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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.
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.
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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.
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 ?
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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.
I don't have it either, but I'm contemplating an upgrade.
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.
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
Jeff Hunter
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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 ?
If you're going to experiment and you'll want to twiddle with Oracle, I'd just go with Fedora from RH.
Jeff Hunter
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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 ).
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Originally posted by DaPi
(I'll be back in a few days to do a double act with ptreeves ).
As John Stuart would say, "Whaaaaaaa??????"
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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]
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.org
Jeff, brace yourself, I do the newsletter in Word 2000 , and believe it or not, Word Sucks!!!!!!
I'm haven't decided on what to switch to yet. Any ideas?
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Originally posted by gandolf989
Jeff, brace yourself, I do the newsletter in Word 2000 , 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.
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!)
Jeff Hunter
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Originally posted by marist89
(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.
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?
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Only if you can give them your system number.
Jeff Hunter
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