Network World Fusion: Grass-roots effort pulls SGI toward Linux | Linux Today

Network World Fusion: Grass-roots effort pulls SGI toward Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 18, 1999

Thanks to Leo Comitale for
this link.

“programmers inside and outside the company have been banging
away, bringing the free, open source operating system to an array
of SGI server and workstation”

“SGI seems to be making all the right Linux moves, but the
company is reluctant to talk about them. In fact, SGI seems oddly
defensive, and sometimes ambivalent, about its Linux efforts.”

“The company has worked for two and a half years with Microsoft
on high-end graphics, and a bold Linux pronouncement could
jeopardize that relationship, some observers say.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

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