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.