Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4 x64

Anyone check this out? http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux

 

Looks like it's just Red Hat....

 

Hi theZoid,

Yes, I'm considering Oracle Enterprise Linux. You've probably seen my recent posts over in the m6500 thread. I'm wanting to get my feet wet installing Oracle 11gR2 and my other Oracle dev tools in Linux but I wasn't sure which distribution to go with. Seems this is the logical choice for me. I won't be installing it on my m6500 though. Instead I'll pick up another dell studio or something similar to mess around with.

 

OEL is virtually identical to RHEL. I would stay away from it for any desktop use, but it's solid for a server. The problem is that the packages are ancient. No new GUI features, ancient versions of programs, etc.

Fedora will run pretty much identically, and be a much better desktop environment. If you're only using it as a server, OEL/RHEL is a good bet. If you want to do anything other than use it to just host services, I wouldn't recommend it.

 

Pita....do you have an opinion on SLED 11?

 

Never used SLED. It's not bad from what I hear, but SuSE is pretty in bed with Microsoft, so expect it to be infested with Mono.

 

Yes, I know. However, I don't like some have a problem with it, really. Thanks.

 

You also have to have a support contract to get updates but if you just want experience it works fine.

 

Actually i've installed Sled11 on my Lenovo T500 and it's pretty neat/beautiful. Works a bit slower compaired to ubuntu but it looks really polished...very nice distro. I guess i'll just stay with FreeBSD

 

OEL is RHEL, with version of libraries and binaries compatible with Oracle databases and tools.
This being said, i'd go with CentOS, which is basically recompiled RHEL (without RHEL logo etc.) but is completely free (updates).
I work in DHL as linux/unix sysadmin and we use RHEL 5.3 build for the servers running Oracle. On my laptop is CentOS .
Stable, solid distro with no unnecessary gui crap .