From: Niall James O'Higgins (njo at domain sig11.com)
Date: Thu 20 Jun 2002 - 18:00:20 IST
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 05:15:03PM +0100, Brian O'Donoghue wrote:
> Ie if
> the admin who comes after me has less patience for Linux then a distro like
> Slackware may be too difficult to troubleshoot and admin and perhaps
> something with gui bells and whistles like Mandrake would be easier for a
> windows buff to admin, thus making Linux's chances of continuity in my
> abscence all the greater?
This is an old argument. First off, what GUI tools does Mandrake actually have that Slackware doesnt?
In my experiences, GUI "admin" tools for unix are a nasty kludge on top of config files. You're better off editing the files by hand.
If I was you, I'd leave Slackware on the machine. Mandrake isnt gonna make it a whole lot easier for a windows admin to take care of Oracle. Slackware is also ALOT less bloated than Mandrake. On a machine of your calibre, every meg of RAM counts.
Just my opinion.
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