[plug] Im back on the list

[Leon Brooks]

On Tuesday 04 June 2002 15:01, Craig Ringer wrote:
> What is terrifying is that AuDA have selected Mandrake as the
> distro-of-choice for the new Australian domain name service. I would've
> thought Debian but of course there's the release cycle issue. When they
> go live with the new DNS, all our 'net access for .au will be via
> Mandrake + Bind9 + Oracle9i . Weird eh?

No. Bind9 is a nearly total rewrite and AFAICT a good one. There are some 
alternatives to Oracle, but big databases aren't toys.

Mandrake as a server works quite well, they seem to be less inclined to nudge 
the envelope than they do with the X stuff. Mandrake 8.2 has been good to me 
so far.

Cheers, Leon