Re: Which Linux for Oracle 9i on AMD Opteron?

From: Frank van Bortel <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net>
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:02:52 +0100
Message-ID: <d02e4h$t0o$1@news2.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>

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?

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel

Received on Tue Mar 01 2005 - 13:02:52 CST