Linux

[Jeslek]

Eh, I am not overly fond of Linux, but suppose I want to run Oracle off it, which version would you suggest? I already run Redhat on another machine and have two spare computers to put into production. One is going to get Windows 2K Server with IIS, MTS, and all that, and the other is going to get a Linux (or Solaris perhaps), Apache, PHP, and Oracle.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[HeXp£Øi±]

Jerrek!! Jerrek? I just now noticed that was you.

 

[Luis G]

SuSe, RedHat or mdk

 

[Jeslek]

Why? I need some reasons hehe...

 

[Luis G]

redhat, widely used.
Suse, german made, powerful, high security.
mdk, is redhat based, easy of use, has some powerful tools.

 

[fury]

FreeBSD is a much better OS for server operation, from what I hear.

 

[Jeslek]

FreeBSD is a much better OS for server operation, from what I hear.

Then I would install Solaris. I think I will install Mandrake. SuSE doesn't have ISOs, so that immediately pissed me off. Redhat, well, I already have a Redhat machine. Someone else recommended Mandrake.

 

[Altron]

Run a google search and find some.

 

[PT]

http://www.linuxiso.org/

http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=2

^suse iso's, you just have to know where to look.

 

[Jeslek]

http://www.linuxiso.org/

http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=2

^suse iso's, you just have to know where to look.

Those are live-eval ISOs, meaning they boot from the CD and you don't install it as far as I know. Its a "demo" of SuSE. They want you to download the installation disks, make dists, and then point the install to their ftp website. Its retarded.

 

[Luis G]

I haven't tried Suse because of that reason, although they don't provide ISOs because their distros have 3rd party non-free software. But still, they should make an ISO free version, just like mandrake.

 

[dan]

i thought that oracle only officially supported redhat... or have they stopped doing even that now?

solaris on a sun box would be the obvious choice... but if it's gotta be linux then find out what oracle reccommend and use that

 

[PostCode]

If your doing a server install, use FreeBSD. SOlaris is cool and all, but it's not free. FreeBSD is and the community has a greater number of followers.

 

[Jeslek]

If your doing a server install, use FreeBSD. SOlaris is cool and all, but it's not free. FreeBSD is and the community has a greater number of followers.

Solaris is free for personal use. And I can get it free at university.

 

[PostCode]

Personal use, yes. FreeBSD's community is much larger regardless. Support for it is anywhere Linux is plus some.

 

[dan]

it doesn't matter

Personal use, yes. FreeBSD's community is much larger regardless. Support for it is anywhere Linux is plus some.

Just to be clear, my two colocated servers run FreeBSD, one of them currently tells me it's been up for 420 days.

However, for this application it may not be the best choice.

Oracle is pretty much an operating system in itself. can't you skip an OS alltogether and run oracle on the bare metal? Really, there's no point having a holy war on the relative merits of solaris, freebsd and whatever flavour du jour of linux is good, if oracle plain doesn't run on it.

Oracle is big, complicated and hardcore. Install it on something it's supposed to work on.

 

[PostCode]

Very ture.