Now, once this is setup, I would like to hand over maintenance to a competent sysadmin. What I'd like to know is how many local Linux professionals would be competent enough to maintain a Slackware-based server versus say, a Redhat/Suse one?
I use Slackware on all of my Linux servers, mainly because like you, its my distro of choice and its the distro that I am very much comfortable with. I don't know if there is a statistics about which distro sysadmins
prefer and use, but on the other Local Linux mailing list that I am in, most of the guys uses Slackware or Debian.
I haven't used Debian, but I have a feeling it is similar to Slackware in that eschews 3rd party GUI tools whose advantage is mainly cosmetic so my guess is that someone who's comfortable with Debian should feel quite at home with Slackware.
IMHO, the similarity is just philosophical. Slackware and Debian's difference is almost the same as Slackware and other distros. For example BSD style init scripts vs System V's, inetd vs xinetd; the use of vanilla kernel and heavily patched kernel, package management, dependency issues, etc...(the list goes on and on :-)
But what about those who breathe Redhat and/or Suse? Would they do a good job of maintaining this server?
IMHO, differences between distros can be learned, a competent admin can adjust to the distro that he is administering.
just my 2 cents.
regards, Kenneth Oncinian
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