AIX
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
2warn against
Dec 31, 2025first mention
Oct 3, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“to keep my Claude, Codex, and OpenCode in sync with my config.”
“the virtualization functionality was pretty neat”
Used to work at an AIX shop, 20+ years agoon “SDF Public Access Unix System”
Caveats and dissent
“I will not suggest building anything new on AIX or z/OS”
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Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“There's also a command you can run to convert your Claude config to what Codex expects”
“I've been using this heavily the past 6 months to solve exactly this problem”
“It currently supports 8 editors/agents”
“Allows standardizing your AI config to share with others”
Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: How do you manage skills files? 5 mentions
- cp: -r or -R? 1 mention
- What Sun got wrong 1 mention
- Amiga Unix, Again 1 mention
- Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke 1 mention
- Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork 1 mention
Also written as aix. Data: aix.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 12
“The AIX manual for cp explains its difference between -r and -R:”
“I will not suggest building anything new on AIX or z/OS”
“I did use an IBM PowerPC 43P as a daily driver under AIX 3.1 for a long while”
Oh, seems it supports Grok now. Seems very interesting. Will give it a try. Thanks!
“to keep my Claude, Codex, and OpenCode in sync with my config.”
“you can even program for z/OS and Aix with Go and Rust”
“Power5 560Q running AIX in my garage”
“the virtualization functionality was pretty neat”
“AIX is still supported and sold”
https://github.com/Arquivotheca/AIX-4.1.3
“shipping software on Aix, HP-UX, Solaris and Windows NT/2000”
“away from AIX & Progress”