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тАО11-20-2003 06:52 AM
тАО11-20-2003 06:52 AM
Redhat - Winds of Change
I must have patch support and the OS must be able to run Oracle and I want a strong command line interface. I hate it when the best way to do something is through a GUI only! Right now I am looking at SUSE or mandrake as a primary replacement for RH.
Any and all input is greatly appreciated!
--Jim
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тАО11-20-2003 07:21 AM
тАО11-20-2003 07:21 AM
Re: Redhat - Winds of Change
It will take over support and development of the free versions. I believe that might be what you are looking for.
You can get AS support from Red Hat for as little as $349.
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тАО11-20-2003 07:27 AM
тАО11-20-2003 07:27 AM
Re: Redhat - Winds of Change
I am using SuSE for a couple of years now on my private gear. Generally I do like them, although for a production environment I would check a new distro on a test system before depoloying it on the servers (but hey,this I do/would do with any OS ;-)
They should be able to put up more of a presence in the US since they were bought by Novell very recently.
Greetings, Martin
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тАО11-20-2003 02:19 PM
тАО11-20-2003 02:19 PM
Re: Redhat - Winds of Change
I too have just entered a similar scenario. We were just fixing to launch some new servers using RH 9 then we saw the announcement.
I do have a server that just completed one full year of uptime service running SuSE 8.0, Apache, MySQL and sendmail. This server moves over 55GB/mo. Can't vouch for Oracle support but I did see library support for Oracle.
Now that Novell owns SuSE, who knows whats going to happen ... JFS and Reiser removed in favor of Netware volumes !?! ;-)
What about Debian?
Best regards,
-erik
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тАО11-20-2003 05:31 PM
тАО11-20-2003 05:31 PM
Re: Redhat - Winds of Change
I ran SuSe on several servers for a couple of years and was really pleasantly surprised. As long as you remember to disable SuSe-Config as soon as you have installed the box, it behaves almost like a Unix box :). It comes pretty close to Red Hat in terms of support though that might change now that Novell are involved. I know IBM run Oracle on SuSe at several sites and it is supported by Oracle.
We are moving to Slackware on several machines because it doesn't do much which is just how we like it :)
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тАО11-20-2003 05:31 PM
тАО11-20-2003 05:31 PM
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тАО11-20-2003 06:20 PM
тАО11-20-2003 06:20 PM
Re: Redhat - Winds of Change
Same issue for us, RH since 5.2.
We are turning to fedora, assuming we'll be able to decide what needs to be updated and not, not getting the latest package just because it has been released...
We are not turning to mandrake, because we feel it's often too heavy, and not as efficient as redhat, as far as stability and home made tools are concerned.
Not to Suse either, for the community seems to be less wide than RH based one. Of course, this is in no way criticising these distro, just our local feeling. If your purpose is just Oracle and command line, Suse is said to be strong on Oracle support, being the first to have been officialy supported by Oracle...
ht help you choose.
J
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тАО11-21-2003 01:37 AM
тАО11-21-2003 01:37 AM
Re: Redhat - Winds of Change
I had a little problem installing a virus scanner deployed as an RPM. However, once I worked out the dependencies and got it installed
it has worked flawlessly.
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тАО11-21-2003 05:07 AM
тАО11-21-2003 05:07 AM
Re: Redhat - Winds of Change
Martin: Our Assiociate Director is our old network admin and he is big on Novell and what they could do with SUSE. I just need to find out what applications are supported on SUSE. And I live by your testing any and all OS thoughly.
Mark: Thanks for the oracle info!
Jerome: Another mark for SUSE and oracle. I'm not against doing my own patching but I have 36 systems to maintain all by my lonesome and need any help I can get. I have truly fallen in love with CPM and up2date!
Thanks for the input! Keep it coming! I'll keep checking this thread. I can't get online as much as I used to at the moment due to a serious upgrade we are doing over the holiday break and all the last minute details need buttoned up.
--Jim
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тАО11-21-2003 08:16 AM
тАО11-21-2003 08:16 AM
Re: Redhat - Winds of Change
It looks like Debian was hit yesterday. See:
http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-November/014019.html
-erik