IRIX is the System V based Unix Operating System with BSD extensions developed by SGI to run natively on their 32 and 64-bit MIPS architecture workstations and servers.Because 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. So it was one of the first Unix flavors to feature a GUI for the main desktop environment and is currently used widely due to extremely high performance 3D graphics, the computer animation industry and for scientific visualization.
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 Sep, 2004, the current minor version of IRIX is IRIX 6.5.25.
Rumors abound that SGI plans to end-of-life it along with MIPS, in favor of LinuxThis article is about Linux-based operating systems, GNU/Linux, and related topics. See Linux kernel for the kernel itself. See Linux (washing powder) for the Swiss brand of washing powder. Tux, a plump penguin, is the official Linux mascot Linux is the n on ItaniumIn computing, the Itanium is an IA-64 microprocessor developed jointly by Hewlett-Packard and Intel. The first version, code named Merced shipped in June 2001. Manufactured in a 180 nm process, it was offered at speeds of 733 and 800MHz, with a choice of but as confirmed by SGI engineers on UsenetUsenet or Unix User Network is a communications medium in which users read and post textual messages (called "articles") to a number of distributed newsgroups (incorrectly called bulletin boards because of their similarity for the unaware observer). The m, this will not happen any time soon.
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