[ILUG] Linux Distro For Oracle 10g

Peter Finch pfinch at compsoc.com
Wed Jan 3 12:14:41 GMT 2007


Hi,

Without starting a flame war I would like some advice on setting up Oracle 
10g on Linux.

I currently have an Oracle 10g cluster set up on 2 Redhat AS machines 
running Oracle RAC. I set up the Redhat AS on these, wasn't invloved in choosing the OS.

I need to set up a third database server and would like some advice on 
what distribution to go with.

Price would not be the deiciding factor.

Oracle recommend Redhat or Suse. I would personally prefere Redhat out of 
the 2. Any other distributions that are not recommended by Oracle wouldn't 
be looked on favourably.

There is a major price difference between Redhat AS and ES, I don't think 
I need AS, but the current RAC servers have AS. Any thoughts on this? Anything 
missing from ES that I would need.

There is also the Oracle Unbreakable Linux, has anyone used this? Is it 
worth trying?

Peter




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