Re: [Sheflug] RedHat and Script Kiddies

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

On 24 Jan 2001 21:11:50 +0000, Barrie Bremner wrote:
> 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.

I think I'll actually give that a go tomorrow. I've not installed that
up-to-date a version before - the fact it comes with JRE seems to be a
bonus - but almost every Oracle I've ever played with has needed some
tweaking to the install to get it going properly.


> > 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.


I didn't say no commercial future!! But, I don't think necessarily it's
good that the platform becomes the product. People didn't say there was
no commercial future in baked beans when Tescos started knocking them
out at 1p a tin ;) 


>  If Debian was the only distro life might get slightly harder than it is
> right now.


There's plenty of people with commercial interest in Debian, just as
people have interests in many pieces of Linux software. Loads of people
have commercial interests in other open source software, like Apache,
but people only really make money on the really niche re-treads of
Apache. 

Cheers,

Alex.
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