On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:57 PM, ashraf mohammed <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi guys > i have some unix aix server at my office. those are production server @ > office. So i am unable to do much on that server > i want learn UNIX from the first. > i know that i can not install aix on my home pc. So i want to know if i > install unix will that work (can i learn UNIX aix on UNIX server ). > and also if do not have any unix bootable cd. > any good link for unix bootable. > or best if any one of u guys have unix bootable cd & will be able to give me > the will also do > i can come to receive UNIX cd any where in mumbai if u have any Hi Ashraf, It would be safe to say that today, there is no such thing as "Unix". You will not get a "Unix" CD anywhere. What you will get are CDs of operating systems that are *adapted* from Unix. These operating systems belong to the Unix family. Of these the ones you can install at home are: BSD OpenBSD FreeBSD NetBSD OpenSolaris MAC OS (needs Apple hardware) And the ones you cannot install at home are: AIX (needs IBM Power hardware) HP-UX (needs HP Itanium hardware) Solaris (needs Sun SPARC hardware) There are lots more to the lists above, but I included only the ones that are primarily used in the industry today. Note that Linux has no source code common to Unix. It is Unix-like, but not Unix. Coming to your question of learning AIX, I'm afraid there is no way to learn it except by practising on a non-prod box at your work place. Although basic unix commands (ls. cd, pwd, etc) are the same on AIX and Linux, AIX is very different from Linux in terms of volume management, package installation, performance tuning, HA, etc. So you won't be able to learn AIX by learning Linux either. One option you have is to purchase (very cheap) an AIX shell account from any provider found by googling. They will create a user for you and you can play around but you won't get root access. Another option is to purchase a used lowest-end pSeries server for your hone use but that will be expensive. New ones costs approx Rs 1.5 lakhs, OS cost not included. As of today, there is no simulator or virtual software for AIX. Regards, NMK.
