issue in this case...
Just feelt like picking at something...
-- No, no -- Not that one!
Create your own if you don't like this Slashdot. It's Rob's to operate however he sees fit - and he doesn't have to ask anyone else for permission to do it however he wants. This is his place. Go somewhere else, you ungrateful bastard.
Posted by Jeremy Allison - Samba Team:
:-).
.... watch for more announcements.
I'm glad SGI has finally announced what they're up to in the Linux world.
When I joined SGI to do Samba for them many of my colleages thought I was insane
There is *mucho* cool Open Source work going on within SGI right now.... more than I'm allowed to talk about.
But SGI "gets it". That will become very clear, very soon
Cheers,
Jeremy Allison,
(*NOT* speaking for SGI).
But it's jibberish. The tenor clef (?) symbol should at least be in front of the notes otherwise how are we to know what value those note have.
Guess not... :)
As long as SGI ports over all the hardware-specific libraries/etc. than Linux should be pretty killer on SGI boxes. Hell, I'm psyched.
I'd rather see a "digital music" logo, so that the topic can contain news about VQF and the other standards for encrypted/protected digital audio. This issue is bigger than just MP3.
Make a machine without whoopass 3D -capabilities-, yes. Actually adding the necessary software so that the whoopass 3D could be used under Linux is a different story.
:-)
However, according to ye olde rumor mill, SGI is working to add 3D support for their hardware under Linux. Whether that means one engineer working part-time, or a volunteer fed tidbits of technical info, who knows.
An official statement from SGI would be nice *hint hint*
SGI's crossbar switch and cache-coherent NUMA are superior to Sun's.
-shrug- Well, what did we expect from somebody who goes and actually writes "Hahahahaha!!!" in his post? Sense?
"Be nice, veer left, and never stop thinking" Iain Banks - Walking On Glass
why is it that most reporters have to use a lot of "buzz" words, or "technical" words to discribe something that they have no idea about? did they never hear about research? Geez, it makes you wonder about watching the news at nights. Cause when you know about something and you hear these boobs report about it, you always realise that they screw stuff up. So imagine when you don't know what they are talkign about, they could buy you and sell you for a fool.
Its spelt "L-I-N-U-X", but pronunced as "Free Beer"
The SGI site for Linux, I think it would be a good idea to modifiy this a bit and include it in here.. Very cool. Seems like tux is wearing an SGI t-shirt :)
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Software works which fall under open source licenses can be considered public domain, depending on the definition of public domain. If the definition of public domain is chosen to be "software without an owner," then it is not public domain. However, in many fields, public domain is defined as any piece of software where the license does not place restrictions on the distribution and modification of the software in question. This definition is the one used in the free software exemption of the cryptography clauses in the Wassenar Agreement, for instance. Both are perfectly valid definitions of public domain.
Since the software in RedHat distributions are all free software (except certain packages included in the commercial distribution only), the software in RedHat Linux falls under the later definition of "public domain."
hehe - I've been looking around and they are hard to come by - it might end up being ripped off of a proggy or site or something. :::shrug:::
--onyx--
As the parent company to A/W, how about maya coming to linux and compiled for every platform under the sun. How many times have I written a comment like this?
Excuse me while I drool over Maya running on Linux/Alpha. Sigh.
My interpretation was that it called Linux public domain, and that it was available from vendors like Red-Hat and Caldera were two seperate statements , just worded all funky style.
cheeze always plays the mac
Hope the twitchy lawyer types don't sue you for giving them free publicity.