Although I haven't tried to install Red Hat, I've used and maintained systems running Mandrake (which is uses the same config tools and packaging system as Red Hat). Some programming experience (bash) is useful in managing slackware. Especially in maintaining the various init scripts as slack uses a slightly different system initialization method than Redhat (BSD vs System V). The same holds true for the various network configuation options (ppp, ifconfig, etc...) although slack has a netconfig tool to ease the process.
Slack also doesn't have kudzu (the hardware auto-detection program) installed by default so an understanding of kernel module loading and kernel compiles will also be useful.
Hope this helps
Andy Sy wrote:
> We are going to make a DBMS system for a client and I would > like to host it on a Slackware system because in my > experience, these are easy to deploy, maintain, and keep > stable over long periods of time. However, I am concerned > about support and I want our client to be able to count on > others to fix/upgrade the system in the event that we are not > around. > > I think it would be to local Slackware fans' interest to maintain > some sort of site, mailing list, group/association, or any other > mechanism where they can refer their clients to one another for > support. With some organization we (and our clients) can feel a > lot more confident deploying solutions based on this efficient > and effective distro. > > To those with the battle experience, is it feasible to recommend > someone experienced in Redhat to maintain a Slackware system? I > have heard that you can get a Slackware guy to adapt to a Redhat > system with little problem but that the converse is not true. I'm > inclined to believe this but would like some more opinions on the > matter. > >
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