![]() ![]() We wish the IRIX-32 project all possible luck… but its argument that it's out of patent and is therefore safe to recreate sounds less than totally watertight to us. SGI used MIPS processors, and the Chinese Loongson architecture is extremely close to MIPS. Unlike Itanic, at least one derivative of IRIX's native platform still survives. As there is no new hardware being made that the OS can run on, HP-UX is effectively as dead as IRIX. HPE did have a plan to port HP-UX to x86-64, but axed "Project Redwood" over a decade ago. HPE also owns its own UNIX, HP-UX, but that has no future as recent versions only run on Itanium. SGI, as in The Company Formerly Known As Rackable, has been part of HP Enterprise since 2016. The problem with trying to reimplement any part of IRIX that wasn't expressly published as open source is that somebody still owns it. Red Hat releases RHEL 9.2 to customers, with buffet of rebuilds for the rest of us.Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support 6 Answers Sorted by: 22 You should check if your distribution is using the vanilla GLIBC or the EGLIBC fork (Debian and Ubuntu have switched to EGLIBC EDIT: they switched back around 2014).Windows XP activation algorithm cracked, keygen now works on Linux.Why you might want an email client in the era of webmail.We fear that both the timeline and the budget strike us as extremely optimistic. The project lead estimates a time frame of 18 to 24 months. Better still, the project already has a commercial sponsorship, to the tune of some $6,500. 1 Documents 1.1 User/Admin documentation 1.2 Presentations 1.3 Books 1.4 Magazine Articles 1.5 Benchmarks 1.6 Documentation 1.7 KVM Doxygen Documentation 1.8 Tools 1. Although IRIX then went 64-bit and made it to release 6.5.30, the team points out that the 32-bit version was approximately one-third of the size and complexity, as well as offering better backwards compatibility, including with IRIX 4.x. The final 32-bit version of IRIX was version 5.3, and this is what the team hopes to recreate in open source form. In other SGI-related matters, OSNews reports that a surprising project went public last week: an effort to reverse engineer the 32-bit version of Silicon Graphics' IRIX kernel. ![]() ( The Reg FOSS desk hasn't used either logical-volume management system in anger in years, but distantly recalls preferring the EVMS tooling to the alternative LVM2 system, which won the favor of the kernel developers and got built in instead.) It's also the basis of Red Hat's next-generation Stratis storage engine, which combines the XFS disk format with ZFS-style enhanced volume management. XFS has faded somewhat into obscurity in recent years, but in the past it has been the default filesystem in more than one enterprise distro. ![]()
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