Fedora on a Multi Platform Network???

[hakim]

Hi,

I am new to Fedora, however I became a Linux user in the Redhat 7.2 era. When Redhat began to change their business model I moved to a FreeBSD platform. Now I am introducing Fedora into my network. My plans are to run Oracle 9i on Fedora Core 2. I wanted to use Fedora as my db server because of the unique working relationship Oracle seems to have with Redhat Linux.

This is the basis for my decision, those of you that are very familiar with Fedora please give feedback on whether it is a good idea to use Fedora as a db server or not.

Thanks

PS. The db will not go into production for some time. I figure 6 months is long enough for me to patch any short comings with the OS.

[crackers]

If you want to go into a production environment with Oracle, you should use the OS it supports - which, at this time, is RHAS. Using Fedora as the OS will invalidate any support and they may even laugh at you... :D

[hakim]

If you want to go into a production environment with Oracle, you should use the OS it supports - which, at this time, is RHAS. Using Fedora as the OS will invalidate any support and they may even laugh at you... :D

In otherwords I could do it but at my own risk...however Oracle does not support SuSe and currently SuSe in one of the most commonly used OS platforms for clustered Oracle systems.

Well has anyone had any success running Oracle on Fedora,even if only a test db? In addition I would like to know if anyone is running a network with multiple flavors of Unix based OS and if so how did you fair integrating Fedora into the bunch and what is its main function: mailserver, desktop, db server, webserver, etc???

[Jman]

Fedora webservers are fairly common, as well as MySQL and postgre database servers.

Moved to Servers forum.

[jeru]

If you choose to use fedora, it will work just fine. But you get to do a bunch of kernel tweaking otherwise Oracle will run a lot worse than it normally does.

When your installing you can either edit your /etc/redhat-release to say something like "Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon)", or just use the -IgnoreSysPrereqs. Just look up the kernel paramaters from the oracle knowledge base.

I have used it on fedora as a bunch of tests, but never on a production system with fedora. I always had to ran it on Solaris/SPARC at my old work. (was a sun shop)

[rkl]

Unfortunately, the kernel 2.6 (and other software upgrades) in FC2 seem to mean that you can't use Oracle 9i on FC2. However, I've seen reports on the Web that Oracle 9i + FC1 or Oracle 10g + FC2 may well be feasible, but there's still plenty of hacking around involved.

Because I don't want to move to Oracle 10g, I've stuck with Red Hat 8.0 for the moment, which works fine with 9i (though you still have to mess around during the install). I don't think any of the non-Enterprise Red Hat or FC releases have *ever* gone completely trouble-free through any Oracle installer to be honest. It's their move to the Java-based installers with Oracle 9i onwards that causes the most grief, IMHO - the old curses installer seemed to have a lot less problems.

To be honest, if you know what you're doing, you don't necessarily have to stick with exactly the platforms Oracle supports - what we do is buy the "CD ROM updates and licence to use" annual updates and don't bother with Oracle support at all. Cuts the cost right down - though the new 1 or 2-CPU licence they've introduced (3,500 quid or so per CPU) for Oracle Standard Edition is quite competitively priced now.