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Rob McNelly shares his thoughts on user experiences, both in tech and out in the world The post McNelly: Change May Be Inevitable, but Some Design Changes Are Ill-Advised appeared first on TechChannel.

Multiple Vulnerabilities in IBM AIX could allow for arbitrary code execution. Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in IBM AIX, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution.

After installing VIOS to local HDD, I can use LUNs from ESOS for storage pools/vdisks in IVM. Installing AIX.iso from usb – does not link or see LUNs. If I try to go to option 5 on the install config page “Select Storage Adapters”, it hangs.

#IBMAIX has a technology called WPAR to enable containerization, but it is not developer-friendly like podman or docker.3 years ago, I did a small PoC – runc-aix to run containers on AIX in a “runc manner”. It is based on WPAR syscalls that are available in AIX, but it doesn’t use any userspace WPAR tools. It can start and stop containers and nothing else.This is a small demo using it.

Most of us working with AIX know the IBM AIX Toolbox for Open Source Software. It’s a repository that gives us access to the open-source world. But have you ever looked closely… The post AIX Toolbox – What is hidden among the RPM packages for AIX? appeared first on OSAdmins.