Re: Oracle certification on linux

From: Jan Pruner <JPruner_at_email.cz>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 04:26:50 +0100
Message-ID: <402AF27A.3030306@email.cz>

The source code for SuSE is available. You will get it on DVD if you buy a distribution. Or you can install it from SuSE FTP server (there is a source too).

United Linux 1.0 and SuSE is/was not synonymous. SuSE Linux is based on United Linux "standards". 2 or 3 weeks ago Novell leaved United Linux group and I think, United Linux is now dead.

Jacques Kilchoer wrote:

> SUSE Linux (owned by Novell) is a distribution sold commercially but for =
> which the source code is not available, and SUSE is one of the partners =
> in United Linux which is now defunct.
> 
> So United Linux 1.0 and SUSE Linux would be synonymous.
> 
> So when you say "cooker" is your favourite Linux version for an Oracle =
> database I don't understand because I thought that cooker meant a "beta" =
> distribution.
> 
> Is the information I see on this webpage accurate?
> http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=3Dmajor
> 
> 
> 
>

>>-----Original Message-----
>>Mladen Gogala
>>=20
>>On 02/11/2004 03:24:09 PM, Jacques Kilchoer wrote:
>>:
>>
>>>=20
>>>For those of you running Linux in production - do you stick=20
>>
>>with an =3D
>>
>>>Oracle certified release?
>>
>>=20
>>Yes. No supported release =3D> no support. If I get ORA-600 (which, of =

> 
> =20
>

>>course, never happens) I need to have someone to ask for help.
>>=20
>>
>>>I'm not talking about the cowboys that
>>>install =3D
>>>on a laptop for testing purposes and compile Linux from scratch with
>>>the =3D
>>>right tweaks to avoid ORA-600 errors.
>>
>>=20
>>You'll be interested to learn that I achieved a good performance on =20
>>both cooker and RH-9 with JFS downloaded directly from IBM=20
>>and compiled
>>directly into the kernel. JFS supports "setall" value in the =20
>>"filesystemio_options" parameter and 1.1.4 has had some performance =20
>>optimizations. That is, I suppose, what you call "cowboy stuff".
>>I love cooker for always being on the bleeding edge.
>>=20
>>
>>>=20
>>>My guess would be that most Oracle installations on Linux=20
>>
>>are either =20
>>
>>>=3D
>>>RedHat or SuSe - is there a survey out there that shows=20
>>
>>which Linux =3D
>>
>>>versions are most popular for Oracle databases?
>>
>>=20
>>Cooker. Definitely Cooker. It's my personal favorite. I like=20
>>sticking =20
>>with known stuff, unlike some fans of the Gentoo distribution.
>

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Re: Oracle certification on linux - it's a madhouse!