Frank van Bortel wrote:
> 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?
Your question, I hope, is rhetorical.
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Daniel A. Morgan
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Received on Wed Mar 02 2005 - 00:57:18 CST
