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My SGI Octane! (self.retrocomputing)
submitted 1 year ago by praetor to c/retrocomputing

I turned my Octane into a bad ass workstation for cruising the deep web :D

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[-] Nisaea 6 points 1 year ago

Oh dear, the mushrooms in the background!!!! I think I still have that picture somewhere! :D

[-] praetor 5 points 1 year ago

AHAHA. Gotta have the digital blasphemy background for the late 90s vibe!

[-] Borgzilla@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I remember having this wallpaper back in the early 00s. Really cool wallpaper :)

[-] TOoSmOotH@derpzilla.net 5 points 1 year ago

I always wanted an Octane! WTG!

[-] Borgzilla@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Is there a way to browse SSL websites on this version of IRIX?

[-] praetor 5 points 1 year ago

Yup. We ported netsurf to IRIX a while ago which is a nice little browser that does SSL.

[-] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Is this what they call, SOUL? Looks pretty cool ngl

[-] praetor 4 points 1 year ago
[-] underscorner@feddit.it 4 points 1 year ago

awesome! are you running irix or linux ?

[-] praetor 4 points 1 year ago

IRIX of course :)

[-] esm 4 points 1 year ago
[-] praetor 8 points 1 year ago

NetSurf we ported it to IRIX a while ago :D

[-] attero@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago
[-] praetor 2 points 1 year ago

It's pretty skippy for a 20 year old machine. It's an octane 2 with a 400 Mhz processor.

[-] fnord 3 points 1 year ago

Looks nice! My old Octane has been sitting in its box since I sold my ex-ex-ex house in 2017. I know Nekochan is gone, so what’s the go-to place for software these days, Irixnet?

[-] praetor 3 points 1 year ago

SGUG is really the place https://SGI.sh

[-] zekyl314@derpzilla.net 3 points 1 year ago

That is sweet!

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