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Received: from ppsw3.cam.ac.uk (mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.38]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id AAA13747 for <executor@nacm.com>; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 00:40:34 -0700 Received: from mole.bio.cam.ac.uk by mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk with SMTP-CAM (XTPP8.1) as ppsw.cam.ac.uk; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 08:39:51 +0100 Received: from localhost by mole.bio.cam.ac.uk (931110.SGI/MDTG-V1.3@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk) id AA14371; Tue, 25 Apr 95 08:43:45 +0100 Message-Id: <9504250743.AA14371@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk> To: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: Executor/Linux Info In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Apr 1995 23:11:00." <199504250314.UAA09999@nacm.com> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 08:43:45 +0100 From: Tim Cutts <tjrc1@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk> Sender: owner-executor@nacm.com Precedence: bulk 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.