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Re: Free Linux to run Oracle

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 10:14:30 -0800
Message-ID: <1162750468.244165@bubbleator.drizzle.com>


Mladen Gogala wrote:
> I've had enormous problems with FC5 and I've just tried with FC6. Oracle
> 10.2, I'm sorry to say, doesn't work on that distribution. In retrospect,
> I approve of Oracle's recent move into Linux arena. If red Hat did not
> have enough sense to make Oracle working on their distros, Oracle did the
> right thing, by taking care of the problem themselves. This commendable
> move, however, will not have much impact on Fedora which will have to be
> abandoned as an Oracle platform.
> As a person still running FC4 on my home computer, I started looking for
> the new candidates. So far, OpenSuse and Ubuntu seem like good
> alternatives. I planned on switching to FC6 over the Thanksgiving, but
> Oracle 10.2.0.1 did not work and, to add insult to the injury, FC6
> overwrote my grub installation, which was extremely annoying. Therefore,
> I'm soliciting opinions about OpenSuse and Ubuntu. Did anybody try these
> things? I know that Oracle 10 works on OpenSuse 10.1. What is a general
> opinion of that distribution?

I think the vast majority of Oracle's customers are running on AS and with that I have never had any serious operating system issues.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
Received on Sun Nov 05 2006 - 12:14:30 CST

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