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Off Topic => General => Topic started by: jeffs42885 on January 29, 2013, 11:19:06 AM

Title: Linux Similar to AIX
Post by: jeffs42885 on January 29, 2013, 11:19:06 AM

Other then buying an old IBM Power server and running AIX, is anyone aware of a distro of Linux that is similar in nature to AIX?

Title: Re: Linux Similar to AIX
Post by: Justin Derrick on January 30, 2013, 03:09:43 AM

CMOD is the same on any of the UNIX/Linux platforms.  AIX is very similar to other UNIXes, but package management and storage a quite different.  Even though Linux now has the concept of Logical Volume Management, it's implementation is different.

For most of my development work, I use Linux in a VMware virtual machine on my laptop.  But I also have a pSeries server here for when I need to do development work and testing specifically on AIX.

Title: Re: Linux Similar to AIX
Post by: jeffs42885 on January 30, 2013, 02:26:02 PM

Yeah, thats what I was told. JD- What version do you think would be a good starting point I could toss on my VMWARE on my pc.

Title: Re: Linux Similar to AIX
Post by: Justin Derrick on January 31, 2013, 03:11:16 AM

Any of the supported Linuxes is fine.  RedHat is popular, but they charge for access to binaries.  CentOS is a freely-available clone of RedHat, and works great with CMOD:
    http://www.CentOS.org/

-JD.

Title: Re: Linux Similar to AIX
Post by: Alessandro Perucchi on February 05, 2013, 06:39:14 AM

I use personally Fedora, which is also an offspring of RedHat...

Sincerely yours,
Alessandro