No problem. I do have some very bad experiences with SuSE. Software
was nowhere to be found, they were pushing their own alternatives and the
icing on the cake was when a member of SuSE support stuff has told me that
building kernel is for experts only. I was trying to install OSS sound on my
box because it was working, in contrast to ALSA. I downloaded the official
kernel (2.4.10 at the time), built it and ditched SuSE at the earliest
convenience. Now that they were acquired by Novell, they may learn what is the
meaning of the phrase "customer support".
I am inclined to try Gentoo, now that RH is no longer an option. In my
opinion, Red Hat has just made a disastrous move which will cause them to
perish within a year.
I believe that they need general public to remain on top because. at least to
my knowledge, not much of the corporate world is committed to Linux. My
prediction is that RH will be bought and Szulik will be out within two years
from now.
On 2003.11.04 12:19, "Jesse, Rich" wrote:
> Mladen,
>
> Save yourself from RPM hell and try Gentoo. I ended up converting a box at
> home from RH8 to Gentoo after much prodding by a co-worker or two. I admit
> it's muuuuch easier to install/build packages under Gentoo because of
> portage's dependency list that RPMs somehow seem to lack. I gave up trying
> to install Kino (non-linear editor/video capture) on RH8. On Gentoo, it's
> "emerge -pv kino" to see what it's going to do, then "emerge -v kino" to
> actually do it.
>
> And I've mentioned here before that Oracle 9iR2 was an a trouble-free
> install on it, too! (to help keep this on-topic)
>
> I suppose there is a potential argument for SuSE because of the
> "pseudo-supported by Oracle" thing....
>
>
> Rich
>
> Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator
> rjesse_at_qtiworld.com Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:mgogala_at_adelphia.net]
> > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 10:59 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: Re: redhat/oracle
> >
> >
> > I'll try my luck with SuSE. It apparently has IBM support. Red Hat is
> > starting to act badly and brings memories of one former Xenix reseller
> > which made fortune by selling operating system written by IBM.
> >
> > On 2003.11.03 23:24, Jared Still wrote:
> > > This is news to me. RH will no longer let you download
> > Linux for free?
> > >
> > > hmmm....
> > >
> > > Sure enough, look at http://www.redhat.com/apps/commerce/rhel/ws/
> > >
> > > The cheapest version is $179.00 US. Looks like the next version
> > > for me will be Gentoo.
> > >
> > > Jared
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 17:54, Joe Testa wrote:
> > > > Well with RH latest ordeal of jumping out of simple ISOs
> > and basically
> > > > no more free software, what is oracle's stand on running
> > on RH?, the
> > > > paid version only from now on and those linux users out
> > there, what are
> > > > WE going to do?
> > > >
> > > > Looking to see if i need to spend money before end of year for tax
> > > > write-off :)
> > > >
> > > > joe
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