Silicon
Graphics (SGI) software & hardware
This page
was written by Christopher Spry.
Resources at 'SGI Europe' which mirror the
US resources:
Silicon Graphics Inc. and UK home page.
SGI Security Headquarters,
information. Download SGI security patches from the ftp server (which is most current) or the HTML server.
'Silicon Campus', outline of SGI
hardware and software for educational institutions.
SGI product information:
hardware and software
'Periodic Table' SGI
products in table format, revised February 14, 1996 but still useful.
'Indy' product information.
'O2' computers.
Software
lists, SGI.
HTMLDOC.
An IRIX command-line utility for generating HTML, PostScript, and PDF files from HTML
"source" files.
All software applications
registered at SGI
IRIX connectivity with PCs and
Macs: PPP, POP3 etc.
IRIX software,
purchase or evaluation software.
European and US web sites to request software
licenses for SGI products. Permanent, evaluation, emergency and beta licenses can be
issued, providing you have a 'SurfZone' username and password (see below). Alternatively,
send an 'empty' email to keyo@memphis.corp.sgi.com
with the title 'template request' to receive information on how to request licenses by
email.
Search for software to run on SGI
systems.
'SurfZone' Software and software
support facilities.
'Varsity' updates and information about software
at SGI.
'Varsity'
developer packages, contacts listing and information. Leeds University server.
SGI 'recommended
patches' at Leeds UK server. Registration is not required for UK academics.
'Supportfolio
Online', support and 'recommended patch sets' at SGI,
California. Security patches listed by computer type in 'tardist' format. You have to be registered on SurfZone to download them.
SurfZone membership details.
SGI Freeware at ftp://freeware.sgi.com/index.html with
about 150 packages, including GNU utilitiess, emacs, xemacs, rsync, elm, pine, tin, vim,
samba and gnuplot.
Freeware software CDs 1 & 2
for IRIX from SGI. Includes Perl etc. It contains 'inst' images.
Games to play on SGI computers
under IRIX 6.2: Quake, Minesweeper, Mancala, Battalion, Hacknoid, Build Your Own Dream
Car, Iko, Timewarp, Lumbus, Inventor Games, Connect, Centipedo.
'Pipeline', Silicon
Graphics 'Supportfolio' newsletter. Needs a password. 'IRIS On-Line' SGI
general newsletters.
Archives
of 'comp.sys.sgi' newsgroups, SGI WAIS server, Switzerland.
Archives of the SGI
newsgroups from 1988 to the present, USA.
Data mining software the
SGI MineSet toolsuite.
Java Development Kit for IRIX 5.3,
6.2, 6.3, and 6.4.
Free software for IRIX: Berkeley db,
top-3.4+, xemacs-20.4, gcc-2.7.2.2, strace-3.1, pine-3.96, imap-4.1, tin-1.4,
fetchmail-4.3.2, cdrecord-1.5 and mkisofs-1.1.
SGI.general.store: clothes, hats
etc.
SGI resources at non-SGI sites:
Download notes about administering IRIX
workstations 'Showcase' format. Indiana University.
'asWedit' HTML and text
editor for X Window System and Motif.
'SANTIS' Analysis of signals and
time series data, Laboratory of Biomedical Systems Analysis, Institute of Physiology,
University of Aachen, Germany.
'i3D' A high-speed 3D scene viewer for
IRIX integrated with Mosaic & Netscape.
'Speak
Freely' internet voice communications for windows & UNIX This is the IRIX 5.3 INST
version.
'Amazon Paint' Film and video
'paint' system software for SGI workstations.
Iomega 'Zip' and 'Jaz' drive under IRIX.
Advice and information at TAMU and older advice
at UMN.
'Inst' software for IRIX, by Mat Wessel, University of
Twente, Enschede, Holland. Public domain software for IRIX in 'inst' format for easy
installation in IRIX: Including: Internet Voice Chat, 'mbone'
tools, Programming tools and compilers, Graphics Draw and graphics tools, libpng.a libz.a
libtiff.a, Xftp, Xdir, Samba, Xmgr Spell, netscape dictionaries, XEmacs, Network
Security and encrypting tools, 'Sniffit'
network sniffing program, Xpilot, pkzip, popclient2.5, xmol1.3.1 etc.
