[SLUG] SGI Octane-> Linux?

2003-12-08 Thread Jasper Streit
I was wasting time on ebay today (as you do) and stumbled across this australian crowd selling some nice SGI octane boxes at around AU$2000(for the 400Mhz) and felt the urge to spend. I'm curious to see just how effective these enormously expensive beasts are- after all, the one i am looking at

[SLUG] SGI Octane-> Linux?

2003-12-09 Thread Dion
Maybe you could. But you certainly couldn't when these babies came out a number of years ago. As for the original question. I don't have an Octane, but I have had my eye on them including those sold on Ebay in Australia by networkr I think. Anyway as far as I have been able to reseach, you

Re: [SLUG] SGI Octane-> Linux?

2003-12-09 Thread Richard Neal
Give me $2k and I would build a kick arse AMD 64 bit machine On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 17:34, Jasper Streit wrote: > I was wasting time on ebay today (as you do) and stumbled across this > australian crowd selling some nice SGI octane boxes at around > AU$2000(for the 400Mhz) and felt the urge to s