IRIX
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5recommend
0warn against
Nov 9, 2025first mention
May 12, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“IRIX 6.x had one of the most beautiful (and colourful) GUIs ever.”
“I have forgot how this interface is awesome”
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“IRIX was my daily driver”
ran a local ISP in the early 90son “Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Threads where it came up
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- The IRIX 6.5.7M (sgi) source code 1 mention
- The Nekonomicon – Nekochan.net Archive, Updated 1 mention
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All comments 11
“IRIX used the 4Dwm window manager”
“Some that I used that are gone”
“IRIX 6.x had one of the most beautiful (and colourful) GUIs ever.”
“I have forgot how this interface is awesome”
“I love the IRIX look”
“IRIX only supports about OpenGL 1.2”
“I'm not super interested in IRIX”
“I used the enhanced tcsh on Irix in the 90s.”
“IRIX was my daily driver”
There's a Linux version. https://docs.maxxinteractive.com/ I do not know of a single distro that includes it, but then, this may be because I think it's not 100% FOSS.
If you install EMWM and the goodies from the author's page you can get a very close system. Also, some guy at Nixers.net it's trying to recreate the whole Irix interface under EMWM. https://fastestcode.org/emwm.html Also if you want to program something in Motif: Motif prog. manual https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/motif/vol6a/Vol6a.pdf Motif reference manual https://www.ist.co.uk/motif/download/6B/6B_book.pdf For the