Re: Which Linux?

Frank van Bortel wrote:
> jbmorla_at_gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I read from Oracle technology Network that Linux Red Hat Fedora 4 is
> > recommended to install 10 G 2.
> > So I downloaded the five ISO files from the Fedora site.
> > The documentation suddenly indicates that I have to boot from the CD
> > drive with a "boot.iso" file.
> > Unfortunately, it doesnot tell how to make this image on a CD R
> > Also I read a few postings from the fedora mailing lists and many user
> > give out and declare they just won't go near Fedora any more because of
> > silly problems.
> > So my question is: Anyone installed 10 G 2 on a given Linux and lives
> > happy ever after?
> >
> > Have a nice day
> >
>
> If you created the CD's from the iso downloads, CD 1 should
> be bootable - iso is a complete image.
>
> Apart from that, Fedora is not on the list of supported
> software - one of the things Fedora suffers from is that
> it is on the move, and there are too many releases per year.

Bingo.

> In stead, there are several no cost Red Hat Server derivate s,
> like White Box Linux; iso images at
> http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/download.html

Frank does have a good point but White Box Linux is getting somewhat dated. Centos is now the most supported Red Hat clone.

Centos 4.2 should be the best choice for 10.2.

> Just read the Oracle installation as if it were Red Hat Advanced
> Server (RHAS). I recommend the version 3 of WBL (a.k.a. RHAS 3).

Disagree see above. Excellent install articles also available at Jeffrey Hunter's website www.idevelopment.info .

> And your "silly" problems may well be written about on Werner
> Puschitz' pages (http://www.puschitz.com/), an excellent site
> on Linux in general, and Oracle on Linux in particular

Correct. Received on Sun Jan 08 2006 - 07:13:31 CST