[SLUG] SGI Octane-> Linux?

[Jasper Streit <jasperstreit@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was wasting time on ebay today (as you do) and stumbled across this 
australian crowd selling some nice SGI octane boxes at around 
AU$2000(for the 400Mhz) and felt the urge to spend. I'm curious to see 
just how effective these enormously expensive beasts are- after all, 
the one i am looking at in particular comes with a really nice sound 
setup.
A little google research on linux running on the octanes, there was a 
lot of mixed reports of the success or impossibility of running such a 
machine. very confusing.
Basically i was just wondering if anybody on this list runs a MIPS box 
with any success?
Am i simply mad or is there a world of computing possibility out 
there???

Cheers,
Jasper