Re: [Sheflug] RedHat and Script Kiddies

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Alex Hudson wrote:
> 
> There are a number of
> good reasons for running redhat on some machines (running commercial
> software, such as Oracle, especially, because I've yet to see a clean
> Oracle install yet), but good reasons for not running it on others.

 Erm, I've got one. I've been running Oracle 8i Enterprise Edition r2
(8.1.6) for donkeys.
No hassles at all. The install guide I used is at
http://www.arsdigita.com/ad-training/acs-install/oracle - however
certain parts are biased to the installation of ArsDigita's community
system.
 
> In a way, I think you're right, although also in a way I hope you're
> not. When the Linux Distribution business starts becoming profitable
> (which I hope it never does!!) 

 But surely we do...no commercial future = not much development, no
commercial distros, little progression on the distro side.
 If Debian was the only distro life might get slightly harder than it is
right now.

 Just my £0.02.

Baz.
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