All of SGI's changes have been submitted on the kernal dev lists and many of them have been incorparated into the 2.3.x dev kernels. Others are still being looked at.
See ftp://oss.sgi.com/www/projects/linuxsgi/download/p atches/kanoj/index.html for details and to grab the source to all thier patches.
They are shipping a modified version of RedHat 6.0 with fixes for nfs, nfs, tcp/ip and samba performance. You can grab the entire distribution they are shipping here:
For more info on their opensource projects in general see here:
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/
SGI deserves to be applauded by the linux community, they have dedicated a serious amount of dollars and engineers to improving several of the major weakpoints in linux and they are giving everything back to the community.
No they are not. This was killed. You are correct that MIPS is still to be irix and they are still developing future versions of irix for mips cpu's but they have offically canned the port of irix to ia64.
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Why does everyone always assume the worst?
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All of SGI's changes have been submitted
on the kernal dev lists and many of them have been
incorparated into the 2.3.x dev kernels. Others are still being looked at.
See ftp://oss.sgi.com/www/projects/linuxsgi/download/
for details and to grab the source to all thier patches.
You can grab the whole SGI linux distro as well:
ftp://oss.sgi.com/www/projects/linuxsgi/downloa
SGI is doing "the right thing" tm.
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They are shipping a modified version of RedHat
6.0 with fixes for nfs, nfs, tcp/ip and samba
performance. You can grab the entire distribution
they are shipping here:
ftp://oss.sgi.com/www/projects/linuxsgi/downloa
And this page has info on the status of all their
patches that they are trying to get into the
mainstream kernel.
ftp://oss.sgi.com/www/projects/linuxsgi/downloa
For more info on their opensource projects in general see here:
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/
SGI deserves to be applauded by the linux community, they have dedicated a serious amount of dollars and engineers to improving several of the major weakpoints in linux and they are giving everything back to the community.
>they are also porting IRIX to IA64
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No they are not. This was killed. You are correct that MIPS is still to be irix and they are still developing future versions of irix for mips cpu's but they have offically canned the port of irix to ia64.
This cnet article confirms it:
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,38162,00.html
complete with quotes from sgi senior executives.