My .02... make that .015...
It all depends. What skills will you be expected to teach? To a user,
especially a beginning user, the shell and/or window manager will matter a
whole lot more than the flavor of OS underneath. If you're teaching on a
Linux box with bash as the shell, and enlightenment, WindowMaker or FVWM as
the GUI, they will definitely have a shock when they sit down in front of an
AIX box running (EEK!) sh and (BLEAH!) CDE.
As for locating a "close cousin" to AIX, properly speaking I don't think
there's any such thing. AIX was implemented from scratch in-house by IBM
during the Unix Wars, and while it most closely resembles System V-derived
systems (like SCO, Solaris, HP-UX), it shares virtually no code with any of
them, beyond applications like CDE that ship with all of the above OS's.
If they'll have the liberty of installing their own user tools on the AIX
boxen, you could teach them how to find and install the basic GNU tools (like
a usable shell, for starters), and then spend the rest of your time teaching
them how to use bash or tcsh and basic X, but asking a Unix newbie to get
started by installing their own shell is asking a bit much.
Good luck.
-m
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 09:20:04PM +0200, Robert Friberg wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> I'm teaching unix basics for beginners next week.
> We will most likely be working with RH6.x during the
> course, but at their company they use AIX. Is there any
> other Linux that is more similar to AIX than RH ?
>
> I need to rapidly get aquainted with AIX, so any pointers
> are greatly appreciated.
>
> regards,
> --
> robert friberg, ensofus ab
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