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Oracle Linux

IIRC it's loosely based off of Redhat Enterprise, with some kernel modifications and other changes specifically for running Oracle products. Unless you're working with those products, it's probably not worth fussing with.
 
Yes, It is RHEL w/ Oracle tweaks (good & bad). Makes setting up an Oracle DB server a lil easier, however Oracle support is well... craptastic. I am working on migrating to RHEL for better/official 3rd party applicaton support.

Cheers
 
Without a support license from Oracle, the OS cannot be allowed to have updates.
If you need a good and 'free' version of RHEL, I would suggest using Scientific Linux.
 
Red Falcon said:
Without a support license from Oracle, the OS cannot be allowed to have updates.
If you need a good and 'free' version of RHEL, I would suggest using Scientific Linux.
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Oracle Linux is free and gets updates without a support license, both the UEK and the 100% Redhat compat kernels that can use the EPEL repos.
I'm typing this into Opera on a UEK 64bit VBox VM that gets updated every couple days. No support contract necessary, although you can certainly buy one.
They do sell enhancements like Ksplice, but few of us need 0-downtime application and kernel upgrades like enterprises that are willing to pay for the feature support, tax writeoffs, and depreciation.
It's plain-Jane Redhat - yum and RPM package manager, SELinux, systemd, sysctrl. Pretty much all business. Gnome2, no games, Firefox 10x slow release cycle (Redhat is the upstream). CentOS has more stuff on a base desktop.

OEL makes a nice development platform though, and 1-click install on Oracle's cloud. I imagine it's the best way to go with several Oracle applications, like 11g and Tux, and others.

OVM, their Xen-based T1 hypervisor which is also free across the board, has several OEL templates with packages like 11g Express pre-installed.

A few reasons to give it a whirl.
 
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Oracle updated things this Summer. Use to be you needed a support contract to use the yum repositories - no more. Oracle Linux more or less behaves like Centos now, and seems to be a bit faster on releasing the updates.

I use it for most of my daily driving at this point. They aslo released a oracle-rdbms-server-11gR2-preinstall rpm that does most of the kernel patching, user permissions, and required libraries for a database intall.

Just put a real graphics card into one of my boxes - looking to get the steam beta working on it this weekend/holiday.
 
paret0 said:
Oracle Linux is free and gets updates without a support license, both the UEK and the 100% Redhat compat kernels that can use the EPEL repos.
I'm typing this into Opera on a UEK 64bit VBox VM that gets updated every couple days. No support contract necessary, although you can certainly buy one.
They do sell enhancements like Ksplice, but few of us need 0-downtime application and kernel upgrades like enterprises that are willing to pay for the feature support, tax writeoffs, and depreciation.
It's plain-Jane Redhat - yum and RPM package manager, SELinux, systemd, sysctrl. Pretty much all business. Gnome2, no games, Firefox 10x slow release cycle (Redhat is the upstream). CentOS has more stuff on a base desktop.

OEL makes a nice development platform though, and 1-click install on Oracle's cloud. I imagine it's the best way to go with several Oracle applications, like 11g and Tux, and others.

OVM, their Xen-based T1 hypervisor which is also free across the board, has several OEL templates with packages like 11g Express pre-installed.

A few reasons to give it a whirl.
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Good to know, but I'll stick with Scientific.
 
Quicksilver_ said:
While we're all being bitter, Oracle is the worst DBMS I've ever used.
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Oh, I wouldn't say that. It actually compares quite favorably to MSSQL.

However, no way in HELL I'd ever recommend it though. While the software ranks as "isn't bad", the company's policies and practices sure as hell count as a liability that I don't want to expose MY company to.

As far as Oracle Linux; whatever floats your boat. Myself, I prefer CentOS for all my server needs.
 
I run Oracle ORDBMS TSAM behind 16 Apache and Varnish instances managed with SALT in Oracle Linux on VBoxHeadless in single-instance Solaris 11.1 zones mounted on dedup pools.

And I do it because I want to. :)
 
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