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- 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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