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 de

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.