IRIX on x86? A Look at Lirix! (feat. MaXXdesktop) 

Oh huh, that's actually really interesting so it is much more common than I thought. cool!

Compared to btrfs?

@@R4dm1n BTRFS is slow, also not a reliable as people seem to think. I have personally had BTRFS fuck up in uncorrectable ways 2 times on two separate drives that were both perfectly fine when I tested them. I have used BTRFS to RAID drives before, and that actually worked well, but I didn't keep the RAID for long as it was just a test. The thing I find strange about BTRFS is that it has all this support, such as the excellent WinBTRFS driver for windows which works amazingly well, while still seeming to have weird issues that other filesystems don't have.

XFS is in general faster. I used to always partition my drives with it and when I told my friends about it they did it too. We all noticed the performance improvement. I'm just too lazy to partition using XFS now days.

There's a fairly big drawback of XFS, unless you are installing purely as a data drive for storing large files. It has a huge block size compared to other filesystems and you end up with a fairly large overhead on disks with lots of small files. SGI designed the filesystem to cater for the biggest use case that SGI machines were known for. Video. Back in 2002, before RedHat desktop became fedora you could download a custom RedHat installer boot disk that allowed XFS from the installer. I remember being wowed by it too, as 2002 was when I bought a fair amount of cheap, old SGI machines. They lost a tonne of value around 2002ish. Fast forward 20 years and they are 10-12 times more expensive than what you'd pay in 2002 due to the modest number of machines built. As more and more break down there's less and less availability. I wish i'd have checked prices in 2011 when I moved house, as my collection (assumed worthless) was tossed into a skip due to lack of space.

lol i impulse installed it on my t530

That's quite a collection! And yeah very sad story - all money pouring from mass adaptation of x86 killed almost everyone else. At least SGI's most important work STL, XFS, OpenGL and many others lives on. If that is any consolation SGI's legacy is still living out there. IRIX core system is just modified System V Unix - not that special and now well surpassed by others. What was special was their specialized SW working closely with their specialized HW - sadly that can't be reasonably replaced. Outside small microcontrollers last mass produced MIPS HW was Playstation 2. Tough if you have source code it probably can be adapted to contemporary Unix-like OS like Linux or FreeBSD and thus modern HW too as frankly almost everything valuable from their legacy was gutted. But if all you have is binary privilege of running them is limited to those few custodians like you. But there is a glimmer of hope. We have now ARM making it's way into servers and workstations, first usable RISK-V HW is out, finally decided MIPS to open license their cores too. I'm sometimes daydreaming that I would take aFrankenstein with pieces borrowed from NetBSD and such but I'm sure it can be done.

@@pfackaIRIX was very special system. It had what no other OS had: scalability. Linux 2.6 kernel and scalability (hello fine grain locking, goodbye big kernel lock) - thank for that to SGI. Try to find anything comparable which doesn't have SGI roots. You know, scaling OS as single system image to 512 or even 1024 CPUs. ccNUMA? SGI made working systems with all OS jazz (allocation of "near" memory, scheduler aware of NUMA etc) to make it really usable and scalable. You can check IRIX 6.5 source code for details if you like.

maxx controversy?

@@detecta Where's the source code to MaXX? What "special license" to use the IRIX sources (claims to be from HPE, but, does that really line up?)? Where's the source to the modified version of ROX-Filer? Why is he actually violating his license he supposedly signed with SGI and running it on FreeBSD? He claimed to be changing the license to the BSD license, but, the IRIX sources are full of third-party copyrights (though Sun managed to pull it off in a quick fashion). The whole thing is filled with weirdness...

you're the only mx linux user i've seen other than runwiththedolphin holy hell

But if you want to, you could combine this with paru, a modern AUR helper (don't recommend yay anymore, it's not maintained anymore, the creators have long moved on to making paru instead) to compile and install packages easier from the AUR that have no binary versions in the Chaotic AUR repositories, and then you finally got that ultimate AUR setup to run software from it.

Sometimes the regular AUR has -bin packages

I've been looking into it actually! I found a computer recently that has native support for the much less popular OS/2 Warp 3, it's just a pain to record being passive matrix so no promises I'll get it done soon, def on the list tho ;3

@@WindowsG Best of luck! I'm looking forward to it. Warp 3 can be tricky.

@@WindowsG Maybe OS/2 in a VM? Then just screen cap.

having the same problem

@@boobietm2880 what I did I went to the maxxdestop site followed theme instalation tutorial and managed to make it work i think is straitfoward

what's funny is no one is acknowledging this issue anywhere lol, so the OS isn't usable

N64 games were developed on Indy with special card. Interactive movies in mid 1990s were done on Indigo 2s.

If it's anywhere near Arch and you have a capable hardware - I don't remember default steam package causing any problems for me (X11, nvidia 1660 SUPER). I believe your GPU must have drivers that actually support any relatively recent Vulkan API and extensions and there is no way around it. If it's an old ThinkPad - don't even bother trying. I learned that there is just no way around poor hardware/driver support.

@@araarathisyomama787 I tried lots of stuff but nothing worked due to incompatibilities with X11 and the drivers, I'm pretty dumb at Linux so a guide would help a lot.

neco arc >:3

Aw'ight, thx @@WindowsG

buy me a 3gs and I'll look into it