From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 13 03:35:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7C4016A4D0 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 03:35:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A14243D1D for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 03:35:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) id i5D3YPl1063904; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 22:34:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 22:34:24 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: arden Message-ID: <20040613033424.GB94119@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1087062144.3487.7.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1087062144.3487.7.camel@localhost> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: aix X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 03:35:11 -0000 In the last episode (Jun 12), arden said: > my company is sending me on an aix/rs6000 course next month Ive been > using Linux as my main OS for 2 years (thats when M$ went for good > from my home :) )and been "playing" with BSD for about 6 months > > are there any fundamental differences i should be aware of before > admitting any knowledge of *nix AIX feels sort of like Microsoft's "Windows Services for UNIX" package from my perspective. Most of the commands you will want to use work, but they're sort of on top of something that's not standard Unix at all. It doesn't use syslog, for example; it uses a binary log you must run "errpt" to read. Memory management is difficult to tune as well (and you will need to tune it almost immediately). There's an rc.d directory, but it's only used for 3rd-party apps; none of the AIX packages use it. After using AIX, I realize why IBM is pushing Linux so much. In other words, Unix knowledge will help, but not as much as it might for other Unix-like systems. Pay attention at the course :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com