Bye-bye AIX! (Score 1)

Bye-bye AIX, I wont miss you. I hope this means that the AIX machines at the University of New Mexico will go to Linux like the CS department has. As far as a compiler goes, AIX's version of g++ let's too many things slip by, like being able to misspell your constructor name without a warning (without using -Wall or -pedantic flags).

This is a good thing for Linux, and supporting a free OS sure can't hurt IBM. One of the problems with Linux now is that is only seems to work with older hardware. Although I am running SuSE 6.3 with a Voodoo3 3000 and a Sound Blaster Live! That's modern hardware.

It also seems that universities around the contry are supporting the use of Linux as well. It's easy to require a student to use a free compiler, and saves the university on software costs. This helps ensure that IBM will not be at a loss for Linux programmers in the long run.