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RE: intel clusters in a box

From: Marquez, Chris <CMarquez_at_aarp.org>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 17:16:31 -0500
Message-ID: <7E412C164E6ECB468834A39F31E6E0D406689005@mbs06dc.na.aarp.int>

For personal use anything is game;=20
2.2, 2.4, 2.6...or 2.5, 2.7 if you like.

But for (RAC) Oracle...Oracle documentation=20 is very specific about wich kernel you *will* use.

Chris Marquez
Oracle DBA
HEYMONitor(tm) - heymonitor.com
"Oracle Monitoring & Alerting Solution"

-----Original Message-----

From:	oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org on behalf of Mladen Gogala
Sent:	Fri 1/21/2005 4:50 PM
To:	jkstill_at_gmail.com
Cc:	stellr_at_cns.vt.edu; Don Granaman; oracle-l
Subject:	Re: intel clusters in a box

Jared Still wrote:

>You left out an important component: the Linux vendor.
>
>Suse should be given serious consideration. It is in many
>respects superior to RedHat.
>
>For starters, they use the 2.6 kernel rather than =
hacking^H^H^H^Hporting
>new features into the 2.4 kernel.
>
>Jared
> =20
>

I must say that I like their evil ways with the kernel. So far, I've had = loads of trouble with 2.6 kernel. I upgraded my FC3 box to 2.6.10 and, = immediately, my linux-wlan-ng stopped working (the new kernel changed the driver interface, and it fails to load) so I have to use orinoco = which doesn't support WEP. Fun with nvidia drivers and 2.6 kernel is = very well known, an the same goes for the ALSA drivers. Staying with 2.4 is a very smart move if we want a stable OS. The latest 2.6 kernel still = has ways to go before maturing to acceptable level. I switched from 2.2 to 2.4 when 2.4.14 appeared on the market. I don't consider SuSE's = eagerness to start proliferating the 2.6 version as a laudable move.

-=20
Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
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