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Date: 2002-11-28 14:26:13
From "Steve Scotten "
Subject: SMIT (was: Re: So... whaddya got?)
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 06:58:59PM +0100, Stefan Tibus wrote: > And there I was, fascinated about AIX, how easy it's been > to install it and how easy administration was using SMIT > compared to most things I've seen on Linux and Solaris. Yeah, for all the static I get from my Linux using friends about how weird AIX is, I've found it to be really straightforward, and SMIT is just one example of that. A friend of mine called AIX "Unix from Mars". I'm imagining the tough-as-nails god of War fending off threats and remaining on top of the heap! =^) One thing that upsets me is IBM's apparant wish to move to RPM as the software package manager for AIX. I appreciate how that makes AIX friendly to Linux users, but I don't know what the point of having two package managers on a system is, if one can't check the other for dependencies. If I have Perl installed through SMIT/installp, RPM will never know about it. Does AIX 5.x use RPM exclusively? I'd guess not since Bull's site lists their .bff files as being for 4.3 or 5.1. -- Steven M. Scotten <s@p90.net>
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