Fabrizio wrote:
> Frank van Bortel wrote:
>> DA Morgan wrote:
>>
>>> NetComrade wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you had a choice between RH and SuSe which one would you pick?
>>>>
>>>> I found a post that says that Oracle develops on SuSe, but given that
>>>> we will most likely be running Veritas on Linux, so far RH AS 3.0 is
>>>> the only choice.
>>>>
>>>> However, I was curious if there is a comparison between the two
>>>> somewhere from an Oracle Admin perspective.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> .......
>>>> We use Oracle 8.1.7.4 and 9.2.0.5 on Solaris 2.7 boxes
>>>> remove NSPAM to email
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't know what Oracle develops on but there is no question that
>>> what the corporation runs itself on: Redhat.
>>
>>
>> But what would be the difference? The extras, the utilities,
>> the cream on top. Do you care? I don't.
>> The kernel would be (about) the same, apart from RH ES4 having
>> less patches that SuSE, but that is because SuSE was very fast
>> bringing out the latest kernel, whereas Red Hat waited for a
>> more mature version.
>>
>> Of course, a bit of a Linux adept would go and compile his/her
>> own kernel, wouldn't he?
>
> You would lose support from both: Oracle and the Linux vendor. :(
I was told that Oracle has a utility to check the MD5 checksums of rpm
packages installed, if they don't match the release checksums they have
grounds to refuse support. This is to deter people from installing Oracle
on "Lineox" (RH AS ripoff) and variants then attempting to qualify for
support.
Received on Tue Mar 01 2005 - 15:59:39 CST
