UNIX Environment Setup - (Just starting!)

Morning All

So, I am starting looking into the world of UNIX for a new job (luckily not my primary function!) and I am looking to get stared. Like anything I seem to learn best by trying things out first in an environment but I have a key question:

Currently I use Oracle VirtualBox, can anyone recommend a good UNIX OS which will help me get started - that will be close to an AIX environment?

So within my new environment we will be using DB2 so I can download the a

Hi,

AIX proper really only runs on IBM's pSeries and ocaisionally I've seen it on iSeries, there is a greater range of equipment that will run Linux pSeries( Power8 Only ), iSeries, zSeries and xSeries.

I'm not sure that I know of any way of running AIX under Virtual Box, I've had experience of runing Solaris and SCO under Virtual Box and any number of Linux'es seem to run just fine.

My best guess would be that it's not possible, however I stand ready to be corrected.

Regards

Gull04