RE: Oracle & FC6

Hi Mladen 
 
I will say at this time Open Suse is a goer, I have an OpenSuse server in the 
office running on some crap Dell hardware. Suse  installed painlessly and after 
a bit of googling linked up to a page here 
http://dizwell.com/main/content/view/94/1/ with how to get 10G running and a 
few downloads later and Oracle has been running without issue for a number of 
weeks as a test and training platform.
 
Seems a lot easier than some others The Suse installer is smooth and easy to 
follow IMHO
 
HTH
 
Cheers
 
 
 
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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Mladen Gogala
Sent: Sat 4/11/2006 3:50 PM
To: oracle-l
Subject: Oracle & FC6



I just installed FC6 on a partition and tried to install Oracle 10.2.0.1 for 
x86.
I did install libaio, libaio-devel, compat-libstdc++ and all the rest, but the 
installation
was unsuccessful. Both GUI tools (dbca and netca) crapped out during the 
installation phase,
which was a bad sign. When I manually configured all the files, created 
background_dump_dest
and its brethren cdump and udump, initTST.ora, orapwTST and the whole 9 yards, 
sqlplus "/ as sysdba"
was just hanging there. FC5 was creating huge problems and now FC6 seems to go 
along the same
path. It looks like Fedora will cease being a usable distribution for Oracle. 
I'm making
my mind between CentOS which would leave me within the generally well known and 
supported
world of Red Hat or Ubuntu, recent new favorite of the Oracle Corp. Of course, 
my FC4 still
works. From what I read, Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian, only marginally 
adjusted to be
usable by humans. It doesn't look good. Of course, with the recent war games 
between Oracle
and Red Hat, there are no guarantees that Oracle will support EL5, even if it 
comes out soon.
Patch sets are far between and of lower and lower quality. Patchset 9.2.0.8 is 
still not
available for Linux, despite being out on SUN for months. Linux doesn't look 
like a tier 1
platform that it was promised to be. Solaris x86 is in worse situation still. 
From afar,
it looks like Oracle Corp. is in utter disarray, quite incapable of producing 
decent quality
code. Oh, and FC6 is not much better, it overwrote all of my GRUB entries end 
wiped the
/boot filesystem clean. Have I not had a backup, I would have been in a bad 
predicament.
Jesus saves and so do I, to a DVD, whenever possible.

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