Red Hat Enterprise Linux Clones - Page 2

technobard · 03-10-2005, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Kernel_Killer

Let me know how White Box works out. I'm having to do about the same thing with a new contract with a University, except I'm going to give Gentoo a whirl in concerns to NIS, Oracle, & SmartBoard.

A little late, but if you're still interested, White Box Linux works very well. You only have to do one thing differently at the start of the Oracle install. Starting with Oracle 10G, the installer actually checks to see if your operating system is on the certified list. If it isn't, you get an error message. You can include a commandline switch to ignore this. The command looks like: ./runInstaller -ignoreSysPrereqs
The only drawback is that I believe it also checks for other prerequisites like kernel parameter changes. Not a big deal if you follow the install instructions.

There are other RHEL clones out there as well. Centos, Taos, etc. Some are for sale or request a donation. White Box is both free and the most popular of the bunch.

Kernel_Killer · 03-10-2005, 07:05 PM

I'll have to check it out some. I've been using Ubuntu for Linux systems that we sell at work. Pretty sweet little distro, and built-in RAID setup in the installer (life saver).