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Managing FOSS applications on AIX

Tools at the Ready!

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Starting your journey with open source software on AIX has never been easier with the IBM AIX Toolbox.

IBM has taken an active role in free and open source software (FOSS), in particular for Linux running on their Power servers. All modern day Power servers are now capable of running many different Linux distributions natively. Great, but what about the classic AIX operating system that still runs on so much IBM hardware?

Over the last couple of decades, IBM has taken steps to build open support into AIX [1]. The AIX Toolbox for Open Source Software [2] is an IBM site that serves as the primary source of GNU and open source tool packages ported to the AIX environment. The focus of this article is to look at the most efficient method of managing FOSS on AIX with the DNF package manager.

AIX Toolbox

Today more than 400 open source packages are available for download at the IBM hosted repository (Figure 1). The packages are kept current, with an update provided annually for most packages.

Figure 1: The IBM AIX Toolbox website for open source software.

Any security vulnerabilities are addressed, and fixes are provided in a timely fashion. The AIX Toolbox contains many popular and useful development packages, such as languages, compilers, and debuggers. Many

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