Subject: Re: New user + Question on SGI O2
To: GCS <gcs@agentsinside.com>
From: Soren S. Jorvang <soren@wheel.dk>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 02/16/2001 21:07:57
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 02:24:04PM +0100, GCS wrote:
>  I am a new user and a system administrator on some O2. I would like to ask
> if any of you use SGI O2 with NetBSD here. I consider to switch from Irix,
> but I want to be sure that it is at least somewhat stable, and you can run
> X Window sessions on it. I have a lot of users (around 1200), and they study
> informatics at the university; so some of them also would like to break into
> the system just to prove their skills. With Irix they can sometimes even if
> we have all the patches etc.

I think we do reasonably well on the security side, but note that
sgimips so far only barely runs on the O2 and only R5K models at
that, so for your application it's not at all ready.


-- 
Soren