oracle and GNU/Linux on x86 or Sparc / Installfests, meetings?

[dvmail at texas.net]

For Sparc, I've used SuSE 7.3 and had good luck with it.
You might look at ...

SPARC-HOWTO
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SPARC-HOWTO.html

http://www.google.com/search?q=Sparc&btnG=Google+Search&domains=www.distrowatch.com&sitesearch=www.distrowatch.com
shows 
www.distrowatch.com/aurora
www.distrowatch.com/vine
www.distrowatch.com/gentoo
www.distrowatch.com/kondara
www.distrowatch.com/slackware.php
etc.

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Oracle 9i under RedHat Linux 8.x and 9.x - Simple Installation HOWTO
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Oracle-9i-RH8-and-RH9-HOWTO.html
though RHL9 is no longer supported, you might be able to apply some of this info
to RHEL, and/or the free version thereof...
http://whiteboxlinux.com/

Daniel Villarreal
P.S. Are there any computer shows in this town? Install fests? GNU/Linux
educational initiatives, anything? 



On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 15:26:02 -0400 Justin Bennett <Justin.Bennett at dynabrade.com>
wrote:
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They compile oracle for linux sparc? Any reason you want to run it on 
Sparc? We run oracle/linux for our production database here and 
overseas. Got a lot more bang for our buck with linux/x86 than the E450 
we were running with solaris. We run Redhat 2.1ES (not going to help you 
on sparc) it runs great. We run it because It's one of the "certified" 
os's under oracle's "Unbreakable Linux" platform, and it has a longer 
life cycle than say something free like fedora, updates are avaliable 
for 5 year+, as long as you keep paying for your entitlement. 

Justin Bennett
Network Administrator
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Robert Meyer wrote:
I have a Sun E250 that we are going to be experimenting with Linux/Oracle on. 
Which Linux distribution works the best with Sun Boxen and why?  The 'why' part
is important.  I especially need to have a version that will work with Oracle
10g.

Outta be a fun experiment.  I haven't been able to play with a Sun in a while.
Cheers!
Bob
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