Tim X wrote:
>>>>>>"Glen" == Glen A Stromquist <glen_stromquist_at_no.spam.yahoo.com> writes:
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> Glen> With our new T1 connection here I have been downloading some of
> Glen> the other distro's to try as well, but thats a "spare-time"
> Glen> thing, not a lot of that around right now! I do want to try an
> Glen> Oracle install on a debian and a BSD flavour though. The
> Glen> dbaclick.com group has some pretty knowledgeable linux people
> Glen> there, and a nice forum layout if you care to have a look.
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> If you do development in various languages etc, Debian is great! Of
> all the distros I've tried, Debian has the best package management -
> especially if you have a fast connection. You just install a minimal
> distribution and then when you need something you just type
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> apt-get install package
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> The really nice thing is you don't get into the dependency spiral
> diving I use to sometimes get with RPM. If your into emacs, I've found
> Debian to have the best selection of emacs packages - and if you like
> lisp, scheme, perl, tcl/tk, c, c++, python etc - its got them all.
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> My only criticism of Debian is that it has one of the slowest release
> cycles. The current stable release 'woody' has only been out for about
> 5 months and its their first release with the 2.4.x kernel - most
> other distros like Red Hat have had a few releases since the 2.4.x
> kernel came out.
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> The Debian 'testing' release is pretty good - more current than the
> stable release and is in fact very stable. I'm currently running
> the bleeding edge unstable release at home and testing at work. The
> unstable release seems to be pretty stable so far (touch wood). I have
> Oracle running (8.1.7) on both systems - but it can be a bit tricky to
> get the libraries correct and I did the install while still running
> woody.
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> Tim
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I have to agree - whilst most of the time I can install a tarball or rpm
without a lot of grief, there are too many times when you get into
"install failed because lib-blah-blah is needed", then you go to get
that lib-blah-blah and install it, and get the same thing - and on it goes.
I just got permission to take an old workstation home and play with it,
so I think I'll put another drive or two on it and set it up with a
debian and a bsd distro and test them out. But for running Oracle on a
production environment, I'll be sticking to SuSE or RH as they are
supported by Oracle.
cheers!
Received on Tue Feb 11 2003 - 08:59:57 CST