IRIX software at Brookhaven.
'xntpd',
ntp time servers, ntp FAQ and time links.
'INN' NNTP Usenet news server
software for IRIX and other operating systems. Robert Keller's page. INN 'FAQ'. Joe Greco's INN patch page, installation notes and
information. FAQ for
'Config' files. Generic INN 1.7
released 16 Oct 1997 and INN Patch Cluster.
'Squid',
proxy server software for UNIX including IRIX with UK download site.
Netscape's Communicator v 4.04 for IRIX
6.2. Download from HENSA,
UK.
IRC , 'Zircon' at Newcastle
University X-Windows client program.
C++ online course, MIT.
UNIX Guru
Universe Links and software for UNIX computers.
HENSA/Unix
archive, University of Kent at Canterbury.
UNIX help
resource, Edinburgh.
UNIX User Group (UKUUG), Birkbeck
College.
X-Windows v11r6 for UNIX.
Ethernet technology.
TeX word-processing.
Download LaTeX from Germany and
read the installation guide
for IRIX.
'exim' mail client
replacement for 'mediamail' based on 'smail', Cambridge.
Install and use Cyrillic fonts in X Windows -
Russian etc.
Xing's 'StreamWorks' audio for
IRIX download site included.
'Cosmo Player VRML' 2.0 browser for
Windows95, Windows NT, and IRIX. from Silicon Graphics.
ftp gnu binaries, Imperial College,
London.
ftp GNU program for IRIX 5.3 gcc & make.
Bill Henderson's list of FTP Sites
containing public domain software for IRIX.
SGI software FTP
resources Germany.
IRIX
binaries at binaries.org.
MIPS Web
server, USA.
PERL for IRIX Perl5 by Larry
Wall. 'Inst' version on the SGI Reality server.
Free SGI graphics software
resources & links, Canada.
IBD's
collection of software for SGI computers.
IBD's collection of software
for IRIX 5.3.
DOOM on SGI ftp source.
Unix Cockpit Pro for SGI.
Postgres95 relational database
for UNIX.
SGI software Excellent
large list of SGI software available by FTP, compiled by Bill Henderson of Silicon
Graphics.
SGI
software A small amount of SGI software on our local ftp server.
'SGI
technical resources centre', European site, by Ian Mapleson, University of Central
Lancashire, UK. Information and links on SGI hardware and IRIX.
Setting up modem slip/ppp on SGI computers,
Scott Henry's way.
Setting up PPP on an
Indy (host) & Windows95 (client), Christopher Spry's way.
Setting up PPP with a US
Robotics 28.8 modem, Stewart Priest's way.
Setting up PPP client program on Windows95 to
access a PPP server.
Clone or
backup an Indy's system disk. To provide a new bootable system disk. Christopher
Spry's script.
'Samba',
homesite, Canberra, Australia. Samba is probably the 'best' free nfs-like resource for
UNIX and Windows connectivity. Current 'Samba' binaries in 'tarinst' format for IRIX at SGI and Gorski.net. Samba source files at Imperial College,
London. Samba configuration help files.
Setting up password
encryption for Samba, Christopher Spry's way.
SGI
resources & IRIX patches at IBD, Canada.
Search SGI hardware WAIS
server.
SGI
software binaries at Vince Ligggio's server, mostly IRIX 5.2.
SGI Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
repository at TAMU, HTTP or ftp access and at MIT ftp access.
Atlanta
SGI SIG meta page Links to ftp sites, SGI 'FAQ' and more.
SGI usergroups world-wide list.
Audio and Music applications
for SGI computers Doug Cook, commercial, bundled and public domain.
Go to the 'home
page'
© cspry@sghms.ac.uk.
Department of Biochemistry & Immunology, St. George's Hospital Medical
School, London SW17 0RE, UK. Phone +44 20-8725 5819; fax +44 20-8725 5821.
This page was last updated on
10 December 2001 11:27:13.