AIX Versions

AIX stands for Advanced Interactive eXecutive. It is an Unix operating system. It will run only on IBM machines and can not be installed in Windows supported system. When comparing to other flavors of unix, AIX is very powerful. This is because of Logical Volume Manager which helps us to manage the hard disks very efficiently. Another important thing is, In aix all the commands are very easy to remember and related to the common terms.

AIX versions and the year of release

AIX 1 – 1986
AIX 2 – 1987
AIX 3 – 1989
AIX 3.1 – 1990
AIX 3.2.5 – 1990
AIX 4.0 – 1993
AIX 4.1 – 1994
AIX 4.1.1 – 1994
AIX 4.1.2 – 1994
AIX 4.1.3 – 1995
AIX 4.1.4 – 1995
AIX 4.1.5 – 1996
AIX 4.2 – 1996
AIX 4.2.5 – 1994
AIX 4.3 – 1997
AIX 4.3.1 – 1998
AIX 4.3.2 – 1998
AIX 4.3.3 – 1999
AIX 5L – 2000
AIX 5L 5.1 – 2001
AIX 5L 5.2 – 2002
AIX 5L 5.3 – 2004
AIX 6 open beta – 2007
AIX 6.1 – 2007
AIX 7 – To be released by 2010