Re: Survey: Which Linux desktop would you run a test of Oracle on and why?

From: Jonathan Gennick <jonathan_at_gennick.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:48:21 -0400
Message-ID: <4276189825.20050810214821@gennick.com>

A couple years ago I was once in a hurry to meet a crazy deadline and I actually ponied up the dollars for Suse Enterprise 8. Mostly though, I run whatever version of Suse Professional is current. Right now I'm running 10gR2 on Suse Pro 9.3. There were a few packages I had to install that didn't come by default, and I wasn't able to get ASMLib to go on at all, but Suse and then Oracle went on the box with a minimum of fuss. (The lack of ASMLib, btw, does not completely prevent you from using ASM.)

Best regards,

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Wednesday, August 10, 2005, 2:43:55 PM, Jesse, Rich (Rich.Jesse_at_quadtechworld.com) wrote:

JR> I'm struggling with getting CentOS 4.1 (RHEL 4 clone) configured as a
JR> desktop that I can also run an instance of 9i, 10gR1, and/or 10gR2 on.
JR> There's no way I should be having this many problems with an effing
JR> wheel mouse, missing or sorely out-of-date RPMs, problematic RPMs
JR> (openssl and a libcrypt.so.5 snafu), and so on.  I still plan on using
JR> it for a headless Linux server for Oracle testing, but not for a
JR> desktop.

JR> I had formerly been using Gentoo, but I'm sick of the way the Gentoo
JR> Team keeps breaking Portage (try a revdep-rebuild after upgrading
JR> openssl if you haven't done a emerge world in the last six months).  I'm
JR> thinking of going back to Gentoo and employing workarounds, but would

JR> just as soon having something a little closer to "Oracle Certified" if JR> only to ease Oracle testing.

JR> My main goals are:

JR>         1) Useable and customizeable desktop. (e.g. Enlightenment WM)
JR>         2) Oracle 9.2, 10.1, 10.2+ installable and as usable as a
JR> "supported" Linux.
JR>         3) Avoid distros which make me do more work while attempting to
JR> protect me from myself (e.g. Ubuntu).

JR> Ideally, I'd like to get away from the RPM Hell, which significantly JR> narrows down the field, but I'm willing to be convinced otherwise.

JR> Thoughts?

JR> Rich

JR> Rich Jesse                        System/Database Administrator
JR> rich.jesse_at_quadtechworld.com      QuadTech, Sussex, WI USA

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