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Re: Which Linux for Oracle 9i on AMD Opteron?

From: Frank van Bortel <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net>
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 22:44:18 +0100
Message-ID: <d02nj6$421$2@news4.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>


Fabrizio wrote:

> Frank van Bortel wrote:
> 

>> DA Morgan wrote:
>>
>>> NetComrade wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you had a choice between RH and SuSe which one would you pick?
>>>>
>>>> I found a post that says that Oracle develops on SuSe, but given that
>>>> we will most likely be running Veritas on Linux, so far RH AS 3.0 is
>>>> the only choice.
>>>>
>>>> However, I was curious if there is a comparison between the two
>>>> somewhere from an Oracle Admin perspective.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> .......
>>>> We use Oracle 8.1.7.4 and 9.2.0.5 on Solaris 2.7 boxes
>>>> remove NSPAM to email
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't know what Oracle develops on but there is no question that
>>> what the corporation runs itself on: Redhat.
>>
>>
>>
>> But what would be the difference? The extras, the utilities,
>> the cream on top. Do you care? I don't.
>> The kernel would be (about) the same, apart from RH ES4 having
>> less patches that SuSE, but that is because SuSE was very fast
>> bringing out the latest kernel, whereas Red Hat waited for a
>> more mature version.
>>
>> Of course, a bit of a Linux adept would go and compile his/her
>> own kernel, wouldn't he?
> 
> 
> You would lose support from both: Oracle and the Linux vendor. :(
> 

What - for creating my own kernel? Leaving out all these obsolete options?

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel
Received on Tue Mar 01 2005 - 15:44:18 CST

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