RE: Oracle on Linux ..... Red Hat vs. Suse

Mandrake 8.1/8.2 works really well with Oracle 9i Release 2.

It's RH compatible, meaning applications are numerous but it does not have the faulty compiler and it's still free unlike Suse. Downloads are easy to get at as well. A lot easier than RH and Suse.

ltiu

Quoting "Gogala, Mladen" <MGogala_at_oxhp.com>:

> Well, I switched from RH 6.2 to SuSE 7.2 (now I'm running 8.0)
> and here are my impressions:
> 1) RH was using a proprietary compiler (gcc 2.96) and libraries
> were incompatible with many independent pieces of software.
> In particular, Oracle installation was a genuine nightmare.
> No way I'm going back to RH while they're using that @#$!
> compiler.
> 2) Availability of software for SuSE is very poor. Nothing on the
> rpmfind.net,
> their website is lousy and they are working very hard to make it even
> worse. In particular, they used to have a subdirectory called
> "full-names"
> where one could find all rpm packages that were officially available for
> a
> given release. That was far too easy, so they removed that directory and
> replaced it with the file "INDEX.gz" which you are supposed to download,
>
> "zgrep" for the given package and then download it from it's location.
> 3) SuSE technical support is bad and less then useless. RH wasn't a shining
> example of customer service either, but SuSE really shows you what the
> word
> untermensch really means.
> 4) SuSE kernel is tainted and is not reporting version the way it's
> supposed
> to.
> That confuses the heck out of the utilities like OSS sound drivers. When
> I
> asked SuSE for help they told me to use ALSA (I've paid for OSS and with
> ALSA
> my mic was dead as dodo). When further pressed, they told me that kernel
> relinking
> is for gurus only and to stay away from that nasty stuff. Eventually, I
> downloaded
> a standard kernel, linked it to fit my HW, installed OSS and it worked
> perfectly.
> SuSE kernel has completely unexpected dependencies and cannot be
> compiled
> easily
> without the help from SuSE. The latter is impossible to get.
> 5) Software is installed in curious places (xmms is installed under
> /usr/X11
> so that
> you cannot use plugin rpms) and is always at least a version behind.
> Ximian GNOME
> doesn't work quite well and one needs an expert to do so, otherwise,
> only
> KDE is
> left.
> 6) SuSE has memory test as one of the booting options which was an
> extremely
>
> convenient thing when I was installing additional memory and my DIMM was
> bad.
> 7) The latest RH betas are done with gcc 3.1 which is an official gcc
> release.
> As soon as that hits production, I'm switching back to RH, especially
> now
> when
> RH and Oracle Corp. resolved their differences.
>
> Mladen Gogala
> Oracle DBA
> Phone: (203) 459-6855
> Email: mgogala_at_oxhp.com
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lembark_at_wrkhors.com [mailto:lembark_at_wrkhors.com]
> > Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 4:10 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: Re: Oracle on Linux ..... Red Hat vs. Suse
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -- Christopher Royce <ffm9np_at_onsemi.com> on 07/22/02 08:53:32 -0800
> >
> > > Have been unable to arrive at a definitive position
> >
> > There isn't one. There are tradeoffs between the two distro's.
> > Most of it comes down to which one you are more comfortable
> > with or which one does more things (including the installation)
> > that you cannot fathom.
> >
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