AIX

Hello Everybody

I am new to AIX and planning to start learning it. I have downloaded some articles and tutorials on AIX and also on VI.

Now my question is: Is there an AIX console which I can download on my laptop to get some hands on? by the way my laptop runs on Windows XP.

Also I wanted to learn VI editor, I have read some articles but i wanted to get some hands on, so is there a vi for windows? I know this for sure that lemmy can be installed on windows but is it absoutely similar to vi? are there any more clones of vi which are for windows? and from where can i download them?

will greatly appreciate any help!!

Anks

I too am in the sam boat partner. I have been thinking about taking a AIX/UNIX bootcamp to get certified and be done with it. I want and need to learn it with in 3 months time.


I am also looking to run it on my laptop. Maybe we can tag team on this.

do you know of any good places to get some god reading info on AIX and why are you trying to learn it. What are you hoping to gain?

Goto http://www.vim.org and you have your VI editor. Or install Linux and you can also practice with VI.

If you look at the FAQs of this forum you can find lots of good AIX info. Also visit IBM's new AIX wiki.

http://www-941.ibm.com/collaboration...WikiPtype/Home

Lot's of Linkage and good info. IBM and AIX are hot and heavy into virtualization with the Power5 CPU's, so if you do not have access to that environment it can be difficult to get good sys admin experience, if that is what you are going for.

Thanx for the response scotbuff!!!

I am actually a Db2 DBA and have been working on Windows till now. But now I will have to work on AIX, so I just wanted to familiarize my self with the AIX enviornment and I might have to do some scripting therefore the need to understand the VI editor arises.

I have dowloaded the VI Editor hopefully that will help me a lot...

Thanks again....

VIM for windows still allows mouse interaction. All the command line shortcuts are there though and to really learn VI you should learn to maneuver with the keyboard only.

I went to that site and ont see a place to download VI and practice with it.


I thank you for the inforamtion though. But how can I down load it or where can I get a compay of LINUX?

http://www.vim.org/download.php

Scroll down to the PC MS-DOS and Windows section.

I would probably recommend that since you are new to Linux that you try Ubuntu, or you could try Knoppix, which will run off a CD and requires no install. Ubuntu has a live CD too.

http://www.ubuntu.com
http://www.knoppix.org/

To practice VI via the command line with Linux, since it will load a GUI desktop, look for the Terminal Application. Then simply type vi filename, filename being the file you want to edit.

You can get started with basic Unix/Linux using the tutorial:
http://cpuug.org/index.php?jumpto=unix10