Welcome to the home of the MaXX Interactive Desktop Community


What is it ?

The MaXX Interactive Desktop a.k.a. The MaXX Desktop is the continuation of the 5dwm.org implementation released a few years back. So don’t be mistaken, there is only one implementation of the SGI Desktop on Linux. The MaXX Interactive Desktop is the little brother of the great SGI Desktop found on IRIX systems!

Our goals for the MaXX Desktop are to;

  • provide an equivalent (better and very modern in many cases) IRIX user experience on Linux
  • offer a high performance workstation class desktop environment
  • minimizing staff training
  • offer a consistent User Interface between IRIX and Linux
  • offering a nice modern platform for porting IRIX applications
  • leverage existing investment in SGI specific software developments
  • offer ultimately a smooth migration path from IRIX to Linux

News

* The official DR4 release is in June 2010.

* Incremental DR4 components will be made available for testing starting this weekend (Jun 04 2010)

* We have moved to our new infrastructure.. We are back home at last.

  • MaXX Interactive Desktop has reached DR3 final on 01.08.2009
  • Documentation section up and growing fast
  • Source code available from the community SVN

Getting Started

The Community

To discuss with others, exchange success stories or you run into a problem or you wish to contribute, please visit our various sites

MaXX has an official IRC channel: #maxx on the Freenode network.