64 bit linux

[David A. Bandel]

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Regurgitating the prose of Net Llama! Net Llama!
<netllama at linux-sxs.org> on Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:25:43 -0500 (EST):

|On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, David Bandel wrote:
|> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:02:49 -0500 (EST), Net Llama!
|> <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
|> > If you're looking to run oracle, then you need to select something
|that> > oracle has qualified for the OS.  I know that oracle has locked
|down 10i> > so that it won't even install on anything but a 'blessed'
|os.> >
|> >
|>
|> No, they locked it down so novices without a clue can't figure out
|how
|
|Sure you can hack /etc/redhat-release or the equivalent, but that's not
|the best idea of you want to get support from oracle.  I fail to see
|why anyone would choose oracle for anything unless ther was a business
|driver(and hence oracle support $$$) in the picture.

Then if that was the case, I'm sure this post would never have happened,
he'd have just bought (or the company would have said to buy) RHES.

|
|> to install it on an "unapproved" distribution.  It will run just
|fine,
|
|That's most definitely not true.  Go to metalink and search for gentoo
|and read all the nightmare stories about problems people run into.  Or
|search for other distros while you're at it.  Oracle does not 'run just
|fine' on any linux distro.

To judge whether or not _any_ app will run by checking the Gentoo list
as a barometer is not going to cut it.  There are definitely more things
than just hacking /etc/redhat-release (in case you didn't know).  One
kernel setting that must be turned on is support for 4Gb of memory (to
name just one off-the-wall config that is required -- I'd have to look
hard to remember the others and even then I might miss some, but for
sure the SysV and semaphore stuff is absolutely required and probably
forgotten by the clueless Gentoo lusers).

|
|> but does need some kernel configs turned on and some tweaks to
|> /proc/sys.  The OS is Linux no matter what distro it is.
|
|Sure, but we're talking about oracle, which doesn't just drop into
|place.
|

No, but it runs on Linux.  Period.  (Well, OK, maybe not that abortion
called Lindows or whatever it is now.)

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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