[NTLUG:Discuss] Oracle on Intel

[Leroy Tennison]

Wayne Walker wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 02:53:27PM -0600, Bob Netherton wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 13:21 -0600, Fred James wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> PS:   Oracle is the only option in this particular case.  What is up for 
>>> grabs, in a limited sort of way, is the hardware and OS.
>>>       
>> At this point I would *STRONGLY* suggest you use CentOS.   It will save
>> you tons of headaches, and the move to RHEL when the time comes will
>> be rather painless.
>>     
> I think that you will need to edit _1_ file on CentOS so that Oracle
> thinks you are on RHEL.  /etc/redhat-release should read:
>
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 4)
>
> rather than
>
> CentOS release 4.4 (Final)
>
> Last time I installed Oracle, that was the only change I made that I can
> remember.
>
>   
>> CentOS and RHEL are genetic twins.  Fedora and RHEL are more like
>> distant cousins.
>>     
> True.
>
>   
>> Since I work for Sun :-)  use our Opteron servers.   They rock :-)
>>     
>
> :)  X4100-M2 is my favorite Sun x86 based server :)
>
>
>   
Concerning RHEL/CentOS versus Fedora, remember that Fedora is "bleeding 
edge - what might (or might not) become future RHEL".  If you tested on 
Fedora and it worked fine but it must run on RHEL in production you're 
going to have the unanswered question "What if it ran on Fedora because 
of some new whiz-bang addition that isn't (or at least yet) in RHEL?"