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Operating Systems AIX Beginner's questions about AIX (6.1) Post 302520642 by bakunin on Sunday 8th of May 2011 09:58:34 PM

05-08-2011

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1. is the SMS (system management services) part of AIX?

No. It's part of what would be called "BIOS" on a PC.

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2. How picky is AIX about hardware?

Quite picky. The hardware itself is not the problem, the machines are quite common PCI-based CHRP systems, but you will have a hard tme finding a manufacturer who provides AIX drivers for his hardware. In your example: get Matrox to provide an AIX driver for their G400 and you would be up and running in no time. Unfortunately they can't be bothered.

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3. I would like to use it as a workstation hence would love to have KDE running.

Search IBMs "Linux Toolbox for AIX" and download KDE from there. You may have to install the "rpm" package manager before.

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The same when I try to install Gnome.

see above.

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4. I installed AIX through the serial console and now when the system boots the GUI login screen is not shown until I login through the serial console.

See the (manpage of the) command "dtconfig".

I hope this helps.

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