--- DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Paul - How strong is your *nix background? Just Linux, starting with RH 5.1. read lots of texts (Cockroft, Alomari, Morle) and maintain 3 RH servers currently. I think that I have 2 years of experience, 4 times over, not 8 years of experience. > My theory is that moving to a new > platform produces frustration. Things you could do > easily on the old system > are difficult on the new system until you > incorporate the mindset of the new > system. Frustration is more easily dealt with when > you understand that it is > just a temporary inconvenience. Just my 2 cents > worth. > > Dennis Williams > DBA > Lifetouch, Inc. > dwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Thanks for your comments, Dennis. The real indicator is how things are during a restore/recovery scenario. I haven't practiced those yet on Linux. Doesn't reading slashdot since its inception make one a grepmaster? I think that I have some of the mindset. Having an impressive shelf full of animals does not make one a good SA (there is quite the O'Reilly collection at home). There's lots of details specific to any OS, like choosing optimal filesystems, getting async_io to work properly, but most of those are solved problems thanks to those on the list that blaze that trail for the rest of us (thanks Joe, Nuno). Paul __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------