Re: oracle 10g for fedora core5

From: HansF <Fuzzy.Greybeard_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:24:02 GMT
Message-Id: <pan.2006.07.13.23.25.57.695373@gmail.com>

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:34:26 -0400, Bertie Brink wrote:

> wrote:

>> if have oracle 10g for dedora core5 version

>
> Jury is still out on Fedora 5. It works on Fedora Core 4 but Fedora Core
> 5 has had many problems with Oracle. I have had Oracle running on Fedora
> Core 4 for 1 year and so far it was been stable.
>
> Oracle doesn't officially support Fedora. They support the major distros
> like Redhat.
>

WHich makes sense, as the Fedora stream is nothing other than the public beta for the next Red Had Enterprise set. From the RedHat, Fedora site at http://www.redhat.com/fedora/ , they say Fedora is "A proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products."

Why would Oracle support, or any enterprise use in production, a beta of an OS? Even Werner Puschitz doesn't reference FC5 at his excellent site - http://www.puschitz.com

The big issues I've encountered with FC5 are: SELinux blocks everything very efficiently, and; the glibc (and other libs) is enhanced to oblivion. Then there are a few small issues as well. It's RH9 (boxed vs download) & FC1 all over again!

Basically turn off SELinux and downgrade the libraries to make it work. Which leaves you pretty much with an insecure FC4.

Discussed at length on the Oracle-hosted 'Database - General' discussion group at http://otn.oracle.com

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