A crazy question huh. I was wondering how many people who will fall on my blog by mistake or even who meant to will know what AIX stand for. So I thought I will give a hint to all of you. According to wikipedia AIX (A dvanced I nteractive eXecutive) is a proprietary UNIX operating […]
A typical AIX system administrator problem is the importance of these systems, and being not able to stop them at anytime & for any reason. A downtime on these AIX boxes are very expensive and the admin has to avoid at all cost. In the other hand, its often the case where the admin has […]
If you are looking for some IBM AIX / Pseries software, or even if you are looking for any IBM software in general then you must check out ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ The above ftp server is loaded with legal IBM software than you can use or just learn about them. Check it out & comment which of […]
Throughout the life of a volume group (VG) can happen a lot. The most common are in relation to its size or its physical volumes. Ah, I can hear a lot of you thinking about how to expand their volume :). When changing the size of a physical volume (PV) AIX does not realize it […]
When you get to the most unfortunate time & you have a failure with your AIX box it get to be handy to have the list of AIX Error Codes and their diagnosis. Although googling & internet searching is invaluable options these days, when searching for a resolution for AIX ensure it is totally related […]
This is a super funny video explaining why BSD is dying. You really should watch this for a good laugh :). Though Please don’t get us wrong we love BSD, but can’t persist this funny video.
FreeBSD 7.1 has been officially announced few weeks back, this version of FreeBSD has incorporated some changes and some improvements over its predecessor RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0 including: The ULE scheduler is now the default in the kernel of the i386 and amd64 architectures. DTrace is completely ported to FreeBSD from OpenSolaris. BootLoader is amended to […]
I have noticed that Fedora 11 (Leonidas) used ext4fs as file system by default. Ext4fs main features are: Compatibility with ext3FS Larger file system support (> 16T) larger File Size Support (> 2T) Scalability of subdirectories Extents Multi Allocation Delayed allocation fsck faster Checksum Journal Journal mode Online defragmentation Persistent pre-allocation Barriers Being Fedora 11 […]
With a total of 1108 votes of 2480 possible, the code name of Fedora 11 is as follows: Leonidas The other candidates names were untamed, Claypool, BrasÃlia, Blarney, Duchess, Zampone, Euryalus. The original note https: / / www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-January/msg00010.html.
Red Hat, Inc., the leading global provider of open source solutions, has announced the global availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 on the 20th of Jan 2009. This third update of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 provides a wide range of improvements, including virtualization, significantly increased scalability, expanded hardware platform and supported the inclusion […]