IRIX

From: Dan Wright <dtwright_at_uiuc.edu>
Date: Thu Apr 25 11:16:00 2002

Tarsi said:
> Just from personal experience:
>
> My college used to have a rather large lab of SGI INDYs running IRIX 5.X and
> they were horribly insecure. They were all hard-routed to the 'net, static
> IPs and everything, and were constantly being hacked. We eventually took
> them off the main line and put them behind a Linux firewall due to the
> nastiness of it all. I highly recommend not leaving IRIX-based machines
> sitting out in the cold unless you're VERY good at IRIX.

Yeah, pretty much. Also, don't use IRIX 5.x if you can avoid it; it has
HORRIBLE security problems, and as it's not suppored any more (and hasn't been
for quite a while) you won't get any updates to fix the problems...

Though, I think any machines that are truly on-topic wouldn't be able to run
IRIX 6.5 anyway ;)

- Dan Wright
(dtwright_at_uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)

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