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Operating Systems AIX Learning AIX from zero. Post 302665483 by bakunin on Monday 2nd of July 2012 04:44:23 PM

07-02-2012

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R/6000 servers are an old technology already and you will only be able to run AIX5.2 (or earlier) on most of them - on some not even that. IBM dropped the support of the R/6000 hardware with AIX 5.2. As AIX5.3 has gone out of support these days it is not a good idea to try to learn on such an old system even if you could get one.

The modern hardware is the "pSeries" and can be bought second-hand and is relatively inexpensive. It is still pricey, compared to the sacrificial PC one needs to start with Linux, but it comes with built-in virtualisation support, a OS license and even the smallest system works exactly the same way a bigger system will.

Up to date no emulator for pSeries hardware is known and therefore you absolutely need IBM hardware to run AIX. There is no way around that.

I hope this helps.

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NAME

       network-admin - Network Administration Tool

SYNOPSIS

       network-admin [OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION

       network-admin is part of the GNOME system tools, a set of tools to easily access and manage system configuration.

       network-admin allows you to specify the way your system connects to other computers and to the Internet.

OPTIONS

       --display=DISPLAY
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       network-admin also accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options.

AUTHORS

       network-admin was written by Carlos Garnacho Parro <garnacho@tuxerver.net> and others.

       This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO

       services-admin(1), shares-admin(1), time-admin(1), users-admin(1), gtk-options(7), gnome-options(7)

       The online documentation available through the program's Help menu.

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