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piratePenguin:
what's so bad about Linspire? Their CNR thing seems very cool (and it's free (as in free beer) now, and open source (no idea of the exact licensing))..

obob:
I don't think we do, but Linux is always attributed as "Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds" when posted on a corporate website, like SGI, Sun, Novell, IBM, Microsoft, etc

don't think we do, given that we don't put it after anything else (we don't type "Intel Pentium(R) 4" do we?)

I'm sort of surprised how quickly SGI has abandoned IRIX 6.x, which used to be their whole pride and joy, and now they've transitioned their top shelf servers towards Itanium2 and Linux, and their workstations are moving in the same direction afaik

while Origin seems to be run to a standstill with the R16k series MIPS procs (i think 16k is the top, idk, might be off a tad bit there) and IRIX 6.5.x, then again, who buys an Origin?

worker201:
Nice thread hijack.

SGI probably just doesn't want to have to deal with software development.  Why would they want to?  With most of the Linux team doing all the work basically for free, you'd be a fool to build a *nix system with some proprietary OS on it.  I used Irix, about 5 years ago - unless it got monumentally better since then, they needed all the help they could get, especially on the graphical interface side.

They probably also have customers who want to run Linux apps.

hm_murdock:
Irix is still junk.

H_TeXMeX_H:
Thread Hijack ? I don't think this thead had a point in the first place.

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