I work at school where we run web servers, Oracle database servers, application servers, etc. We have been running most of these on RH systems. Now that RH has moved away from this and to Fedora, we are somewhat concerned. We have been curious about FreeBSD for sometime now, but we are not really sure of its features. Is Oracle officially supported for FreeBSD? Which distro would you all recommend for us to check out and why?

Basically we are looking for stability. Ease of use is nice, but we can get over it for incredible stability.

what about redhat enterprise ???

We've been looking into it and even talked with Dell about setting up a cluster for our database servers (about 6 instances of Oracle 9i). The cost is just too great for that. Even RH Enterprise is a little much for us. Free would be our first choice.

LOL....
yeah, i use redhat 9 (but not for anything as complicated as yourself)
im looking into the fedora project, im expecting it to be similar to redhat, but when i look for information about the distro, all i get is screen shots of Gnome 2.4

but its free

It's actually pretty funny. We're still using RedHat 7.x on two of our database servers. I'm running 9 on one webserver, but that's it. We just need a migration path for when we're ready to move on. I guess Fedora is it until we find something better that is officially supported by Oracle.

Hope these sites help, have to do with FreeBSD and Oracle.

http://www.scc.nl/~marcel/howto-oracle.html
http://www.google.com/bsd?hl=en&lr=&...=Google+Search


More info on BSD:
http://www.freebsdforums.org/

Awesome, thanks for the links!

Ummm, isnt SuSE supported by Oracle ?

We did consider SuSE, but with the Novell buyout we want to wait and see what they do with the distro.

Gentoo supports Oracle. Debian supports it too I beleive, Connectiva, Slackware, all work.

BSD is hardcore.... I found it too intimidating...

I've gotten FreeBSD 5.1 setup and working, but I'm having some issues with X.

Teval, I know you can install Oracle on many different distros, but we want Oracle to support these OSs as well.

http://www.oracle.com/partnerships/h...linux_faq.html

Oracle is fully committed to supporting the Linux operating system. In fact, Oracle was the first commercial database available on Linux. By supporting Linux with Oracle¿s industry leading products, we are enabling customers to deploy enterprise-class solutions on the lowest cost hardware and operating system infrastructure. We believe that Linux is more attractive today than it ever was, as customers are looking for cost effective solutions.

Over the past few years Oracle and its customers have learned a tremendous amount about running Oracle on Linux for enterprise class deployments. Combining this knowledge with the opportunity to drastically reduce IT infrastructure costs has provided the catalyst for Oracle to move to the next step which is to "provide front-line technical support for the Linux operating system" in addition to the Oracle stack. Oracle's delivery of a complete solution including direct technical support of the operating system is critical to our customer's success.

Oracle continues to support and certify key Oracle products with all major enterprise Linux distributions.

Supported distroes

http://otn.oracle.com/tech/linux/htd...0Distributions

o Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS and ES
o UnitedLinux, which includes the following products from Conectiva, SuSE, and TurboLinux
o Conectiva Linux Enterprise Edition powered by UnitedLinux
o SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 (SLES 8) powered by UnitedLinux
o TurboLinux Enterprise Server 8 powered by UnitedLinux

Oracle does not want to support fragmentation in the Linux operating system market. There are an indeterminate number of Linux distributions in the market. Customers have consistently asked for stability, better performance and reliability of the Linux platform as well as enterprise-class support. Oracle cannot be effective in servicing customers if we attempt to support a large number of different Linux distributions.

Not certain the distro section is more qualified for this, but certainly not newbie So, for simply the subject:
Moving to Linux - Distributions

Good Luck.

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