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I'm tempted to get Red Hat Linux Enterprise 3 (WS) -- Workstation Edition, just to see if I can install Oracle 9i on it without all these peoblems. :D
Jeff would you post a link advising people on software to get if they wanted to go cold turkey on Windoze? You seem to be the expert on RH9.
I'd wondered about that kind of thing, but didn't want to spend $00's So, has anyone any experience with http://www.whiteboxlinux.org ?Quote:
Originally posted by gandolf989
I'm tempted to get Red Hat Linux Enterprise 3 (WS) -- Workstation Edition, just to see if I can install Oracle 9i on it without all these peoblems. :D
Quote:
Originally posted by gandolf989
I'm tempted to get Red Hat Linux Enterprise 3 (WS) -- Workstation Edition, just to see if I can install Oracle 9i on it without all these peoblems. :D
I don't have it either, but I'm contemplating an upgrade.
Oh, I don't know about that. I run RH9 at home and RH EL 3.0 at work. I went cold-turkey from W2K (at home) a little over a year ago because I was sick and tired of wasting time with virus scanners, pop-up blockers, and adware removers. For the things I want to do at home, RH9 is just fine for me. Most of the software that come with RH9 is fine. The only apps I have installed (above the base RH9) are:Quote:
Jeff would you post a link advising people on software to get if they wanted to go cold turkey on Windoze? You seem to be the expert on RH9.
Mozilla Firebird
Mozilla Thunderbird
Cisco VPN
Apache
Oracle 9/10
If you're going to experiment and you'll want to twiddle with Oracle, I'd just go with Fedora from RH.Quote:
Originally posted by DaPi
I'd wondered about that kind of thing, but didn't want to spend $00's So, has anyone any experience with http://www.whiteboxlinux.org ?
Looks like that could well do it. Thanks for the hint Jeff.
(I'll be back in a few days to do a double act with ptreeves ;)).
As John Stuart would say, "Whaaaaaaa??????"Quote:
Originally posted by DaPi
(I'll be back in a few days to do a double act with ptreeves ;)).
One of the things that is keeping me from making the switch is that I am the editor of an outdoor newsletter in my spare time. www.pittecp.orgQuote:
Originally posted by marist89
I don't have it either, but I'm contemplating an upgrade.
Oh, I don't know about that. I run RH9 at home and RH EL 3.0 at work. I went cold-turkey from W2K (at home) a little over a year ago because I was sick and tired of wasting time with virus scanners, pop-up blockers, and adware removers. For the things I want to do at home, RH9 is just fine for me. Most of the software that come with RH9 is fine. The only apps I have installed (above the base RH9) are:
Mozilla Firebird
Mozilla Thunderbird
Cisco VPN
Apache
Oracle 9/10 [/B]
Jeff, brace yourself, I do the newsletter in Word 2000 :o , and believe it or not, Word Sucks!!!!!!
I'm haven't decided on what to switch to yet. Any ideas?
RH9 comes with OpenOffice, a MS Office clone. In theory, you can import Word documents and work with them. I did my resume with it and it looks OK. It might be OK for something like a newsletter, but you'd have to futz with it.Quote:
Originally posted by gandolf989
Jeff, brace yourself, I do the newsletter in Word 2000 :o , and believe it or not, Word Sucks!!!!!!
I'm haven't decided on what to switch to yet. Any ideas?
As an alternative (albeit a sucky one), there is WINE, a windows emulator. You basically end up running a Windows window on your linux box and you can run windows apps.
Also, you could always dual-boot Windows and Linux. Not quite cold turkey, but gets you exposed to the technology. Better still, get yourself a new computer! (or get your work to get you a laptop since you always have to be on-call!)
I'm a developer, on call doesn't exist for me. No pager, no laptop and they don't have my cell number. My time is my own.Quote:
Originally posted by marist89
(or get your work to get you a laptop since you always have to be on-call!)
But a laptop wouln't be bad in any case. I really want to get a 64 bit machine with a 64 bit os. I wonder if I can get Open VMS on a laptop? :p
Only if you can give them your system number.
I don't need no stinkin system number! ;)Quote:
Originally posted by marist89
Only if you can give them your system number.
ptreves: if you want to continue posting on your install thread, don't post here.
hey!
a suggestion here: y dont u try installing Solaris on Intel as well as Oracle10g for Solaris x386 ?? hee....it out now!!
that would be x86 not x386 :)
Sorry to disappoint everyone - no double act . . . here's my "blog":Quote:
Originally posted by DaPi
I'll be back in a few days to do a double act with ptreeves ;).
- wasted about a week of "fiddling" time trying to get FC2 to recognise a prehistoric SCSI card (aha151) - in the end had to borrow something more modern.
- wasted some more time running out of space (only have 0.4, 2.0 and 2.4 GB disks - basically it's scrap hardware).
- had to learn about X-server 'coz I skrewed up over Tim Hall's*** installation instructions (my fault - logon and su AREN'T the same thing!)
- "fiddled" a 9.2 db creation script until it worked for 10g.
- netmgr & dbca ran "straight out of the box"
Actually I'm disappointed too - I haven't had half as much fun as ptreeves had ;) What am I doing wrong?
Perhaps the only real disappointment was how much hard work the process was, if you don't have vast amounts of memory & disk. I'd installed Win2000 server and 8.1.7 on this machine in one evening (with time for dinner and playing with the cat) - couldn't do that with Fedora & 10g (even without the mistakes). Surprised how much resource Linux needs.
*** must add that, if followed to the letter, Tim's instructions work perfectly. Thanks Tim.
Why don't you buy one of these?Quote:
Originally posted by DaPi
- wasted about a week of "fiddling" time trying to get FC2 to recognise a prehistoric SCSI card (aha151) - in the end had to borrow something more modern.
- wasted some more time running out of space (only have 0.4, 2.0 and 2.4 GB disks - basically it's scrap hardware).
Then you will be able to run Oracle. ;)
I AM running Oracle and on a "server" that cost me $0.00 :)Quote:
Originally posted by gandolf989 Then you will be able to run Oracle. ;)
You win the prize! ;)Quote:
Originally posted by DaPi
I AM running Oracle and on a "server" that cost me $0.00 :)
I've been using OpenOffice exclusively for over a year, swapping documents (.doc/.xls/ .ppt) with work collegues seamlessly.Quote:
Originally posted by marist89
RH9 comes with OpenOffice, a MS Office clone. In theory, you can import Word documents and work with them. I did my resume with it and it looks OK. It might be OK for something like a newsletter, but you'd have to futz with it.
It might even be better for a news letter because you can export your document in Acrobat format -- it's a great feature.