64 bit linux

[Net Llama!]

On 11/19/2004 03:35 PM, David A. Bandel wrote:
> 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.

Not neccesarily.  Some people think oracle is great until they start 
having to maintain it.

> |> 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

No where did I say anything about a gentoo list.  I said seraching for 
'gentoo' on metalink, oracle's official support website, which is the 
only place that you can download any oracle patchsets, in addition to 
submitting support requests, bug reports, etc.

> 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).

I'm well aware of what is required to run oracle on linux.  I'm 
unfortunately responsible for maintaining several 9iR2 servers.  I 
didn't realize that this was going to become a pissing contest.


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