Prior to the general availability of AIX 6, IBM intends to make a pre-release version of AIX 6 available in an open beta. "AIX is an open, standards-based UNIX operating system that provides the enterprise information technology infrastructure for thousands of clients around the world. IBM intends to take the next step in the evolution of the AIX operating system with the release of the AIX V6.1 OS."
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I take it you have never used AIX, so let me help you out on your comparison:
* Workload Partitions - more than likely an extension to IBM's LPAR technology
* Role Based Access Control - Check out RBAC for Solaris
* Trusted AIX - More like Trusted Solaris
* Graphical Installation - for people who have bitched about how bad it is to install Solaris have never installed AIX (I have). Install BOS (Base Operating System), want X, load a CD. You want man pages, load another CD, wash, rinse, repeat until AIX is installed with what you want or need.
A graphical installation would only be the beginning of the improvements IBM could add to the AIX installation routine.
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>* Workload Partitions - Xen
More like SUN containers I believe. Except intended for single applications I think.
>* Live Application Mobility - Xen live migrations
Sure. Or VMWARE.
>* AIX Security Expert LDAP integration - ActiveDirectory
No. SE is a tool that can (as a small part) distribute security profiles. Putting profiles in LDAP seems sensible to me.
>* Graphical Installation - L.O.L.
I'll do with the textbased one. This is one for the featurelist only, not for real admins.
>* Kernel support for POWER6 Storage Key - ???
Dividing a monolithic all-access kernel into "compartments" with access restrictions. AFAIK. 100% dependent on new CPU hw (don't know if some other chips like Itanium might have similar).
>* Concurrent AIX kernel update - Linux modules
I'm betting on it being rather better and more deep-down guts replumbing. Another 24/7 feature you want.
>* Enhanced software first failure data capture - better dump
Nah, this is about watching hw fail. Or hopefully telling before it totally does. More 24/7 features.
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"The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 6 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements. Please note that all fixes in the prior security/bugfix updates (NetBSD 6.0.1 and 6.0.2) are also in 6.1."
"At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn't developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the software engineers in EA Sports' Canada studio, in a series of since-deleted tweets, disparaged the console as 'crap' and suggested Nintendo should give up on hardware altogether. 'The Wii U is crap. Less powerful than an Xbox 360. Poor online/store. Weird tablet', tweeted Bob Summerwill, listed as a senior software engineer at EA Canada, in a reply to a tweet posting a link about EA's no-Wii U news. 'Nintendo are walking dead at this point'." The Wii U is turning into the 21st century's Virtual Boy.
"In NixOS, the entire operating system - the kernel, applications, system packages, configuration files, and so on - is built by the Nix package manager from a description in a purely functional build language. The fact that it's purely functional essentially means that building a new configuration cannot overwrite previous configurations. Most of the other features follow from this." Interesting approach. A Linux distribution, sure, but with some very refreshing ideas about system configuration.
Appfour added, among other features, C/C++ support to its new version of AIDE. From Android-IDE, "Now you can write parts of your app or your whole app in C/C++ on your device. AIDE supports the Standard Android NDK toolchain (GCC 4.6 + Bionic, STL, ...). No changes are necessary if you want to build an app developed on a PC with Eclipse. C/C++ development is fully integrated: Build errors appear in the error list and files can easily be navigated to with Go to file. The editor supports C/C++ syntax highlighting."
Ars nails it: "The answer is that Google did announce what amounts to a fairly substantial Android update yesterday. They simply did it without adding to the update fragmentation problems that continue to plague the platform. By focusing on these changes and not the apparently-waiting-in-the-wings update to the core software, Google is showing us one of the ways in which it's trying to fix the update problem."
"It is good for programmers to understand what goes on inside a processor. The CPU is at the heart of our career. What goes on inside the CPU? How long does it take for one instruction to run? What does it mean when a new CPU has a 12-stage pipeline, or 18-stage pipeline, or even a 'deep' 31-stage pipeline? Programs generally treat the CPU as a black box. Instructions go into the box in order, instructions come out of the box in order, and some processing magic happens inside. As a programmer, it is useful to learn what happens inside the box. This is especially true if you will be working on tasks like program optimization. If you don't know what is going on inside the CPU, how can you optimize for it? This article is about what goes on inside the x86 processor's deep pipeline."
"It was the only moment I heard regret slip into Otellini's voice during the several hours of conversations I had with him. 'The lesson I took away from that was, while we like to speak with data around here, so many times in my career I've ended up making decisions with my gut, and I should have followed my gut,' he said. 'My gut told me to say yes.'" The world would've been a much different place - Apple would have been less dependant on Samsung for its chips, which probably would've meant less money for Samsung to develop its Galaxy business.Glass is getting some love at Google I/O as well. New applications have been released - Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, Elle, Tumblr, and CNN. Perhaps more interesting: the newly announced Google Glass Developer Kit will allow offline applications and direct hardware access - great for hacking and expanding Glass' potential. This kit will really allow hackers to put Glass through its paces."But Beck and Merrill decided that simply banning toxic players wasn't an acceptable solution for their game. Riot Games began experimenting with more constructive modes of player management through a formal player behavior initiative that actually conducts controlled experiments on its player base to see what helps reduce bad behavior. The results of that initiative have been shared at a lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and on panels at the Penny Arcade Expo East and the Game Developers Conference." Absolutely fascinating stuff. I'm a League of Legends player, and to be honest, the community isn't nearly as bad as some make it out to be. I'm happy Riot games has the guts to employ science to address the issue.
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Is it me, or are they trying to play catch-up with other OSes ? All that seems pretty much work they could have put into Linux.
Okay I'm not being fair, but for the fun, here is the feature list with some rough guessed comparisons :
* Workload Partitions - Xen
* Live Application Mobility - Xen live migrations
* Role Based Access Control - Windows ACL, ...
* Trusted AIX - SELinux
* Encrypting filesystem - linux loopback devices, Vista BitLocker, ...
* AIX Security Expert LDAP integration - ActiveDirectory
* Secure by Default installation option - Major trend, just look at the new linux distros and Vista too
* Graphical Installation - L.O.L.
* Network Installation Manager support for NFSv4 - ...
* Kernel support for POWER6 Storage Key - ???
* Concurrent AIX kernel update - Linux modules
* Dynamic tracing - DTrace on Solaris
* Enhanced software first failure data capture - better dump
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