SGI hosted the initial C++ STL documentation, as such I used to regularly visit their site, and also dive into Irix documentation dreaming of such systems.
I remember trying fsn back when everyone in our company used SGI computers.. and realized that in practice the 3D file manager is completely useless. In the movie they set it up so that it looked like you could navigate that way. Very cool. But nobody in our office tried it more than once.
You are of course correct. I also use XFS and not on Red Hat distros. That said, XFS is the default filesystem on RHEL since RHEL7 and I think it was the first major distribution to make that choice. Even today, both ext4 and btrfs are far more common choices.
Red Hat is probably the biggest contributor to XFS at this point as well.
I've wondered why MIPS didn't conquer the high and the low.
The difficulties of the instruction set might have had a hand.
https://www.jwhitham.org/2016/02/risc-instruction-sets-i-hav...
Before the advent of Mac OS X, Irix definitely had the best looking, most consistent and most usable GUI of any Unix system.
SGI hosted the initial C++ STL documentation, as such I used to regularly visit their site, and also dive into Irix documentation dreaming of such systems.
IRIX, it has to make a come back.
It's what they use in Jurassic Park.
The 3D file manager is fsn.
I remember trying fsn back when everyone in our company used SGI computers.. and realized that in practice the 3D file manager is completely useless. In the movie they set it up so that it looked like you could navigate that way. Very cool. But nobody in our office tried it more than once.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_System_Visualizer
Regular advertisement for my fork updated to Gtk+3 and core OpenGL 3 at https://github.com/jabl/fsv
Red Hat's XFS file system originally came from IRIX.
I haven't heard it being called "Red Hat's XFS". Silicon Graphics, when it was still a company, ported XFS to Linux and Linus accepted it.
I've been using XFS for a very long time, and I've never been on Red Hat on my own machines..
You are of course correct. I also use XFS and not on Red Hat distros. That said, XFS is the default filesystem on RHEL since RHEL7 and I think it was the first major distribution to make that choice. Even today, both ext4 and btrfs are far more common choices.
Red Hat is probably the biggest contributor to XFS at this point as well.
So, I kind of get the comment.
> That said, XFS is the default filesystem on RHEL since RHEL7
RHEL is quiet recent.
Linux itself is only nine years older than RHEL. I think you might be operating on a different scale of recency than most.