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AIX is one of the many Unix-like OS's. So are the different Linux distributions. Neither of them is more Unix that the others.
(And all of them have their own quirks, for example AIX likes to store shared objects in *.a archives. Can be very problematic.)
Hi work with both AIX (The company server) and linux (my PC) on a daily basis and I find that IBM is vary reluctant to change so I would look at one of the older distros and passably an old version of it. (Of course no GUI!) So I would go for an old distro that runs the corn shell.
There are guides out there for running AIX 4.3 on older PowerPC desktops. 4.3 is not all that different than current 6.1 and 7.1 versions insofar as command structure, syntax, smitty, etc... Of course, you won't be using AIX 4.3 to do advanced micro-partitioning, building out VIO servers. Still, if your goal is to just learn command syntax, basic AIX file structure and all that, it would work fine. You can find AIX install cd's on eBay and the like, but they are becoming harder to come by.
AIX is one of the many Unix-like OS's. So are the different Linux distributions. Neither of them is more Unix that the others.
(And all of them have their own quirks, for example AIX likes to store shared objects in *.a archives. Can be very problematic.)
AIX isn't unix like. It's a unix variant and it's more unix than linux because it actually complies to unix specifications.
Might be so, but let's keep in mind posix doesn't mean 'unix' or 'unix-like'. It means 'portable OS Interface'. Even Windows has (used to have) posix-compatible API.
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