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Operating Systems AIX Some questions about Intellistation 285 and powervm Post 302885509 by bakunin on Monday 27th of January 2014 06:13:46 AM
Old 01-27-2014
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Originally Posted by Linusolaradm1
Some simple questions about Intellistation 285 and powervm.
I want to learn AIX,so i will buy an used I285 from ebay.
1)Will support aix 7.1?
Yes, probably. It is a POWER5+ system and should run AIX 7.1, but if it is able to do so in a supported manner is everybodies guess. Even if the hardware supports the OS it might need microcode (=firmware revisions) to do so and if this is available for such an old system for any OS revision is everybodies guess.

Having said this: i doubt that you will need 7.1 to learn AIX. Perhaps AIX 6.1 is quite sufficient for your purpose, the difference between 7.1 and 6.1 is - from the newcomers view - minimal. You will, for instance, not be able to do everything with WLPARs (workload partitions) in 6.1 which is possible in 7.1, but in practice WLPARs are not used anyway, because chroot-environments (even beautified ones, this, in fact, are WLPARs) are not really popular in the daily operations among admins.

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Originally Posted by Linusolaradm1
2)Is powervm avaliable?Where to download or buy it?
PowerVM is a licensed product. You need it if you want to do micropartitioning (simply speaking, allocate fractions of a CPU to a LPAR). The license is valid for a certain piece of hardware, therefore, if you need to license it or not will depend on the piece of hardware you buy. If you have to buy and deploy it the procedure is: you will get a download link, download the license file and apply it on (the firmware of) your system. Alas, i doubt that you will be able to buy a license for such a system, because it was withdrawn from the market in 2009.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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RAFKILL(6)							   Games Manual 							RAFKILL(6)

NAME
Rafkill - a vertical shoot'em-up SYNOPSIS
rafkill [ -l ] [ -w ] [ -g<speed> ] [ -h ] DESCRIPTION
Rafkill is a clone of Raptor: Call of the Shadows, a classic shoot'em-up game. You have a bird's eye view of the playing field, which is an alien world, and your job is to destroy the enemies that are flying towards you shooting bullets. The score lets you buy life, shield, better weapons or even new spaceships. Killing enemies gives you money, or score. If you kill a group of enemies, you might get a handy coin which gives you more score. There are other powerups, so look for them too. The score lets you buy more weapons and hull parts. There are 5 weapon groups and a few weapons in each group, but you can only have one weapon per group except for the accessory weapons in which you can have up to 3 weapons. Once you buy 3, you cannot buy any more. There are 3 hulls, which have each higher life and shield than the previous one and gives you access to a new set of weapons. Buying a new hull does not throw away your weapons, but it does throw away your accessory weapons. OPTIONS
-l run the game without displaying the background -w run the game in windowed mode instead of full screen -g<speed> run the game at a different speed (default is 40) -h, -help, --help display help message and exit KEYS
Left, Right, Up, Down move the ship across the screen Space or Enter fire the main weapon Alt switch between alternate weapons Esc return to the game menu AUTHOR
Rafkill was written by Jon Rafkind <workmin@ccs.neu.edu>. This manual page was written by Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). 24 April 2003 RAFKILL(6)
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