Re: Oracle 12c Cannot be installed on F18
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 00:47:24 +0200
Message-ID: <kqqcms$kqr$1_at_news.albasani.net>
Am 29.06.2013 19:28, schrieb Mladen Gogala: [...]
> And now, I have another reason for running Fedora: CentOS doesn't have a
> version of evolution which supports EWS (Exchange Web Services) which
> means that would have to use web mail again.
> I gave CentOS another look, just to see whether I should use it as my
> basic distro and there are several things missing: perl-5.16 (can be
> obtained from Activestate), PHP-5.4 (can be built locally) and
> evolution-ews, which I cannot replace. However, the fact that Fedora is
> now just a container distro, used for running VirtualBox, opens the field
> a bit, since I can also use Ubuntu 13.04. Fedora is really starting to
> get on my nerves with its installer, lack of configuration possibilities
> (grub2,systemctl) and updates which occasionally sc*w up my X11 system
> because the kernel updates are released without the accompanying NVIDIA
> module.
For all of my Oracle playground installations, I now only use CentOS 6.4; it's just rock solid and the advantage is that you just can go ahead according to the Oracle installation instructions for RHEL . I also use CentOS as a host as well as a guest for Oracle Virtualbox, and it runs without a glitch.
As far as the NVIDIA driver is concerned, I never tried using NV kernel modules from ElRepo, but instead I just install dkms (from EPEL), and use the original NVIDIA Linux driver installer downloadable from their website. Since 310.something, it works well together with dkms, i.e. when you install a new kernel version, a matching driver kernel module is rebuilt automatically.
I look at Linux Mint with MATE from time to time, and I like it, and I tend to have a recent version of Fedora at least in a VM to keep up with whatever new functionality is ahead. But generally, I must say that I don't like the direction desktop Linux distros are taking. E.g. KDE 3.5 was fine, but KDE 4.x is another story. I dislike it just because of reasons of taste, but I think it is the least annoying desktop around currently. Ubuntu with Unity is just a mess, and Gnome 3 is IMHO, from a usability POV, a complete disaster (as is Win8). So on all of Linux boxes as well as on my laptop, I think I will enjoy CentOS 6 with Gnome 2 till the end of support and I hope that in the meantime, all this desktop crazyness will just go away.
Regards
Peter
-- Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. -- David McCullough Jr.Received on Mon Jul 01 2013 - 00:47:24 CEST