Re: Free Linux to run Oracle

"Mladen Gogala" <mgogala.spam-me-not_at_verizon.net> wrote in message news:pan.2006.11.05.06.10.32.939513_at_verizon.net...
> 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?
>
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Have you tried CentOS 4? It should run nearly identical to RHEL4. Received on Sun Nov 05 2006 - 16:57:46 CST