I hope someone picks up IRIX or that it's made open source. I've been working with UNIX/Linux for about 16 yrs and have been an official SA for about 9. I gotta tell ya, IRIX is really nice. I like the way it handles devices - scsiha/ioconfig/hinv is real nice - and the partitioner, fx. Their installation progam, inst, is not bad either but could use a better network automated installer. Overall, I think it was ahead of it's time, but could have been improved on. I guess they switched focus to Linux(SUSE) instead. I feel if someone picks it up, say IBM, they could make some real cool improvements.
I have a cousin who was invited to a summit about global warming and polution. He saw first hand that the way the US gets around implementing policy for change is to help 3rd world countries reduce emissions. I don't know the details, but this gives the US govt points towards the global country rating in reducing GHGs.
So in a nutshell, the US is using a loophole to get around implementing better polution policies.
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I hope someone picks up IRIX or that it's made open source. I've been working with UNIX/Linux for about 16 yrs and have been an official SA for about 9. I gotta tell ya, IRIX is really nice. I like the way it handles devices - scsiha/ioconfig/hinv is real nice - and the partitioner, fx. Their installation progam, inst, is not bad either but could use a better network automated installer. Overall, I think it was ahead of it's time, but could have been improved on. I guess they switched focus to Linux(SUSE) instead. I feel if someone picks it up, say IBM, they could make some real cool improvements.
I have a cousin who was invited to a summit about global warming and polution. He saw first hand that the way the US gets around implementing policy for change is to help 3rd world countries reduce emissions. I don't know the details, but this gives the US govt points towards the global country rating in reducing GHGs.
So in a nutshell, the US is using a loophole to get around implementing better polution policies.