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[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 16:56:40 -0800:

|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.

No arguments there.

|
|> |> 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.

Then I misread your comment.  But folks trying to run Oracle on
something not approved by Oracle then expecting support aren't very
bright.  You can't expect Oracle to train support folks to support every
iteration of every distro out there.  That would be true for any package
as complicated as Oracle.

|
|> 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.

I too support Oracle installations, albeit reluctantly.

You're the only one pissing here.  I only said Oracle can be run on
other than RH.  And it can.  Oracle isn't fun on RH, it's less fun on
anything else, but it will run if ... (long laundry list deleted).

I've always said, and will continue to say:  Linux is linux no matter
the distro name.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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