--- Pete Sharman <peter.sharman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jonathan > > I know nothing of a free distribution for Linux > either, but at least the link gets you to the > certification page correctly. That's all I was > trying to do. > > Some of the other posts on white box Linux (if > that's the name - no doubt Paul will correct me if > not) look interesting though. > > Pete Hi Pete. I didn't follow thru on installing white box linux. Red Hat came thru with a reasonably priced developer edition - 5 seats of software with support for 1 year, $299. That entitles you to WS, ES or AS editions. I just wanted to be able to certify on ES and to be able to open TARs. Ok, I wanted async support (I think) and to hop on the v2.6.x _supported kernels train when they are available. Call me lazy, but this was what I was after, and I pushed no further (with white box linux). btw - rhn is a fast connection. I don't think that $749 /year for Red Hat (RHEL) 3.0 ES is out of line (with support, list) for running Oracle Server in production. That is less expensive than purchasing a comperable win32 server operating system with a support contract ($795 + $2800 for 3 years = $1200/yr). Just ordered another 512MB of memory for the laptop for under $100 from crucial.com. 1 GB ought to be enough :) maybe. Paul > > > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Jonathan Gennick > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 8:40 AM > To: Pete Sharman > Subject: Re[3]: Linux at a reasonable price > > Tuesday, February 24, 2004, 10:17:00 AM, Pete > Sharman (peter.sharman@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > PS> Depends on your definition of works. Shows a > page - might be a 404 page, but it's still a > PS> page. :) > > PS> Try > http://www.oracle.com/education/certification > instead. > > I see nothing on that page about a free distribution > of > Linux. Can you provide a more specific link? > > > Best regards, > > Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you > are > http://Gennick.com * 906.387.1698 * > mailto:jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxx > > Join the Oracle-article list and receive one > article on Oracle technologies per month by > email. To join, visit > http://four.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/oracle-article, > > or send email to Oracle-article-request@xxxxxxxxxxx > and > include the word "subscribe" in either the subject > or body. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: > http://www.orafaq.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe send email to: > oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. > -- > Archives are at > //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ > FAQ is at > //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: > http://www.orafaq.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe send email to: > oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. > -- > Archives are at > //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ > FAQ is at > //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------