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Herein lies the IRIX Appreciation Thread

Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 12:57 am
by phirkel
Here is the thread where everyone shares their appreciation for the SGI masterpiece OS IRIX.

I love IRIX...mostly because I worked for MIPS (until hard times struck...and now I'm a student again :( ) and I love MIPS CPU cores, which is the arch that IRIX was made for. Not to mention the IRIS Personal Desktop is one of the most usable UNIX desktops on the market.

By the way, if you say you like IRIX because you like the scalable vector icons, you can go to hell.

Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 1:07 am
by ClockWise
God damn it. Am I going to have to take away the ability of members to post stickies?

It really seems a dumb thing for members to have, anyways.

Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 2:41 am
by Mac Emu
I like the scalable vector icons myself.

Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 12:38 pm
by Guest
That's what I thought. Why is this a sticky???!!!!?????

Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 1:42 am
by phirkel
Sorry, it's a sticky for a comedy option...that's it, really...

The scalable vector icons are cool for like 10 minutes, I found...then I found other things, like how usable the IRIS personal desktop is...and how it has a REALLY nice file manager.

The only thing that pisses me off about IRIX is how hard it is to set a custom wallpaper. I hope they fixed that in a version after 6.5.5 :(

Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 1:57 am
by ClockWise
That's good enough a reason for me.

Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 12:23 am
by sHARD>>
I have the entire disk set for an ancient version of IRIX (like all 10 CDs)...Don't remeber which version though. We used to run it on our systems...its been a long time though. (Debian is now our system of choice)

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 3:19 pm
by robojam
So what's this "portage SheepShaver package" then?

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 6:50 pm
by Trombone Bob
Porage is the way the gentoo linux can install parts of linux. By typing "emerge sheepshaver" you can install Sheepshaver on gentoo. However this never worked correctly.

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:00 pm
by robojam
So what is being maintained then?

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 1:49 am
by phirkel
IRIX needs to be celebrated more.

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 10:36 am
by Stephen Coates
phirkel!

Not seen you for a long time.

As for IRIX, I've never used it.

Re: Herein lies the IRIX Appreciation Thread

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 9:31 pm
by ClockWise

Re: Herein lies the IRIX Appreciation Thread

Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2020 5:16 pm
by swordlink1
Why is this still a sticky?

Re: Herein lies the IRIX Appreciation Thread

Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2020 6:06 pm
by adespoton
No idea why this is still a sticky, but I have fond memories of dialing in to the IRIX mainframe in the mid-90s. Scalable Vector Graphics are nice too.

Re: Herein lies the IRIX Appreciation Thread

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2020 1:02 pm
by ClockWise
Just for whimsy, I guess! Any topic with a "Mac Emu" AND a Stephen Coates post is a-okay in my book.

Re: Herein lies the IRIX Appreciation Thread

Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 9:12 pm
by Stephen Coates
ClockWise wrote: Wed Jul 22, 2020 1:02 pm Just for whimsy, I guess! Any topic with a "Mac Emu" AND a Stephen Coates post is a-okay in my book.
Yay :). I'm worthy of a sticky :mrgreen:.

Re: Herein lies the IRIX Appreciation Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 12:45 am
by ClockWise
Look who it is! How are you, Stephen Coates?
Stephen Coates wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 9:12 pm

Yay :). I'm worthy of a sticky :mrgreen:.

Re: Herein lies the IRIX Appreciation Thread

Posted: Tue May 10, 2022 9:49 am
by galgot

Re: Herein lies the IRIX Appreciation Thread

Posted: Tue May 10, 2022 3:51 pm
by adespoton
There's also a fork of QEMU that emulates the IRIX userland on Linux: https://github.com/irixxxx/qemu-irix

Re: Herein lies the IRIX Appreciation Thread

Posted: Tue May 10, 2022 6:42 pm
by galgot
Reading the whole thread on the forum posted above, someone mention this also :
"On the other hand, you can buy the Motif IRIX from MaXX Interactive , which bought the rights to the SGI libraries (not the OS). I believe this gives the right to distribute static Linux binaries."
here : https://docs.maxxinteractive.com/
Looks beautiful...