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dsr_
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While I'm not a fan of Oracle, I have to correct you: Oracle DB runs just fine on Oracle Linux. It installs exactly the same way that it does on RHEL, same checklist.
gaius
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That's kinda my point - why do they ship a Linux distribution without the prerequisites for their flagship product preinstalled?
hildaman
on July 15, 2017
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Probably because they don't want to deal with the overhead of maintaining patches to RHEL source.
gaius
on July 15, 2017
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Then they fully deserve the ridicule. It's like Ford selling you a car but you have to bring your own tyres if you want to drive it away
reitanqild
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Just as long as you follow the defaults without changing
anything
I guess :-)
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