On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:53:27PM +0100, Spider wrote: > begin quote > Yes, this is in fact the thing that made Debian completely unusable at > work (they apply fixes to their main tree) , and also rules out Gentoo.
Ditto. Devs can have gentoo on their workstations (and we do), but for servers we have to use RedHat AS. Although this mainly too is because we are an Oracle shop and Oracle only supports RHAS and Suse. But ebrostig pointed out that Oracle will "never" support Gentoo because it changes too much: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=25080 "Oracle has never and will never certify the databases with Gentoo. The only 2 distributiuons currently certified with Oracle 9i is RedHat Advanced Server 2.1 and SuSE SLES 7.1 ... The reason is very simple. In order to ensure that you are running Oracle on a stable platform, which all of our customers are interested in, we have decided to certify it against distributions that will stay stable for a certain amount of time. Gento is a very dynamic distributions, people can install both stable and unstable packages which will, sooner or later, break Oracle. Besides this, the cost of certifying a distribution is failry high and there is a lot of work involved on our and on the distributions part. It is basically a business justification and we don't want to maintain staff that knows the intricate details of too many distributions. Currently we also do OS support on redHat AS 2.1 in addition to normal Oracle support." I realize Gentoo's management may not have the delusions of grandeur to become an Oracle-certified distro but I'm just laying down the facts. Don.
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