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Operating Systems AIX A thing AIX would do it like no other Linux distro?
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Old 04-14-2009
I would say:

the ODM - a database that keeps track about every piece of hardware, software, firmware, driver, setting or anything else implemented on the server - and that perfectly cooperates with Smit/Smitty/WSMIT - system administration interfaces that can help system administrators to avoid big mistakes ...

VMM - a subsystem that manages memory memory usage and allocation

WLM - workload manager that allows you to move memory cpu and IO between applications

LVM containing JFS2, and scalable Volumegroups that allow you to create filesystems and volumegroups in sizes that no other OS will allow you to - and that lets you create and drop volumegroups, logical volumes, filesystems and disks on the fly - but still allows you to run other volumemanagers like VXVM in parallel if your application does require it

SRC - system resource controller - that provides you with an interface to manage and control your subsystems without any further manual intervention

SWVPD - software vital product data - keeps your software on track, manages versions, history, installable options of your software packages

and regarding hardware: the unique opportunity to run AIX, Linux and Mainframe on the same hardware and the same subset of virtualization

Rgds
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linux::distribution

Linux::Distribution(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				  Linux::Distribution(3pm)

NAME

       Linux::Distribution - Perl extension to detect on which Linux distribution we are running.

SYNOPSIS

	 use Linux::Distribution qw(distribution_name distribution_version);

	 if(my $distro = distribution_name) {
	       my $version = distribution_version();
	       print "you are running $distro, version $version
";
	 } else {
	       print "distribution unknown
";
	 }

	 Or else do it OO:

	 use Linux::Distribution qw(distribution_name distribution_version);

	 my $linux = Linux::Distribution->new;
	 if(my $distro = $linux->distribution_name()) {
	       my $version = $linux->distribution_version();
	       print "you are running $distro, version $version
";
	 } else {
	       print "distribution unknown
";
	 }

DESCRIPTION

       This is a simple module that tries to guess on what linux distribution we are running by looking for release's files in /etc.  It now looks
       for 'lsb-release' first as that should be the most correct and adds ubuntu support.  Secondly, it will look for the distro specific files.

       It currently recognizes slackware, debian, suse, fedora, redhat, turbolinux, yellowdog, knoppix, mandrake, conectiva, immunix, tinysofa,
       va-linux, trustix, adamantix, yoper, arch-linux, libranet, gentoo, ubuntu, scientific, oracle enterprise linux and redflag.

       It has function to get the version for debian, suse, fedora, redhat, gentoo, slackware, scientific, oracle enterprise linux, redflag and
       ubuntu(lsb). People running unsupported distro's are greatly encouraged to submit patches :-)

   EXPORT
       None by default.

TODO

       Add the capability of recognize the version of the distribution for all recognized distributions.

AUTHORS

       Alexandr Ciornii <alexchorny@gmail.com>, <http://chorny.net> Alberto Re, <alberto@accidia.net> Judith Lebzelter, <judith@osdl.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.5 or,
       at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

perl v5.14.2							    2012-03-18						  Linux::Distribution(3pm)