On 21:35:58 May 31, Shrinivasan T wrote: > Hi, > > Today, I was talking with a Unix(AIX) guy. > > He told me that AIX and Mainframe are the big Unixes. > Linux is like a small kid. > > He told that Mainframe is like a whale, AIX is like Elephant and Linux is > like Pet Dog. > They have their own biggest strengths. Linux can not even touch the heights > of them. > > I refused him. > But he told that "You know only Linux. You never know AIX or Mainframe. Know > them and tell". >
You guys definitely have a penchant for such useless political discussions. ;) They are not totally useless though. I love politics as well as long as it leads to an enhanced understanding. It is only when we mix emotions and lose the technical angle that I get pissed. Anyway I have worked on Solaris and AIX too. Solaris was good. Boring but nice. I didn't have any nasty surprises with it. The kernel was not open source of course but I never ran into any bug. All the BSDs are part derived from Solaris and even present day's audio(4) framework in OpenBSD is based on Solaris. Some parts are interesting but mostly boring. I used to have a spare machine to play with and I had FreeBSD installed in that. I am talking about 2002 and I used to program first in FreeBSD and then deploy in Solaris. No problems. I had a brief encounter with AIX. I was definitely unhappy with it. It is old, broken and stupid like the other IBM stuff.;) As to linux being a kid, well that is true. If any of you read the source code of linux and OpenBSD kernel you can conclude yourself. But most people cannot read source code. That is the problem. They go by external appearances and jazz. If that is what you want, then stick to linux. But this one takes the cake. The other day even after telling someone that I was an OpenBSD enthusiast or something, someone gave me this advice. "Did you try Ubuntu?" "No." "Then you should definitely try it." I didn't know what to say. -Girish _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
