Re: Moveing to Linux for Windows - Choose Oracle Linux?

From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 13:15:05 -0600
Message-ID: <CAJvnOJaqrbtG+KEpNb9kKo4CvFwbOxUwUs-CU3JK880pU1JttQ_at_mail.gmail.com>

I like OEL, though in my experience RHEL is a little more common. In my opinion, one is as good as the other, and OEL does have the advantage of being an Oracle product, and support is fairly cheap.

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Stephan Uzzell <stephan.uzzell_at_oracle.com> wrote:

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> *From:* Mark J. Bobak [mailto:mark_at_bobak.net]
> *Sent:* Friday, December 11, 2015 1:58 PM
> *To:* Jeff Chirco <backseatdba_at_gmail.com>
> *Cc:* oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> *Subject:* Re: Moveing to Linux for Windows - Choose Oracle Linux?
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> I can't think of any reason not to. In fact, in your position, with noone
> that has any pre-conceived notions or prejudices, I'd definitiely recommend
> ORacle Linux.
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> Mainly, because of the following:
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> - Oracle optimized UEK (Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel)
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> - availability of preinstall package
> (oracle-rdbms-server-12cR1-preinstall) to very quickly set up almost all
> prerequisites in one easy step
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> - ASMLib kernel module is built in to UEK, and Other ASMLib pacakages
> available via yum.
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> It's my preferred distribution for Oracle server systems.
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> -Mark
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> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Jeff Chirco <backseatdba_at_gmail.com>
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> So we are going to be converting our database from Windows 2008R2 64bit
> over to Linux. We are not currently a big Linux shop so we don't have a
> preference on the flavor. I am just assuming we would go with Oracle
> Linux. Seems like it should be the perfect match. Any reason why not?
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