as doing bruteforce on passwd.

If I am not mistaken most IRIX installs do not have shadow installed (or even available to install)...

Standard passwd cracking progs should work just fine.

IRIX has some benefits on the hardware over Linux... it uses it a bit better.

I use Cygwin/Xfree86 from Windows for everything X related. Few little anomalies... but most are "Video Driver" related (read as nVidia).

Iffn you need a good sock it to me... lemme know. I can show thee thine way through the forest, tree by tree.