[rescue] IBM RS/6000 3CT

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Kevin Loch wrote:

> >>And, to offend any AIX fans out there: any chance it'll run something
> >>other than AIX?
> >
> > No, but AIX tends to grow on you after a while.  It's quite feature-laden.
>
> Yes.  Nobody wants to get familiar with AIX, but those who
> have to generally learn to like it.  Just like the hardware,

It does have a little bit of a learning curve.

> it performs very well.  Don't expect everything to compile
> right out of the tarball though.  There is a good AIX freeware
> collection at http://www.bull.de/

I use the precompiled RPM's from ftp.software.ibm.com.  Completely
painless for open/freeware stuff.  I swear by the gnu version of df,
because I tend to do df -m a lot.

The hardware kicks all sorts of floating-point ass.
Peace...  Sridhar