Mladen, Save yourself from RPM hell and try Gentoo. I ended up converting a box at home from RH8 to Gentoo after much prodding by a co-worker or two. I admit it's muuuuch easier to install/build packages under Gentoo because of portage's dependency list that RPMs somehow seem to lack. I gave up trying to install Kino (non-linear editor/video capture) on RH8. On Gentoo, it's "emerge -pv kino" to see what it's going to do, then "emerge -v kino" to actually do it.
And I've mentioned here before that Oracle 9iR2 was an a trouble-free install on it, too! (to help keep this on-topic) I suppose there is a potential argument for SuSE because of the "pseudo-supported by Oracle" thing.... Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA > -----Original Message----- > From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 10:59 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Re: redhat/oracle > > > I'll try my luck with SuSE. It apparently has IBM support. Red Hat is > starting to act badly and brings memories of one former Xenix reseller > which made fortune by selling operating system written by IBM. > > On 2003.11.03 23:24, Jared Still wrote: > > This is news to me. RH will no longer let you download > Linux for free? > > > > hmmm.... > > > > Sure enough, look at http://www.redhat.com/apps/commerce/rhel/ws/ > > > > The cheapest version is $179.00 US. Looks like the next version > > for me will be Gentoo. > > > > Jared > > > > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 17:54, Joe Testa wrote: > > > Well with RH latest ordeal of jumping out of simple ISOs > and basically > > > no more free software, what is oracle's stand on running > on RH?, the > > > paid version only from now on and those linux users out > there, what are > > > WE going to do? > > > > > > Looking to see if i need to spend money before end of year for tax > > > write-off :) > > > > > > joe -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jesse, Rich INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
