[wplug] which one?

[trquinlan at home.com]

I tried for a while to get Oracle running.  It was very frustrating but I did
get it running.  The documentation that was included was very poor and often it
told me to refer to the on-line docs.  I would go to the support site, look up
what I needed and it would tell me to refer to the printed docs.  Arg!  The
only documentation that was any good was the "unofficial" stuff (newsgroups,
other web sites).

In the end I put Postgres and MySQL on the box.  Postgres for larger things
like setting up a data warehouse (over 2 million rows in the main table).
MySQL for smaller web based apps like online surveys and departmental asset DBs
(less than 10,000 rows).

I don't want to discourage you from trying Oracle (like I said, I eventually
got it working), but do not over look the open source alternatives.  The
support docs are better, and software is just as good if not better.

"Smith, Edward" wrote:

> For a server like this My choice of distros would be Debian or Slackware.
> However for someone new to working with linux I'd stick with RedHat. Their
> new up2date service makes getting security patches a breeze.
>
> As for oracle, if you can avoid it do so. It took me two weeks to get oracle
> to run on my sparc with 256Mb RAM. I'd much rather use PostgreSQL, MySQL ot
> interbase. I only use it because my current client insists that we use it.
>
> -Ed
>
> --
> Edward C. Smith
> Multimedia Programmer
> Interactive Media Corp.
> Butler, PA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryce Lynch [mailto:bryce at telerama.lm.com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 5:55 PM
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: Re: [wplug] which one?
>
> On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, David Kochis wrote:
>
> > Here is a broad question.  I am trying to decide which version of Linux
> > to try.  I have looked into both Red Hat and Caldera.  I will be putting
> > it on a dual pentium server with raid mirroring.  I am not an
>
> I have attempted RAID-1 on Slackware installs, but have had little
> success.  It worked right out of the box with Redhat v6.2.
>
> > administrator or infastructure person.  I am interested in what others
> > have seen and had luck with.  I hope to install Oracle on this server in
> > the near future as well.
>
> Oracle?  Redhat.  It will not function on anything else in my
> experience (Slackware v7.0 and v7.1 gagged and died; Debian gagged and
> died (I don't know if I did anything wrong on that one, though.))
>
> Successful installation:  Redhat v6.2, Oracle 8.1.6.0.0.
>
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