Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 03, 2005 04:21 AM
Speaking as someone who has implemented production systems with SuSE 7-8x, RedHat 7-9x, Debian & Mandrake 8.x-2005LE, I think this writer is all wet.
On one job we brought in a 'guru' who spent 5 DAYS getting a debian host set up with Oracle 9.2. Subsequently myself(programmer) and the lead programmer moved the database to Mandrake 9.2 in 1 DAY! This after initially trying to move it to RedHat 9... we wasted a day on that effort - what a mess!
When we installed it on Mandrake 9.2 we had to download 1 package specifically for Oracle, OpenMotif. We're not even sure we had to do that, we just did it because we weren't sure that it was part of the default install(I guess the author would call that a 'drawback' of Mandriva!).
At any rate the database ran like a swiss watch on Mandrake 9.2 for 2 years, before finally moving it to RedHat just so that Oracle would non-OS related support questions!
My experience with many distros/versions/kernels is that if you need pain to feel like you're working with a 'real' linux distro, you may be quite disappointed with Mandriva... Mandriva in many instances is the OS that Windoze always wanted to be... install it and it just works.
Secondly, I have customized many Mandrake installations, including custom compilations of numerous versions of Apache, PHP and MANY other systems; I have with great granularity customized security and many other aspects of the Mandrake OS for servers & desktops. The only thing that my experience tells me is missing with the Mandrake/Mandriva linux experience is pain and frustation.
Mandriva shatters the old myth - at least when it comes to linux distros - of 'No Pain, No Gain'. With Mandriva it is best restated as 'Great Gain, Little Pain.
David Keith
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 03, 2005 04:21 AMOn one job we brought in a 'guru' who spent 5 DAYS getting a debian host set up with Oracle 9.2. Subsequently myself(programmer) and the lead programmer moved the database to Mandrake 9.2 in 1 DAY! This after initially trying to move it to RedHat 9... we wasted a day on that effort - what a mess!
When we installed it on Mandrake 9.2 we had to download 1 package specifically for Oracle, OpenMotif. We're not even sure we had to do that, we just did it because we weren't sure that it was part of the default install(I guess the author would call that a 'drawback' of Mandriva!).
At any rate the database ran like a swiss watch on Mandrake 9.2 for 2 years, before finally moving it to RedHat just so that Oracle would non-OS related support questions!
My experience with many distros/versions/kernels is that if you need pain to feel like you're working with a 'real' linux distro, you may be quite disappointed with Mandriva... Mandriva in many instances is the OS that Windoze always wanted to be... install it and it just works.
Secondly, I have customized many Mandrake installations, including custom compilations of numerous versions of Apache, PHP and MANY other systems; I have with great granularity customized security and many other aspects of the Mandrake OS for servers & desktops. The only thing that my experience tells me is missing with the Mandrake/Mandriva linux experience is pain and frustation.
Mandriva shatters the old myth - at least when it comes to linux distros - of 'No Pain, No Gain'. With Mandriva it is best restated as 'Great Gain, Little Pain.
David Keith
Progammer/Admin/Engineer etc. ad nauseum
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