Re: [TCLUG:16748] SGI/IRIX q's

[Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> 1. what's the status of the Indy listserv idea?
> 
> 2. from what the licensing discussion sounds like, we'll be running IRIX 5.3
> on the Indys, unless we buy an upgrade ourselves.
>         a. what would be the advantages of an upgrade to Irix 6.5?
>         b. how much would it cost?
> 
> Nate, you mentioned compiling WindowMaker for your Indy. where did you find
> that? is it an official port of WindowMaker for IRIX? I'm normally an FVWM2
> user (lean, reliable, efficient); but I figure if I'm going to have an SGI,
> I ought to dress it up a bit. :)

I just installed the C compiler and the gnu make utilities, grabbed the
source, and built it. :)

> I'm just curious about what sorts of software are readily available; and
> what we might have to port ourselves. I'm interested in doing some graphics
> work. I've been told there's a port of GIMP for IRIX. Are there any free
> VRML tools readily available?

You can just get a GNU build environment on the Indy and compile most
stuff..

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