Re: Article about Oracle10.2 and FC5 on ORACLE-BASE is misleading

"Bart the bear" <bartthebear_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:1143569190.948092.52150_at_z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> Fact: Oracle (all versions) and FC5 are completely incompatible because
> of the new
> glibc. When ones enter "FC5 Oracle10.2" into Google, the first thing
> that pops out
> is the following article:
> http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/10g/OracleDB10gR2InstallationOnFedora5.php
>
> This article leads to the conclusion that there is no problem with
> installing Oracle 10.2
> on FC5. Nothing could be further from the truth. This was just a "draft
> article" written
> before the final version of FC5. This final version has new glibc which
> is incompatible
> with Oracle 10.2 at the moment. This article is severely misleading.
> Please, do not
> follow the advice and do not attemt to use FC5 as an Oracle RDBMS
> server. It cannot
> be done at the moment.
> I looked through the article for an email address of the proud author
> (someone known
> as "Tim") but I couldn't find it. Therefore, I decided to publish my
> warning here.
> Look instead on OTN and on this group. OTN Forums for Linux and
> Installation have
> some good descriptions of the problem.
>

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