Irix is a 'System V' system too, like Solaris. If you have worked on 
Solaris, you can manage much of irix. But, as always proprietary unix 
systems tend to emerge slowly to become a beast of their own, they could 
be totally different in some aspects. It has a fantastic front-end. Of 
course, I worked on it long time back (5-6 years back).

 Did they make it open source now? I should check it out.

Cheers!
Sundar



Craig S. wrote:

> I have been looking at the irix os lately and was wondering what the 
> learning curve is for someone who is competent configuring/using *nix. 
> I have no experience with system v and the unix platforms I have 
> worked with in the past are Solaris 4.x and HP-UX 9.0. With slackware 
> I have managed to expand my sphere of *nix knowledge to BSD type 
> platforms. Ok, by now most reading this are going BFD. I am just 
> hoping that someone might have a little background with irix, mainly 
> because I job that I am looking at applying for is requesting someone 
> familiar with irix and I don't want to look stupid if I get called for 
> an interview. I am reading up irix and since I believe it is open 
> source am thinking about installing it to get a look and feel for the 
> os but am hoping for live experiences with the os. Because this topic 
> is out of step with the group discussion feel free to e-mail me 
> privately on this topic if you wish.
>
> thanks,
> Craig S.
>
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