Linux any good

[DBA_bloke]

If you're going Oracle, I'd personally use Centos. It's compiled from the source of Red Hat Enterprise Linux so is binary equal and reports itself as RHEL, which Oracle loves.

Luckily it costs a few thousand less than RHEL, weighing in at the massively high price of £0.

Never had any problems installing anything Oracle on it, from the DB through to things like OC4J. Just worked out of the box.

CentOS is, as you say, a clone of RH, with the RH copyrighted stuff (logos, etc.) removed, and is a good choice for testing Oracle with.

Worth pointing out that Oracle now has its own Linux distro, which is based, like CentOS, on RH.

[lilelvis2000]

Cheers for all that. I'll definitely give CentOS a whirl. If it can keep Oracle up and running for longer than five minutes it'll be worth it.

[TheFaQQer]

Cheers for all that. I'll definitely give CentOS a whirl. If it can keep Oracle up and running for longer than five minutes it'll be worth it.

Oracle Unbreakable Linux is free to use, and that's where they will be using as their basis for certification.

[FarmerPalmer]

I have a machine running Suse - and I like it - but mainly I use win-doze.

[DBA_bloke]

Oracle Unbreakable Linux is free to use, and that's where they will be using as their basis for certification.

The first release was a bit wobbly - and slow.

[TheFaQQer]

The first release was a bit wobbly - and slow.

AT least you can get support, though! No more "SUSE 10 isn't supported with eBusiness Suite 11.5.10.2" arguments, even though I know it works.