Re: slackware+oracle

+Alan Hicks+ <alan_at_lizella.netWORK> wrote in message news:<4163570e$1_5_at_newsfeed.slurp.net>...
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> In alt.os.linux.slackware, Howard J. Rogers dared to utter,
> > last time I checked, it said 'Red Hat Enterprise Server 2.1 and 3.0,
> > along with United Linux (and now Suse has been added to the list).
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> Really? It continues to be supported on United Linux? Did anyone _ever_
> use United Linux? Checking their website now, the last update was
> 2003-04-22. I remember hearing something back about a year ago that
> United Linux closed its doors and only had one person still "employed"
> outside of third party attorneys handling the legal matters that
> resulted from the split-up when Caldera became the SCO Group and went
> on a rampage against the rest of the world.
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> Frankly I'm surprised that Oracle was ever supported on United Linux.
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A very common mistake was to think of United Linux as a product. IIRC, UL 1 never was intended to be a 'product' or 'distro', but rather a spec for commercial distros to follow.

I have used, and am very very pleased, with United Linux 1.0 - as delivered by SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 8.

Probably due to the Caldera fiasco, ORacle's certify indicates (paraphrased)

'Existing UL customers with existing Oracle support contracts will continue to be supported on the existing versions of Oracle (8i, 9i), but Oracle will not support 10g on UL'.

Certify indicates good support of the SLES8 distro of UL1. Oracle has also started to roll out certifications for SLES9.

I doubt Oracle will every certify any of the non-commercial flavors of Linux (SuSE pro, Fedora, Debian, etc.) simply because there is no one person or organization with whom Oracle can discuss required changes and standards. (In the freeware side, controlled anarchy is encouraged! <g>)

/Hans Received on Wed Oct 06 2004 - 12:04:07 CDT