[Irinikus]

Most, if not all of the software will have to be installed, but most of the decent software for these machines is freely available if you ask around and look in the right places.

Allot of the members here like to do network installs, I for one prefer to do it the old fashioned way using CD's, as it works for me.

As far as software for my machines goes, I generally use the secondary disks in my systems to store all of the install files and license files for the various software packages that I have installed, so should I need to re-install IRIX, I can quickly and easily re-install the software that I had installed on the system.