RE: redhat/oracle

Mladen,

Save yourself from RPM hell and try Gentoo. I ended up converting a box at home from RH8 to Gentoo after much prodding by a co-worker or two. I admit it's muuuuch easier to install/build packages under Gentoo because of portage's dependency list that RPMs somehow seem to lack. I gave up trying to install Kino (non-linear editor/video capture) on RH8. On Gentoo, it's "emerge -pv kino" to see what it's going to do, then "emerge -v kino" to actually do it.

And I've mentioned here before that Oracle 9iR2 was an a trouble-free install on it, too! (to help keep this on-topic)

I suppose there is a potential argument for SuSE because of the "pseudo-supported by Oracle" thing....

Rich

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
rjesse_at_qtiworld.com                  Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:mgogala_at_adelphia.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 10:59 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: redhat/oracle
>
>
> I'll try my luck with SuSE. It apparently has IBM support. Red Hat is
> starting to act badly and brings memories of one former Xenix reseller
> which made fortune by selling operating system written by IBM.
>
> On 2003.11.03 23:24, Jared Still wrote:
> > This is news to me. RH will no longer let you download
> Linux for free?
> >
> > hmmm....
> >
> > Sure enough, look at http://www.redhat.com/apps/commerce/rhel/ws/
> >
> > The cheapest version is $179.00 US. Looks like the next version
> > for me will be Gentoo.
> >
> > Jared
> >
> > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 17:54, Joe Testa wrote:
> > > Well with RH latest ordeal of jumping out of simple ISOs
> and basically
> > > no more free software, what is oracle's stand on running
> on RH?, the
> > > paid version only from now on and those linux users out
> there, what are
> > > WE going to do?
> > >
> > > Looking to see if i need to spend money before end of year for tax
> > > write-off :)
> > >
> > > joe

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