Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 14:56:18 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> To: jdn@qiv.com (Jay D. Nelson) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM/RS-6000 Message-ID: <199706172056.OAA21402@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970616184224.381A-100000@acp.qiv.com> from "Jay D. Nelson" at Jun 16, 97 07:03:55 pm
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On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Robert Heron wrote:
% I run FreeBSD on an Intel platform and probably will need to transfer
% the server into IBM RS-6000 43P-140 with AIX 4.2. Since differences
% between BSD and AIX are so big I consider setting up FreeBSD on RS-6000.
% Is there a version of FreeBSD for mentioned platform?
Jay D. Nelson replied:
> I don't think [Open,Net]BSD is an answer unless you're lucky. They only
> support PCI machines, which your 43P is, but I'm not sure IBM supports the
> OpenProm spec.
>
> AIX, however, is one of the most BSDish Unices out there. It shouldn't be
> that hard to make the switch. (The 42P is a nice box, BTW.)
I was going to leave this one alone, but now I just can't. AIX is an
ugly egregious barfluous mess, and sucks rocks in Texas. It is what
I'd imagine you get when you start with a perfectly ugly version of
UNIX, SVR2, and let a bunch of ex-mainframe goobers hack on it for 5
or 6 years to make it 'better.'
> Don't be alarmed when you find you both love _and_ hate AIX.
Don't be alarmed when you find yourself throwing your AIX machine off
the top of the building by way of quitting your job and moving to
more humane employment.
This from someone who was once sentenced to find a way programmatically
to determine if an AIX machine was operating 'securely.' I'd already
done it on 6 or 7 other variants of UNIX, mind you. The AIX version
took twice as long as creating the software initially on Ultrix and
SunOS did.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
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