At work (an international sales company) we tried OCS about a year and a half ago. Unfortunantly it went horribly. After 6+ months and with multiple Oracle Consultants (supplied Oracle itself) we were unable to get it up. It may have improved since then but for us the experience turned us off. Even got our Oracle DBA to rant about oracle products.
Before the fix it during creation it only created the root password. Last time I tried it (about 6 months ago) it created the administrator account then asked the user if they would like to create a user account. This to me is about the same as what Mandrake/RedHat does in that it does not force you to create a user account but allows you to. I agree it should do a better job of informing the user what the difference is but for the average n00b Mandrakes explination doesn't help much either.
Last I checked Lindows had fixed this root problem. It by default creates a different account for root and the users (calls it an administrator password.) I'm not a Lindows user (Debian to be exact) but It's still good to get your facts correct. Then again this is slashdot.
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At work (an international sales company) we tried OCS about a year and a half ago. Unfortunantly it went horribly. After 6+ months and with multiple Oracle Consultants (supplied Oracle itself) we were unable to get it up. It may have improved since then but for us the experience turned us off. Even got our Oracle DBA to rant about oracle products.
Before the fix it during creation it only created the root password. Last time I tried it (about 6 months ago) it created the administrator account then asked the user if they would like to create a user account. This to me is about the same as what Mandrake/RedHat does in that it does not force you to create a user account but allows you to. I agree it should do a better job of informing the user what the difference is but for the average n00b Mandrakes explination doesn't help much either.
Last I checked Lindows had fixed this root problem. It by default creates a different account for root and the users (calls it an administrator password.) I'm not a Lindows user (Debian to be exact) but It's still good to get your facts correct. Then again this is slashdot.