[ale] Slackware and Oracle

[Synco Gibraldter]

At 05:38 PM 10/13/2003, you wrote:
>On Monday 13 October 2003 10:42, James P. Kinney III wrote:
>
> > Has anyone had _any_ success with Oracle and Slackware or should I go
> > back to the "I know I can do this" RedHat?
>
>It's not worth the trouble.

i always thought oracle was only distributed as a binary -- that's the 
reason i've refused to give it a try.  how is it distributed, then??