Re: oracle + linux/bsd
Date: 29 Mar 2012 04:12:43 +0100
Message-ID: <4f73c51b_at_news.x-privat.org>
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:43:14 +0100, geos wrote:
> I wonder what are the requirements for the minimally sized redhat-like
> distribution (or centos, or fedora) which allow oracle to run without
> issues? suppose I just don't want do download and install those GBs for
> the system. what would be minimalistic distribution to run oracle?
Runs fine on recent Ubuntu.
> and another question: what is the reason for not porting oracle to bsd
> family systems? are there really serious technical/philosophical
> differences which make porting not an option?
More coding, more testing, more support issues - those who run *BSD systems would normally be inclined to run PostgreSQL or MySQL.
> I saw some pages which
> describe installing oracle on non-supported linuxes (like gentoo): do
> this, do that and basically you're done and oracle works. but when it
> comes to bsd the only information was reporting Oracle 8.0.5 and 9i run
> on freebsd. it looks like tough task to run oracle on bsd. why?
You can run a Linux emulation layer which allows you to run any Linux executable on *BSD - but they cater to different markets - *BSD is a workhorse server for lots of functionality, but not for Oracle and the like...
Paul...
> thank you
Received on Wed Mar 28 2012 - 22:12:43 CDT