2008-11-18 von ekkehard.

Today, I was playing with the thought again to purchase an AIX workstation one day when I can afford them, and I was surprised to see that IBM is going to give its Intellistation POWER Series workstations the boot in January ‘09. A black day for AIX on the desktop. I really wonder what’s the problem there, warehouse costs? IBM has a history of burying its best stuff (like OS/2 for instance). Some years ago, I enjoyed hacking away on an RS/6000 workstation running AIX 4.2, and it was a pure joy. Not only the kernel, but also the admin tools, like smit and smitty. Their blade-centric solution uses Windows as a client for workstation application. This truly sounds like IBM wants AIX only for servers anymore. I’m not amused. Although, eXceed on Windows with an XDCMP server running on AIX might also be a viable solution … whatever. But it can’t beat a native POWER box sitting on your desk, that’s for sure.

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2008-11-18 von ekkehard.

Tonight, I restored a backup I made on Blu-ray disks. Restoring a folder of merely 60,000 files took over 6 hours. While Blu-ray is the best option for optical storage of 25 GB per disk and beyond, reading speeds are more akin to old QIC streamers … (along with the odd seeking noise)

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2008-11-18 von ekkehard.

Yesterday, Australia’s PC Authority interviewed Richard Stallman, the head of GNU and the FSF. In that interview, Stallman talks about free software and the difference to mere open source. A very interesting read!

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