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I use AIX and Solaris pretty much all the time. The pain incurred from building open-source code on Solaris is nothing compared to getting things to work proper

I use AIX and Solaris pretty much all the time. The pain incurred from building open-source code on Solaris is nothing compared to getting things to work properly on AIX. The dbx quirks on AIX I run into are issues with it not even supporting the code output by IBM's own compiler because the team building AIX is completely separate from the compiler team in Toronto, which is again completely separate from the team that owns dbx. You can imagine what kind of issues you run into when the compiler team implements features that the debugger team has not considered.

kjs3 12y ago
You keep missing the point. If your use case is running open source code bases, then don't use AIX. No shit it sucks, since the vast majority of open source developers probably haven't even seen an AIX login screen before, much less made any effort to make their projects seamlessly build under it. Hell, most of them don't even try to make it work under BSD/Solaris. You're using the classic "Ferrari sucks because it isn't build to haul a boat behind it" false argument. Use AIX for DB2, SAP, Tivoli, etc. Big stuff that is actually targeted for AIX. And, BTW...last time I checked, the people doing the Linux kernel were different than the people doing GCC who are different than the people doing GDB. I don't disagree that the AIX ecosystem is generally more dysfunctional, but the mere presence of separation is yet another straw man. Linus has had some less than flattering things to say about what GCC has been up to in the last year or so.