ok I made a boo-boo when I was reading about irix. A couple papers said 
irix is open source so I got excited and whizzed over to sgi.com to 
check out dnloading and installing irix, that is when I learned that 
irix itself is proprietary but there is a list of modules that can be 
dnloaded and installed and most of those are open source. I apologize 
for the misunderstanding. Oh and thanks for replying, I knew that when 
writing this e-mail that it has a very open ended response but I didn't 
know how else to word the message. Or perhaps it is just that not many 
here have experience with irix since it is a proprietary os.

Craig S.


> . 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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