[irusensei]

I did some work on AIX once. The thing that I remember is that I was granted some kind of zone/slice or wathever they call for compartmentalization. It didn't even had SSH so I had to use telnet.

The guy I was supposed to prepare the system for could only install Oracle from some crappy java UI wizard so I had to request the sysadmin to install a lot of Linux libraries and programs to enable X11 over SSH.

[whatusername]

From memory there was LPAR "Logical Partitions" - which were effectively like a VM. and there was WPAR "Workload Partitions" - which had a shared OS and were more like a container.

I had some "interesting" experiences getting stuff to work on WPAR's.

[tecleandor]

IIRC, WPARs could be just for one process, or full OS (but sharing the resources of one AIX instance, I guess that running on an LPAR or directly in the hardware).

But yeah, bit more like a container.

[irusensei]

Then it was probably an LPAR. Are those reliant on hardware magic or just something like cgroups?

[sillywalk]

LPARs use hardware virtualization. The PowerVM hypervisor (PHYP) is in firmware.

[Telemakhos]

I first learned on an AIX box in college; Cygwin/X gave me X11 access and worked perfectly, although I couldn’t tell you whether that used telnet or ssh. Back then I used telnet a lot without any regard for security.

[Rediscover]

> crappy java UI wizard

Nicely put (oof!). I believe it also enforced a minimal color depth, which none of our machines could directly support on their own hardware, forcing the use of remote X11 displays.

[avhception]

Sounds painful. Why is there no CLI installer? Fortunately, I never had to deal with Oracle.

[_DeadFred_]

Yes we first had a world of telnet and networks that allowed anyone who pierced them with a transceiver to be part of it (thicknet). It was a simpler/kinder/less malicious world than todays.

X Windows ran great on AIX before Linux was a thing. IBM was involved with its's inception (Project Athena).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE5