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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.
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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!)
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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.
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