Oracle on Linux

[TimHall]

It does seem that people should consider using Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1 for important production environments since it's the only version of Linux out there were you can get complete OS and DB support directly from Oracle.

Oracle are being quite facist about the standards the Linux distribution must conform to in order to get this level of support, so it looks like some of the other distributions that currently get basic support may not be up to enterprise support for some time.

I've had no major problems with Oracle8i or Oracle9i on RedHat 7.1, 7.2 or 7.3, except when O had a dodgy CDROM Drive

Cheers

[hacketta]

I agree the Advanced Server is the way to go for Red Hat shops as Oracle are pushing this now (9i Release 2 is only certfied on this Red Hat release). However, both 81.7 and 9.0.1 are certified on Red Hat 7.1 and I've personally had no issues with getting support from Oracle.

[pando]

not really, Suse SLE 7 is certified for 9.2 as well
Oracle is only going to certify these "Enterprise" linux packages from now on it seems

[default]

Guys,

Thanks for all your input.