The Irix OS

Helpful Irix links and info

In a press release on 6th September 2006, SGI announced the end of the MIPS/IRIX line. Production will end on 29th December 2006 and the last orders will be fulfilled by March 2007. Support for these products will end no sooner than December 2013

• SGI home page and Irix Overview
  
  
• Wikipedia says: IRIX is a System V-based Unix computer operating system with BSD extensions developed by Silicon Graphics (SGI) to run natively on their 32- and 64-bit MIPS architecture workstations and servers...
  
  
• SGI's Irix freeware page
  open source and freeware packages built and inst-packaged for IRIX® 6.5.
  
  
• SGI Developers Central for IRIX
  
  
• Majix's Obsolete IRIX Administration Guide
  
  
• IRIX summary by OSdata.com
  
  
• Irix desktop screenshots
  
  
• Some tools available for Irix
  
  
• Installing Irix 6.5 (old)

Irix Books on Amazon:

• Essential System Administration, Third Edition - Essential System Administration,3rd Edition is the definitive guide for Unix system administration, covering all the fundamental and essential tasks required to run such divergent Unix systems as AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Tru64 and more... This second edition has been updated for the latest versions of all major UNIX platforms, including SunOS 4.1, Solaris 2.4, AIX 4.1, Linux 1.1, Digital UNIX, OSF/1, SCO UNIX version 3, HP/UX versions 9 and 10, and IRIX version 6.
  
  
• Unix administration : AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, Solaris, Tru64, UnixWare