Comments on: Oracle Enterprise Linux available [ for free! ] http://technology.amis.nl/2006/10/28/oracle-enterprise-linux-available/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=oracle-enterprise-linux-available Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:04:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Patrick Sinke http://technology.amis.nl/2006/10/28/oracle-enterprise-linux-available/#comment-3970 Patrick Sinke Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:41:46 +0000 http://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=1388#comment-3970 They hardly bothered to change the filenames!
I hope they did a bit more on optimizing the sourcecode for Oracle and not just a find-and-replace on the Red Hat logo.

]]> By: Mark http://technology.amis.nl/2006/10/28/oracle-enterprise-linux-available/#comment-3969 Mark Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:38:01 +0000 http://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=1388#comment-3969 Surely what Oracle is offering is a distro – Centos and Whitebox do the same (less in fact, they only rebadge and compile binaries, Oracle are adding bugfixes) and we call these distros; regardless of what Oracle are saying, this is an Oracle Linux distro, albeit one that aims to provide binary compatibility with Red Hat.

]]> By: Peter K http://technology.amis.nl/2006/10/28/oracle-enterprise-linux-available/#comment-3968 Peter K Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:58:02 +0000 http://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=1388#comment-3968 Lots of buzz and differring opinions on this one. Is an Oracle-supported RH still RH? In all likelihood, no as the Oracle-supported version will not have any of the RH logos and non-open-sourced components.

If a RH customer switch their support to Oracle, then that RH-install is no longer RH-certified (especially after Oracle provided a patch to patch the OS) so I guess conceptually Oracle is actually doing their own Linux distros although they are copying from RH instead.

It would be interesting to see how many customers will actually switched and also the number of RH/Oracle clients compared to RH only clients.

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