[ale] Slackware and Oracle

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 21:54, Bob Toxen wrote:
> I find that usually binaries between Red Hat and Slackware of similar
> vintage are compatible.  I recently had no trouble dropping the
> Opera Browser binary into a SW8.1 system.
That was what I was thinking as well. I attempted an installation onto a
fresh Slackware 9.1 and ran into build errors for some of the tools. The
big hassle was the loss of the principle admin tool and its gui. I will
databases all day long for postgresql and Mysql, but Oracle is a
rip-snorting PIA to do from the command line.

I will be tinkering with this over the next day or so. I suspect the
culprit is a lib that RedHat patched that Slackware uses raw from the
developer. 

I've been having a love/hate relationship with RedHat for a while now
(since 8.0). There are so many things that "just work" and yet there are
so many other things I pull out my hair over. 
> 
> "Microsoft: Unsafe at any clock speed!"
>    -- Bob Toxen 10/03/2002
> _______________________________________________

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  -- James Kinney 10/15/2003
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