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Girish Venkatachalam | 1 Jun 2008 02:57
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Re: Compare Linux, AIX, Mainframe

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.
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Ravi Jaya | 1 Jun 2008 05:44
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Re: Compare Linux, AIX, Mainframe

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Girish Venkatachalam <
girishvenkatachalam@...> wrote:

> 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.
>

Yes Linux is a  kid, Super 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.
>
 Linux, Unix are the derivatives of POSIX. They are the rulers of their own
Kingdom. Comparing each is useless thought.
:)

>
> I refused him.
> But he told that "You know only Linux. You never know AIX or Mainframe.
Know
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Natarajan V | 1 Jun 2008 06:08
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Re: Compare Linux, AIX, Mainframe

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Girish Venkatachalam
<girishvenkatachalam@...> wrote:
> On 21:35:58 May 31, Shrinivasan T wrote:
>> 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".
>>

I have worked on AIX for about 3 or 4 years and on IBM Mainframes for
6 months extensively and passively for 3 years. Have worked on Solaris
too, but not extensively. I was never an administrator (even of sorts)
on these m/cs.

I agree that AIX and Mainframes are elephants. Big and bloated.

Speaking of AIX - I found them to be quite reliable physically. It
runs on IBM's own Power PC processors. Some of the parts of the OS
were optimized to work on the Power PC. (I had used a Quad Processor
Box).  We have successfully brought down the dev. server many times.
We once did a "kill -9 -l" or something like that, being root. We had
to physically restart the server (unclean shutdown). It worked
perfectly. It was stable enough - particularly the filesystem. Have
never had problems with that. Just that some one with root access kept
deleting our files though. and yes, we had problems with other teams.
A team from a different city used to do a xlC (IBM's C Compiler)
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Balu manyam | 1 Jun 2008 06:32
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Re: Compare Linux, AIX, Mainframe

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan@...>
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".
>
> I hope that he is wrong.
>
> As he said I know only linux.
>
> What do you think about it?
> Do anyone worked on the other unix systems?
>
> How linux is better with other unix systems?
>
> Thanks for your comments.
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K Mohan | 1 Jun 2008 06:39
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Re: Compare Linux, AIX, Mainframe

Balu manyam wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan@...>
> 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".
>>
>> I hope that he is wrong.
>>
>> As he said I know only linux.
>>
>> What do you think about it?
>> Do anyone worked on the other unix systems?
>>
>> How linux is better with other unix systems?
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Arun Khan | 1 Jun 2008 07:16
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Re: Compare Linux, AIX, Mainframe

On Sunday 01 Jun 2008, Ravi Jaya wrote:

>  Linux, Unix are the derivatives of POSIX. They are the rulers of

Yes, both are POSIX compliant but calling them derivates is a bit of a 
stretch.

To the best of my knowledge, "Bell Labs" Unix existed before POSIX.  
POSIX is an IEEE specification not an OS which came about to bring in 
standardization in the Unix variants.

--
Arun Khan 

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Shrinivasan T | 1 Jun 2008 07:27
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[உபுண்டு_தமிழ்] Party with Ubuntu

Friends.

Yesterday evening, Ubuntu Tamil Team arranged a Party at Woodlands.

Here is the snaps.
http://picasaweb.google.com/tshrinivasan/UbuntuParty

And here is the story.
http://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/party-with-ubuntu/

Thanks for ubuntu tamil team.

--
dear,
T.Shrinivasan


My experiences with Linux are here
http://goinggnu.wordpress.com

For Free and Open Source Jobs
http://fossjobs.wordpress.com

<div><p>Friends.<br><br>Yesterday evening, Ubuntu Tamil Team arranged a Party at Woodlands.<br><br>Here is the snaps.<br><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tshrinivasan/UbuntuParty">http://picasaweb.google.com/tshrinivasan/UbuntuParty</a><br><br>And here is the story.<br><a href="http://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/party-with-ubuntu/">http://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/party-with-ubuntu/</a><br><br>Thanks for ubuntu tamil team.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>
dear,<br>T.Shrinivasan<br><br><br>My experiences with Linux are here<br><a href="http://goinggnu.wordpress.com">http://goinggnu.wordpress.com</a><br><br>For Free and Open Source Jobs<br><a href="http://fossjobs.wordpress.com">http://fossjobs.wordpress.com</a></p></div>
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varun saini | 1 Jun 2008 10:14
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Training in Foss

hi
    This is Varun kumar doing mca.i just happened to see ur link abt foss
     training,i m very interested to make my future in foss .so please tell
me
     wht should i do to get ur training in foss.

     Regards
     varun kumar
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Hi
     I m doing mca from  KUK.I was searching some kind of training in foss
     and just happend to see ur link on Foss training.I m very interested to
make
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     so plz guide me how  ca n i get ur training .

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Re: MoU with AVIT for promoting FOSS

It is a great surprise to see this pleasurable information. Im a First year AVITian studying Computer
Science Engineering, im eagerly looking forward to participate in this sessions. Please let me know if
you need any help from me and my friends.

support@... wrote: Dear LUG Members,

Towards our achievement of promoting FOSS in education, yesterday LinuXpert Systems
and Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology (AVIT) of Vinayaka Missions University has signed
an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote GNU/Linux, Free Open Source softwares in the institution
from the current academic year.

Also proposed to conduct a two day FOSS seminar by first week of August and the date
will be finalised by second week of june.

The following topics has been planned for the two days programme.

Day-1:

1. Introduction to FOSS in education (by me)
2. Object Oriented and Visual Programming in Linux (python and qt)

Day-2:

3. Open source databases and Web programming (using LAMP architecture)
4. Embedded Systems and GNU Linux (preferably mobile related applications with demonstration)
5. Interactive session with students reg. academic projects and career opportunities

We are currently looking for resource persons from LUG-C to conduct topics of 2 to 4.

http://linuxbaskar.googlepages.com/avitmou.jpg

Regards

Baskar
CEO/LinuXpert Systems

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