Irix was the operating system developed by Silicon Graphics from 1988 to 1998. The OS supported the company’s high-end workstations and served in many serious roles. The company cut off support for ...

Silicon Graphics (SGI) machines running the Apache Web server on SGI's IRIX operating system are vulnerable to attack by hackers, who may be able to gain administrator-level access, the company has ...

Unix is one of the IT world’s few living legends. It has been in continuous use since its birth in 1969, and its storied past is like that of a nation: Inept rulers brought it to the brink of ruin, a ...

Silicon Graphics will phase out its Irix operating system and the MIPS chip-based computers the Unix variant runs on at the end of the year, 18 years after the once-vaunted computing company ...

High-end computer maker Silicon Graphics Inc. is in line to become the next target of Linux opponent SCO Group, with the controversial software seller threatening to revoke SGI's Unix license. "We ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Weta Digital used SGI's IRIX OS-based Silicon Graphics Octane visual workstations, Silicon ...

Silicon Graphics Inc. is the latest technology company to be dragged into The SCO Group Inc.’s dispute over the Linux operating system. In an Aug. 13 letter addressed to SGI’s legal department and ...