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Re: Executor/Linux Info



In your message (Mon, 24 Apr 1995 23:11 0000), you wrote:
>I have heard a lot about Executor/Linux being better than Executor/DOS. Now I
>have the opportunity to try out Executor/Linux. However, I have one dumb 
>question before I bother downloading it. I have access to 4 different computer
>s
>that I want to run Executor/Linux on. However, they aren't running Linux. They
> 
>are running actual Unix with actual (non-XFREE) XWindows. All are Silicon
>Graphics Machines. Two are Indigos and two are Indy's the Indigo's are 33 MHz 
>as well as the INdy
>(sorry) as wells as the Indy's. 
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Mike Lewis

As far as I am aware, executor is only available for two Unix-like 
OS's; Linux and NextSTEP.  So running it on your SGIs is a no-go for 
now.  However, why not find someone with a PC and a few Mb to spare 
and give Linux a go?  In recent months Linux installation has become 
much easier and you don't need to re-partition your hard disk 
either.  Linux will use a DOS format partition, and put all its 
files in a \LINUX directory out of the way.  A full Linux 
installation including X and gcc occupies about 70Mb of hard disk 
space (very small by Unix standards).

On a point of pedantry, IRIX is not real Unix any more than Linux 
is; Unix is a trademark of Novell, and no-one else can call their OS 
unix.  Also, XFree86 *is* 'real' X11.  It is now an official part of 
the MIT X distribution.  In fact, as a user of both Linux and IRIX, 
I should point out that I have found software much easier to compile 
for Linux than for IRIX.  IRIX has some weird idiosyncracies.

Tim. 



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