IRIX is the UNIX System V-based Unix Operating System with Berkeley Software Distribution extensions developed by Silicon Graphics (SGI) to run natively on their 32 and 64-bit MIPS architecture workstations and servers. As a result of its Unix underpinnings, it is capable of extremely long uptime, and its XFS filesystem is regarded to be one of the most advanced journaling file systems in the industry. IRIX has particularly strong support for 3D graphics, video and high-bandwidth bulk data transfer. IRIX was one of the first Unix flavors to feature a GUI for the main desktop environment, and is widely used in the computer animation industry and for scientific visualization due to its extremely high 3D graphics performance. IRIX uses the IRIX Interactive Desktop with its default 4dwm X window manager and Motif (widget toolkit) widget toolkit. The current major version of IRIX is IRIX 6.5. New minor versions are released every quarter. Up to and including Version 6.5.22, there were two branches of each release: a maintenance release that includes only fixes to the original IRIX 6.5 code, and a feature release that includes improvements and enhancements. As of February 2005, the current minor version of IRIX is IRIX 6.5.27. Rumors abound that SGI plans to end-of-life it along with MIPS architecture in favor of Linux on Itanium, but SGI engineers on Usenet have stated this will not happen any time soon. ==External links== * [http://www.sgi.com/products/software/irix/ Overview of information related to the IRIX operating system] * [http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/init.cgi Technical Publications Library] * [http://www.sgi.com/products/software/irix/datasheet.pdf IRIX Datasheet] * [http://software.majix.org/irix/index.shtml IRIX Administration Guide] Unix
First paragraph says it's sysv based, second says it's bsd based. Really, the old versios were bsd IIRC but at least from 6.x on they have been sysv. This is the common way, not an exceptional one. User:Blades IRIX has always been based on SysV, at least as long as the version history in SGIs SCM reaches back (3.x). IRIX4 was SVR4, IRIX5 half-heartedly merged with SVR4 and IRIX6 was the 64bit-ready release. I think the confusion that it's BSD-based comes from the fact that IRIX actually uses BSD networking (aka sockets) in preference over STREAMS unlike most SysV-derivates. Also over the time basically all internals have been become extremly uniqueue and unlike any other Unix. Well, not sure whether I should simply drop that into the mainpage, I'll better leave that to a more fluent native speaker ;-) -- hch@lst.de :Sounds quite possible. It would be nice to have the correct informations here. *grumble* BSD hippies trying to take all the credit ;) --User:Blades 18:35, May 8, 2004 (UTC) == "rumors abound" == ''Rumors abound ...'' is not encylopedic. That paragraph should be removed. User:69.143.133.51 19:38, 5 May 2005 (UTC) (User:Avriette)
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IRIX is the UNIX System V-based Unix Operating System with Berkeley Software Distribution extensions developed by Silicon Graphics (SGI) to run natively on their 32 and 64-bit MIPS architecture workstations and servers. As a result of its Unix underpinnings, it is capable of extremely long uptime, and its XFS filesystem is regarded to be one of the most advanced journaling file systems in the industry. IRIX has particularly strong support for 3D graphics, video and high-bandwidth bulk data transfer. IRIX was one of the first Unix flavors to feature a GUI for the main desktop environment, and is widely used in the computer animation industry and for scientific visualization due to its extremely high 3D graphics performance. IRIX uses the IRIX Interactive Desktop with its default 4dwm X window manager and Motif (widget toolkit) widget toolkit. The current major version of IRIX is IRIX 6.5. New minor versions are released every quarter. Up to and including Version 6.5.22, there were two branches of each release: a maintenance release that includes only fixes to the original IRIX 6.5 code, and a feature release that includes improvements and enhancements. As of February 2005, the current minor version of IRIX is IRIX 6.5.27. Rumors abound that SGI plans to end-of-life it along with MIPS architecture in favor of Linux on Itanium, but SGI engineers on Usenet have stated this will not happen any time soon. ==External links== * [http://www.sgi.com/products/software/irix/ Overview of information related to the IRIX operating system] * [http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/init.cgi Technical Publications Library] * [http://www.sgi.com/products/software/irix/datasheet.pdf IRIX Datasheet] * [http://software.majix.org/irix/index.shtml IRIX Administration Guide] Unix
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First paragraph says it's sysv based, second says it's bsd based. Really, the old versios were bsd IIRC but at least from 6.x on they have been sysv. This is the common way, not an exceptional one. User:Blades IRIX has always been based on SysV, at least as long as the version history in SGIs SCM reaches back (3.x). IRIX4 was SVR4, IRIX5 half-heartedly merged with SVR4 and IRIX6 was the 64bit-ready release. I think the confusion that it's BSD-based comes from the fact that IRIX actually uses BSD networking (aka sockets) in preference over STREAMS unlike most SysV-derivates. Also over the time basically all internals have been become extremly uniqueue and unlike any other Unix. Well, not sure whether I should simply drop that into the mainpage, I'll better leave that to a more fluent native speaker ;-) -- hch@lst.de :Sounds quite possible. It would be nice to have the correct informations here. *grumble* BSD hippies trying to take all the credit ;) --User:Blades 18:35, May 8, 2004 (UTC) == "rumors abound" == ''Rumors abound ...'' is not encylopedic. That paragraph should be removed. User:69.143.133.51 19:38, 5 May 2005 (UTC) (User:Avriette)
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