[geeks] And The Linux Weenies Wonder Why They Aren't Mainstream...

[Nick B.]

I'm going to have to say, If You Want A Mainframe, Buy A Mainframe.  If you 
call it unix, make it at least vaguely resemble Unix, don't just take your
mainframe OS and hook a few standard unix commands into it.  Oh, also, don't
enable telnet and ftp by default, and don't make it pure torture to install
SSH.  Oh yeah, we're past the 90s.  df -h and du -h should just work.  It's not
that hard.  I can explain how to make it work in a few minutes.  Really.

Now not to say it's not an intresting OS, I've been having quite a bit of fun
learning it, it's quirks and the intresting capabilites of the Power5 hardware.
Just don't call it "UNIX" much less "good UNIX" and expect me not to giggle.
	Nick
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 12:14:03AM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Nick B. wrote:
> 
> > As someone who now has to maintain AIX, I think your sigline explains
> > your attraction to AIX.
> 
> I had the joy of maintaining AIX for nearly three years.  All I can say
> is that different folks enjoy different things.  I'd never seen an OS
> put together so well, but it's definitely IBM-weird.
> 
> -- 
> Jonathan Patschke    )   "Pain and misery always hit the spot,
> Elgin, TX           (     knowing you can't lose what you haven't got."
> USA                  )                         --Depeche Mode, "Lilian"
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